Tennis Tour Tidbits – Radwanska, Federer, Roddick, Murray, and more…

Written by: Staff on 15th July 2013

Tennis Tour Tidbits - Radwanska, Federer, Roddick, Murray, and more...

epa03530777 Andy Murray of Great Britain returns a shot, during a practice session on the Rod Laver Arena center court at Melbourne Park, ahead of the start of the 2013 Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, in Melbourne, Australia, 11 January 2013. Play starts 14 January 2013. EPA/BARBARA WALTON |

Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Doubles Final to be played ton Monday at 10:30 am. Singles champion Nicolas Mahut will return to the club one more time to play in the doubles final. He and Roger-Vasselinn will face the American duo of Tim Smyczek and Rhyne Williams at 10:30 am on Monday, July 15. Admission to the match is free to the public. . .

Ion Tiriac, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, had this to say about his extensive career. “Once you finish, [there] always is going to be somebody who is jumping higher, and running faster or [can] hit the ball harder,” Tiriac said. “If I look over my shoulder, I promise I don’t regret one thing with my life, being a tennis player, a coach, a manager, a promoter, the way it was.”. . .

Another Hall of Fame inductee, Martina Hingis, offered praise for her mother and coach, Melanie Molitor. “I was born behind the Iron Curtain [Slovakia], and my mother wanted to tear the curtain apart for me. That is the reason I played tennis as a little girl. In 1980, my mother didn’t have many choices for giving me a better life and a chance for freedom to see the world. She chose the game of tennis as a way out of the world and the prison we lived in, so thank you, mom.” Five-time Grand Slam champion Hingis isn’t ready to being compared to Aga Radwanska: “I’d like to see her win a Grand Slam before she’s completely compared to me.” . . .

Washington Kastles coach Murphy Jensen said this about doubles standout Leander Paes to the New York Times. “He’s the Roger Federer of World Team Tennis. He’s the closer. He’s the meat and potatoes, the ham sandwich and the scrambled eggs. The guy just has so much to give the game, and the atmosphere and the format out here perfectly suits that type of player.” . . .

Andy Murray will surely earn more off court after winning Wimbledon, but $90-260 million dollars more as some British papers suggested might be a stretch. “The numbers that get put out around a big media moment almost always are wrong, because they’re just guesses,” sports business writer Richard Gillis told the WSJ. . .

Andy Roddick won’t attend the US Open: “I don’t know that I’ll ever be the guy who needs to go to a tournament to be seen and to spectate,” said Roddick, who by that time will be a full time general sports broadcaster for FoxSports. “I feel like I can accomplish spectating from home. I’ll certainly go back at some point, but I think the last thing that has been a priority on my itinerary this year is going to watch tennis tournaments live.” . . .