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These last 4 weeks in the states consisted of 2 tournaments we have had a lot of court time with the players that are on our tea, between Darren Cahill Mats Merkel and myself we handle many players.
Sounds like everyone headed to the California desert to check out the action at the BNP Paribas Open. Me? I'm holding down the fort.
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?
It was another great experience to be in Las Vegas. Between visiting the Gym of Gil Reyes and being on court with Gil Reyes.
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.
Video courtesy of the head tennis coach at Adidas, Sven Groeneveld... Hope the 10sBalls.com fans enjoy watching it!
El video es cortesia de el señor Sven Groeneveld... Queremos que los fanaticos de tennis y 10sBalls.com lo disfruten!
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.
Sven Groeneveld en Las Vegas entrenando con los tenistas de Adidas. / Sven Groeneveld in Las Vegas with the Adidas tennis team.
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.
First Mirka had to dust the red clay of frebourg off of her man. Then being a player herself she
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