Tennis News, Notes, Nets, Lets and Post-it’s

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 27th December 2013

Tennis News, Notes, Nets, Lets and Post-it's |

Andrea Petkovic tells the Australian that she admired Serena Williams growing up. “When Serena won her first slam I was not playing yet on the women’s tour. She was my idol and I really liked her and admired her because I thought she brought something new to tennis. She brought power and entertainment. She was rebellious to me somehow, and I really liked that.” . . Sports On Earth named former No. 1 Andy Roddick one of the best sports presenters on television. They wrote “Of all the analysts on “Fox Sports Live” on Fox Sports One, Roddick has proven to be the smartest, most clever and most insightful. You can also tell he’s actively attempting to improve — the difference between when the channel launched and now is dramatic.”. . . Maria Sharapova hit twice in Brisbane on Thursday so she appears good to go at the tournament. . . Tennis Australia chief executive Craig Tiley says it’s important for tennis traditional powers to stay in the elite pro mix: “Countries like the old Eastern bloc countries and China are producing players. The breadth of the competition is more than what it was,” You talk about Spain having the most players (14) in the top 100, but there is no one who is following on from (Rafael) Nadal as an obvious Grand Slam contender. So the days of the domination of the US and Australia, those days are gone… Tennis needs the US to do well. Tennis needs the Grand Slam countries to do well.” . . . Vera Zvonareva was granted a wild card to play at the Rio Open Feb 15-23. . . Croatian 15-year old Ana Konjuh got a wild card into Auckland. . .checking around the globe we found this. Bob Bryan and his beautiful family with the newest addition Bobby , jr . Already heading home from the hospital. Instagram has a great shot of our buddy Sven Groeneveld being “photobombed” by Maria Sharapova on his credential shot. It’s a classic. We got a postcard from Dusan Vemic he is in Moscow with project “KP” training for oz. they better hurry and get acclimated. Donald Young is in Doha looking forward to a great season. Roger Federer said he and the twins were excited to be big sisters in 2014. He didn’t say the details. Ok. But London oddsmakers could have fun with this one. Roger and Mirka had twins. Rogers sister Diana has twins. So what are the odds that there’s more twins coming?

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