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Shirtless Tommy Robredo, cranky Dinara Safina, Coach Peter Lundgren nursing a (possible) frisbee injury – you just never know who or what you’ll run into at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Here are some random scenes from Sunday. Safina seemed to be working on an abbreviated service motion with her coach. He’d put a couple [...]
Continue Reading →The Andy Murray vs. Robin Soderling quarterfinal was the most dramatic singles match in the desert on Friday. After surviving four break points in his first service game, the Swede went on a tear. It took Murray most of the first set just to win a single game. Things got interesting in the second, when [...]
Continue Reading →Thursday was a busy day at Indian Wells, with the women finishing up their quarterfinals and two men booking spots in the semis. Here’s the report going into the weekend: Ivan Ljubicic backed up his big Round of 16 win over Novak Djokovic with a three set victory over Juan Monaco in Thursday’s quarterfinal. Before [...]
Continue Reading →Indian Wells is getting woozy. Big wins, puzzling losses, falling seeds, big match hangovers. Makes me glad I’m not a betting woman. Here’s a quick report on Wednesday’s action at Indian Wells. Grrr. Marcos Baghdatis failed to follow up his career best win over Roger Federer, losing to Tommy Robredo 5-7, 6-0, 4-6 in his [...]
Continue Reading →I admit I had a hard time following all of the tennis action from the past week. We had the men and women in Brisbane, Roger and Rafa (and the mighty Kolya!) in Doha, Peer protests in New Zealand, an ATP tourny in India, Laura Robson making Andy Murray look good at the Hopman Cup [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images via Daylife Two things we know without a doubt about the Spanish Davis Cup Team: They’re unbeatable at home (final score after Sunday’s dead rubber play: 5-0, Spain.) The U.N. is holding the team in a bomb shelter, in the event a nuclear apocalypse necessitates that a few choice human [...]
Continue Reading →“Janko Tipsarevic Unplugged” says the ATP tour. Isn’t Janko Tipsarevic always unplugged? Yes, he does say he hates Novak Djokovic – and says Rafael Nadal chokes. Watch the video and find out why. Janko’s the guy you want to invite to your next dinner party, right? And here’s a nice one of Tommy Robredo, his [...]
Continue Reading →Czech it out! Photographer: Paul Zimmer Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek took care of business on Saturday, pairing up after their epic five setters the day before to beat Marin Cilic/Lovro Zovko in the doubles: 6-1 6-3 6-4. The Czech team is now 3-0 over the Croatians, and is guaranteed a spot in the Davis [...]
Continue Reading →The men put in a good day’s work on Day Four of the US Open on Thursday, including some solid wins by Tommy Haas, Fernando Verdasco, Novak Djokovic and Tommy Robredo. Here are some of our snapshots. *fellow bloggers are more than welcome to use our photos, please link us if you do.
Continue Reading →I hate to be a Negative Nellie, but so far I’m unimpressed with this year’s US Open Players’ Party. Where is everyone? (And by everyone I mean Federer, Nadal, Sharapova, Roddick, etc.) Maybe we’ll get video of Nole pole dancing with the Bondarenko sisters tomorrow. . . until then, here are some photos of Venus, [...]
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