Archive: ivan-lendl
It has happened to us all: that social gaffe that seemingly came out of nowhere but haunts you forever more.
Andy Murray is bent over in a small shaded area at the back of the Stadium Court at Key Biscayne, having just completed one of a dozen one minute blasts at two coaches at the net.
“He’s a One Off.” It’s said about many people with varying degrees of accuracy. But if you spent any time in the company of Vitas Gerulaitis, it did not take long for you to realize that he was an original
HARRY HOPMAN has to be the marker for real fitness in the modern era.
Andy Murray announced on Sunday that Ivan Lendl is rejoining his coaching team, at least for the current grass-court swing–which begins for Murray this week at the AEGON Championships and will culminate at Wimbledon.
Roger Federer is one of only three players in the Open Era (since 1968) to win at least 1,000 singles matches on the ATP World Tour, the first since Ivan Lendl in 1992. He joins Jimmy Connors as the only players to accomplish the feat.
After Tomas Berdych was informed first hand that he could not have Ivan Lendl as his new coach, the world no.7 opted for the next best thing. Following a strong recommendation from none other than Lendl himself, the Czech has appointed Dani Vallverdu to succeed Tomas Krupa.
In November 2000, eight months before he finally won Wimbledon, Goran Ivanisevic made history of a different kind when he became the first player ever to retire from a match due to, in the words of chair umpire Gerry Armstrong, ‘lack of appropriate equipment’. In Brighton, England, he was trailing Hyung-taik Lee 5-7, 7-6, 1-3 when he smashed the third and final racquet he had in his bag.
Four legends holding a total of 17 Grand Slam singles titles between them have arrived in Italy for the Grande Sfida, a new ATP Champions Tour event. John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Goran Ivanisevic and Michael Chang were welcomed by 200 members of the media on Thursday afternoon ahead of the two-day event which kicks off in Genoa on Friday and concludes in Milan on Saturday.
After another disappointment at the US Open, Tomas Berdych has decided the time has come to up his game in the search for that elusive first Grand Slam event title and that could involve a telephone call to the technically available for hire Ivan Lendl.
Ivan Lendl has revealed the main reasons behind ending one of the most effective player/coach relationships that realized the Olympic gold medal before the 2012 US Open and 2013 Wimbledon titles.
Judy Murray has finally made a response to criticism from Boris Becker three years ago that her son Andy would not win a grand slam title until she was on the sidelines. Wimbledon champion Murray won the title at the All England club last summer, under the tutelage of Ivan Lendl, since departed from the coaching team.
Andy Murray, Martina Navratilova and Tim Henman will lead an all-star line up at exhibition matches in three of the country's biggest tournaments as British Tennis stages a second Rally Against Cancer charity event - 'Rally For Bally' - on Sunday 15th June.
While still somewhat shell-shocked by his split last week with coach Ivan Lendl, Andy Murray won't be rushed into picking up another mentor, with the Scot saying he will soon have a month to ponder the pros and cons and make a rational decision.
Former great Mats Wilander has said he will not be part of the coaching future for Andy Murray, with the Swede comfortably settled into a television career with Eurosport and already travelling the world working in the game - perhaps at a much lower stress level.
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