guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Andy Murray seeks to acclimatise ahead of Melbourne challenge• Brother Jamie to join him as he rebuilds doubles reputationIt was Daley Thompson, the double Olympic decathlon champion, who famously used to train on Christmas Day, believing it would give him that slight edge over his rivals. Andy Murray may not be quite so (Read More)
New York Times:
Alexa Glatch and Melanie Oudin lost in straight sets Saturday, giving Italy a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Fed Cup final in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
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guardian.co.uk Sport:
Andy Murray(1) v Fernando Verdasco (4) 6-3, 2-6Andy Murray will bid for his sixth ATP World Tour title of the season tomorrow, after beating Fernando Verdasco to book his place in the final of the inaugural Valencia Open.The British number one will face unseeded Russian Mikhail Youzhny after a battling 6-3 2-6 6-3 victory o (Read More)
Talk Tennis:
Can anybody tell me what the angle should be, between the arm and the racket? It cannot be a straight line from the arm to the racket (180 degrees), right? And 90 deg also sounds too much as someone suggested. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennisNorman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville". If Andre Agassi's Open is (Read More)
Open Court:
Stéphanie Dubois played her second consecutive tournament in France, in Nantes, but against lost in the first round. This time, the No. 6 seed was beaten by Pauline Parmentier of France, 6-4, 6-4. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Toronto's Sharon Fichman played a $25,000 tournament in R (Read More)
Open Court:
Former top-10 player Nicole Vaidisova hasn't been playing much tennis lately - no good tennis, no bad tennis. No tennis.But apparently she and 11-year-oldolder boyfriend Radek Stepanek are still going strong.Here is Vaidisova watching Stepanek play Novak Djokovic in the Basel semi-finals Saturday (that's Daddy Djokovic on (Read More)
FOXSPORTS.com.au | Tennis:
Tennis will bid farewell to one of the greatest stars of the game's recent history when Russian former world number one Marat Safin takes his final bow at the ATP Paris Masters. (Read More)
Talk Tennis:
"LA CERA NON RECHERCHEE A ROLAND GARROSLa CERA, EPO troisième génération, ne sera pas recherchée pendant Roland Garros. Selon la fédération internationalede tennis (ITF), elle n'est pas utilisée dans ce sport. L'Agence française de lutte contre le dopage (AFLD) souhaitaitpourtant la rechercher durant la quinzaine parisienne (Read More)
Open Court:
Davidoff Swiss IndoorsCategory: ATP World Tour 500 Place: Basel, Switzerland Date: Nov 2-8, 2009 Draw Size: S-32 D-16 Surface: Indoor Hard Prize Money: € 1,755,000Saturday, Nov. 6, 2009RESULTSThe only thing that would have made the tennis fans in Switzerland happier than having two hometown Basel boys in the semi-finals of (Read More)
Open Court:
Day 11st rubber: Flavia PENNETTA def. Alexa GLATCH 63 61Glatch, a surprise easy winner over the very competent Iveta Benesova and Petra Kvitova (both ranked a lot higher) in the semi-finals on the road in the Czech Republic in April, found the sand pit they put down in Italy a far different story than a fast indoor hard co (Read More)