Archive: February 2012
Markes Wins Third-Round Thriller in Three Sets Over Seventh Seeded Eddie Myers of Australia
I'm very disappointed that my ankle injury is preventing me from playing the BNP Paribas Open this year.
The cutoff for seeding here is around #100, so you can imagine what the qualifying is like! We aren't even going to try to talk about the qualifying final; we'll just say that the qualifiers were #1 qualifying seed Paula Ormaechea, #2 Sesil Karatancheva, #4 Yaroslava Shvedova and #7 Ines Ferrer Suarez.
Ksenia Pervak's steady climb seemed to have hit a bit of a stall, but maybe this will get her going again. She defends her points, and is probably one win away from the Top Forty. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova wasn't defending anything, but her Top Fifteen ranking is nonetheless in some danger.
British captain Leon Smith doesn’t need reminding his prime asset is Andy Murray but after serving as the world no.4’s junior coach for five years he knows him well enough to demand an early indication about availability about for the next round in April, which could put his side within one match of a return to the elite World Group.
After sorting out her coaching situation - she stays with father Piotr - and enjoying a golf tournament weekend with boyfriend Rory McIlroy in the Gulf, Caroline Wozniacki has turned her attention back to tennis for the first time since losing her No. 1 ranking.
Rafael Nadal will meet with Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy today and part of their discussion could be about his feelings that there is a general campaign in France to discredit Spanish athletes by implying their success is due to doping.
French Davis Cup captain Guy Forget insists he will not fall into the same trap as Switzerland did over the weekend against the United States and is looking for an outdoor venue, preferably warm but most importantly at sea level, to stage the World Group quarter final against Jim Courier’s team.
The ITF’s Davis Cup Supporter Survey which is designed to learn more about the people who make Davis Cup special - the fans - will close on February 22nd. The ITF is encouraging all Davis Cup fans to spare a few minutes and complete the survey on the official Davis Cup websites.
The LOCOG and the ODA have announced the completion of Eton Manor, the venue for Wheelchair Tennis during the London 2012 Paralympic Games.The area was previously the site of an old sports club and then was used as a practical training center for construction workers, many of whom went on to obtain jobs in the Olympic Park.
Japan's Kei Nishikori announced on Monday that his Uniqlo gear will go on sale later this year. Nishikori, who became the first Japanese male to reach the Australian Open quarters in 80 years last month, has received a torrent of publicity.
One out of two isn't bad, right? That might be the moral of Monday's exhibition doubles match. Gael Monfils, who had played out the dead rubber of the France versus Canada Davis Cup tie, was able to play. But Milos Raonic, who had not been able to play reverse singles in Canada, pulled out.
Start with an explanation: All the rankings estimates in our Preview were wrong. The ATP took off Rotterdam and the related events last week. This week, Memphis comes off. We did not know this, and it threw our calculations out the window.
Ricardo Mello just fell to #123. This won't put him back in the Top Hundred, but it might arrest the decline....
Check out this video of professional tennis coach Sven Groeneveld making some smooth shots with a tennis racket that is probably older than he is.
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