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Sweet relief. It was all over Roger Federer’s face (and probably mine) during this on-court interview with Jim Courier after Fed beating Gilles Simon in five sets. I like Jim’s work, but I have to agree with this comment by “Trippylaud” on Youtube: Courier: “Can you remember the last time you lost in a 3rd [...]
Continue Reading →Roger Federer of Switzerland reacts after winning against Gilles Simon of France at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne January 19, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray (AUSTRALIA – Tags: SPORT TENNIS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE) Oh my goodness! No wonder I slept like crap last night. I just must have known something incredible was [...]
Continue Reading →France vs. Serbia in the 2010 Davis Cup final. It’s the last tennis that really matters this season, and boy, will it matter to 16,000+ people at the Belgrade Arena, the second largest capacity tennis venue in the world. France has brought the Cup home nine times, tied third for the most titles in the [...]
Continue Reading →Andy Murray lost to Stanislas Wawrinka in the third round of the US Open on Sunday: 7-6, 6-7, 3-6, 3-6. It wasn’t a major upset – Stan had beaten Murray a handful of times, once on hardcourt – but it was a Major upset. I watched live-and-in-person a few weeks ago as Andy Murray beat [...]
Continue Reading →French tennis player, Gilles Simon, is mounting a comeback after a season of struggle, injury, and. . .making a baby. After taking out Philipp Kohlschreiber in five sets on Friday, he told reporters that he had become a father just the day before. His girlfriend, Carine Lauret, gave birth to son Timothée in a French [...]
Continue Reading →The players partied on the helipad of the Shanghai Hilton to celebrate this week’s Masters tournament. They managed not to look too grumpy, and Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal even dressed up a little: Marat, do you really want to wrap up your final season wearing plaid flannels? Come on now: That’s more like it!
Continue Reading →It’s always fun to hear what the players have to say, especially in the pressure cooker of a Grand Slam tournament like Roland Garros. Here are some of my favorite quotes so far: Marat Safin, on being booted out of his last Roland Garros: MARAT SAFIN: Well, as you can see, I didn’t draw the [...]
Continue Reading →FRENCH OPEN DAY 1: The brick orange clay, the renewed fire (and fear) in the players’ eyes, new drinking games based on Brad Gilbert-isms – what’s not to love about a Sunday start at Roland Garros? Here are some random musings from the debut day on Paris clay: 1. Sad face: 2004 champ Gaston Gaudio [...]
Continue Reading →A quick detour onto grass while we wait for the Roland Garros draw to come out later today. (You can catch it live, at 11:30am, Paris time, at rolandgarros.com (anyone else relieved to be done with that awful Madrid Masters website?) The following video is an ode to Rafael Nadal disguised as a promotional video [...]
Continue Reading →Tell me fellow book worms, did this edition of the ATPs “Favorite Things” depress you at all? Because besides a Dan Brown novel every now and then, most of our favorite tennis players don’t read anything but draw sheets (no, wait, that’s what their coaches are for.) At least the Eastern Europeans are keeping literature [...]
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