“10s Whenever” Newsletter, Vol. 72 – Barcelona and Bucharest

Written by: Staff on 26th April 2012

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Newsletter, Vol. 72 – Barcelona and Bucharest

26 April 2012

Rafa’s still on it on the red clay courts of Barcelona, taking out Robert Farah today. The last two clay court tournaments are really boding well for the King of Clay and he will surely stay true to the title. Murray has made it to the quarter finals as well pummeling his opponents. 10sballs.com’s friend Xavier Malisse has made it to the singles quarterfinals in Bucharest taking down his opponents with great poise. Sam Stosur beat Julia Goerges making it into the quarterfinals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix following behind Petra Kvitova and Li Na. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter and please don’t forget to forward it to your tennis loving friends!

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The Bad News: The Isner Era No More

OK. You had enough time to dwell on the good news about John Isner’s great performance the last couple of months. But the outlook for the rest of the American men in the top 100 or anywhere on the horizon is not so encouraging. In fact, it’s disastrous.Let’s go down the line. Mardy Fish had a great 4 1/2 months last year from the French right through Tokyo in the first week of October. I have written here on a number of occasions of how much I liked seeing his style continue to be effective in today’s power hungry men’s game. In those 4 1/2 months, Mardy was tremendous. Go to the ATP site and you’ll see he picked up tons of points at Roland Garros, Wimbledon, Atlanta and Los Angeles before going finals and semis in Montreal and Cincy. [Read More]

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Tennis, Tea and Tradition Once Again in Ojai

Diehard Southern California tennis fans have a unique love affair with every last weekend in April. For 112 years this time of year has marked the playing of The Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament, an important Southern California sectional event for open, collegiate and junior players. The Ojai also serves as the Pac-12 Championships with the men moving to a team dual-match format this year with the women staying an individual event. For the first time this year, 10sBalls.com is proud to be a sponsor of this Southern California tennis treasure, which started in 1896 some 90 miles west of Los Angeles. [Read More]

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Interview with Esther Vergeer in Amsterdam – Edited Transcript

Question:
How is your training going [at the Frans Otten Stadion, Amsterdam]?

Esther Vergeer:
At the moment I’m preparing for a big tournament, the Grand Slam, at the beginning of June, and this is a great facility, because it has indoor courts for when it rains and the sort of clay that are very similar to Roland Garros [French Open] and as a tennis player you would like to prepare [on the surfaces] that you’re going to play. Of course I have my specific programme for tournaments, but then I also have a time where I can work on my physical fitness, my mobility training and my mental training. [Read More]

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Lessons from the Spanish

In my recent travels, I’ve had the chance to learn from in-depth contact with the “Spanish System”. Spain’s current dominance in futbol and tennis has to make one think about what they possibly do to continually churn out top level athletes. On top of an obsessive mentality to have fun and enjoy the sport all-day everyday, there is a set system of technical skills that are literally drilled by basket into every athlete everyday. This includes footwork to a very exacting degree, and stroke mechanics that are very basic but lead to more advanced methodologies of course. The advantage of having this system is that at any given point, the budding athlete always has a solid foundation to fall back on. If you follow Rafael Nadal, we all know about his brute ability as an athlete. [Read More]

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