Dr. Chiro News
Ferrer came into Miami with a 19-2 record with his only losses to Djokovic at the Australian and a bad loss to Istomin at Indian Wells, but with 3 tournament trophies for his trouble.
I promised you a little review of my trip to Indian Wells. As I said in my report on the finals, I got sidetracked by that virus going around Coachella Valley during the tournament.
As wonderful as Federer played, it is all the more amazing that he was able to deal with his wife and twin girls having this virus while he was playing the tournament.
Here are some clips from 10sChiro on the 10sBalls youtube channel in slow motion.
I would keep an eye on Sara Errani and she lost to American Vania King in straight sets today. Perhaps the transition from the clay to the hard courts in such a short time had something to do with that.
Okay, the men's singles draw came out yesterday and the women have actually already started their main draw matches today. 96 players in each field. How do you make sense of it?
As a coach, I look for more specific details that will enable me to help my player. I want to know if they are missing forehands or backhands. In scouting a future opponent, I want to know where they are going to serve in a specific situation
It was a great showing for Federer, winning the Dubai final in straight sets against a seemingly streaking Andy Murray, just having knocked off Djokovic in straight sets in the semis.
We had the two semifinals in Dubai early this morning. This is where we get to find out what kind of shape Federer, Djokovic and Murray are really in and whether or not Del Potro is ready to go another step towards regaining the form he achieved winning the US Open in 2009.
Season III. It's time to return to the little tutorial about the "Tennis Seasons" that I started in Part I of this little series. We got through the first 14 weeks of the year with the 6 weeks of the Aussie Season and 8 weeks of the Season 2. Season 3 starts the spring clay court season with events in Casablanca and Houston and ramps right up to a Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo the third week of April.
The only real question today was who would be the fourth to join this awesome trio. Murray struggled a bit with Berdych giving up 2 breaks on 8 chances, but he controlled the match making 64% of his first serves and winning 14 of the 24 second serve points where he got the serve in.
The top half of the draw in Dubai went completely according to seed today and is likely to do so right up to the final, unless Berdych somehow gets to Murray. The big Czech has lost just 7 games in 2 matches and holds a 3-1 career record against Andy, but he won't be able to save 11 out of 12 break points against the Scotsman as he did today against Lukas Lacko.
The level of the examination being administered in Dubai this week goes up significantly tomorrow. Mardy Fish was the only seed not to make the quarterfinals, losing to Mikhail Youhzny.
You probably thought there were just 4 seasons a year, seemingly even less if you live in someplace like Southern California. But the professional tennis tour has more seasons than that. Those seasons are about the surfaces and conditions and the points, the damn points.
How is the Federer/Davydenko match like Safarova/Bartoli? Well, I've been watching a little tennis the last couple of days on TennisTV from Doha, Rotterdam and Sao Paulo.
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