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MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Radek Stepanek and Nicole Vaidisova were married Saturday at the Prague Castle’s Saint Vitus Cathedral. Here’s wishing them congrats, best wishes, caviar dreams, happy families and all that good stuff. The wedding photos are lovely: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images Anyone else noticing the adorably dapper kid tossing rose petals in the [...]
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 →The Spanish Armada was in intimidating form against the Czech Republic this weekend in Barcelona, winning the first three matches of the final and claiming the Davis Cup title for the second year in a row. A strong cocktail of red clay, home crowd and team spirit was just what Rafael Nadal needed to perk [...]
Continue Reading →Photo by REUTERS/Albert Gea (SPAIN) via Daylife.com The Davis Cup draw was released on Thursday, and Rafael Nadal and Tomas Berdych will be facing off in the first match of this weekend’s final in Barcelona. Here’s the full schedule: Friday, December 4 Rafael Nadal v Tomas Berdych David Ferrer v Radek Stepanek Saturday, December 5 [...]
Continue Reading →Photographer: Angelo Tonelli A 6 hour five setter in Croatia, a Frenchman gets upset, Roger Federer wins – sometimes Davis Cup Drama is a little. . . predictable. Here’s a quick summary of the action. THE SEMIFINALS Peek-a -boo, I see you! Photographer: Sergio Carmona Spain vs. Israel: Spain is up 2-0 against Israel going [...]
Continue Reading →Davis Cup is the most emotional event in tennis. The pressures of playing for team and country either lift players up to the heights of glory or push them deep into dank pits of shame and despair. Which from a fan perspective, makes Davis Cup damn entertaining, even if you’re watching a fuzzy broadcast of [...]
Continue Reading →Roger & Mirka and Steffi & Andre may have formed the ultimate tennis love-matches, but there are many more tumultuous examples: Kim Clijsters & Lleyton Hewitt, Jimmy Connors & Chris Evert and Radek Stepanek & Martina Hingis broke off their engagements, for example, while Verdasco & Ivanovic, Pennetta & Moya and Stepanek & Vaidisova experienced [...]
Continue Reading →Matt Cronin of tennisreporters.net found the on-court angle to the ever-complicating story of Fernando Verdasco’s love life: TUESDAY, MARCH 31 – Is Fernando Verdasco entering a black widower phase? In Miami, the Spaniard crushed Czech Radek “Black Widower I” Stepanek 6-2, 6-2 to reach the quarters, while at the same time on another court, his [...]
Continue Reading →Fernando Gonzalez went Gonzo against Radek “Worm” Stepanek last night in third round play at the Sony Ericsson Open. Stepanek wasn’t playing to Fernando’s pace and Gonzo decided to light a fire under his ass. (If by “fire” you mean a 120 mph overhead.) But Stepanek got the best revenge – a two set victory. [...]
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