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I got home late from work on Tuesday night and had the Wawrinka vs. Querrey five-setter on my DVR. No wonder I’m going to bed after 2 am. I’m on West Coast time – Rafa and F-Lo finished a whole four hours ago. So please excuse the wacky wrap. I’m in free association mode, tonight. [...]
Continue Reading →Just a quick celebration of Day 5 at the US Open. Old Earl kept a low profile on Friday, and we were treated to some really entertaining tennis. I loved the night match between Rafael Nadal and Denis Istomin – a three-setter with some crackling tension and cracking shot making. How about this new 134 [...]
Continue Reading →Behold, this weekend’s champions. For the first time in the 84-year history of what is now known as the Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, both the singles (Querrey) and doubles (Bryan Bros) champions were successful in defending their titles. Sam Querrey beat Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6, 6-3 in Sunday’s final. He saved a match point [...]
Continue Reading →Lletyon Hewitt said it, I didn’t: “Roger’s a hell of an opponent; his grass-court record speaks for itself. Any time you play Roger on a grass court you know you’re in for a hell of a battle and I was lucky to get out of today’s match.” World No. 32 Lleyton Hewitt defeated Roger Federer [...]
Continue Reading →The truth gas they’re pumping into the Roland Garros press room seems to be working. The players were in a sharing mood on Tuesday – for the most part. Rafael Nadal made a winning debut on Court Suzanne Lenglen on Tuesday, taking out French teenager and World No. 655, Gianni Mina 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. But [...]
Continue Reading →Sorry, everyone, off-court activities here at GTT this weekend delayed my weekend winners post. But I couldn’t let another day go by without congratulating this motley crew. Sam Querrey won the battle against dope-tainted Wayne Odesnik in the Houston semis, but he lost the war to Juan Ignacio Chela, who beat the American 5-7, 6-4, [...]
Continue Reading →Tennis Channel’s James LaRosa wrote a hilarious – and spot-on – letter to Wayne Odesnik, the American who’s playing this week’s U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championships in Houston despite pleading guilty to smuggling Human Growth Hormone into Australia earlier this year (the ITF hasn’t handed down a punishment yet.) Here’s an excerpt of LaRosa’s letter: [...]
Continue Reading →REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci via Daylife If the tennis season revolved around February’s South American clay court circuit, 30-year-old Juan Carlos Ferrero would be its Roger Federer. He beat Davis Cup teammate David Ferrer in three sets in Sunday’s Copa Telmex final in Buenos Aires, making it his ninth straight match victory and second title in as [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s a quick peek at what’s going on in the tennis world this weekend. In Paris we have the WTA’s Open GDF Suez, a Premier-level event without the Williams sisters, Clijsters or Henin. It’s nice to see Melanie Oudin taking advantage of both the draw and the confidence she gained last weekend in Fed Cup; [...]
Continue Reading →By now, all of our favorite players have taken a turn or two on the Australian Open catwalk. And a few have already been “Auf’ed” – though not for their tennis fashion sense. We’ll take care of the rest. . . THE WOMEN Maria Sharapova wasn’t around for very long, but her dress certainly made [...]
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