Archive: max-mirnyi
Roger Federer went back to the future with a dominating vintage win over hammered Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 on Monday to start the second week with a fourth-round victory. The Swiss played plenty of serve-and volley the day after the birthday of new coach Stefan Edberg...
Roger Federer looks like he is having a blast playing doubles with Nicolas Mahut.
The Mark Knowles Celebrity Tennis Invitational, November 22-23 at the Atlantis Tennis Centre on Paradise Island, has an interesting mix of players including Sabine Lisicki, Taylor Townsend, Lucie Safarova, Max Mirnyi, Denis Kudla, Jesse Levine Jean-Julien Rojer and Oliver Marach . The event raises funds supporting a range of local charities on the islands. . .
30 is the new 20 In tennis. Yes, that's right. The players conditioning , the equipment ( shoes and rackets and STRINGS ) the trainers , physios , fancy tapings , hyperbaric chambers , ice baths , blood spinning , cat scans / MRI. And who knows what else keeps them playing ?
David Ferrer was determined not to have yet another of his feeble matches against Rafael Nadal. He didn't exactly dominate, but he wasn't broken until he served for the match the first time -- and, having been broken, at once broke back and served it out.
As matches go, this was pretty dull. As drama goes, Novak Djokovic is doing his best. Rafael Nadal doesn't need much more to clinch the year-end #1, but Djokovic continues to apply all the pressure he can -- not just winning but winning easily.
Serena Williams the queen of ladies tennis. She holds the titles this year. Heaps of them.
Roger Federer is such a dominate force one often wonders , how does he do it ? What powers him and those running down the line cross courts ?
This was a day of upsets, and for a little while, it looked as if our #1 seed might be one of them. He survives -- but it doesn't do him any good in the race or rankings yet; this is too small to count.
Roger Federer and Ze Zhang. What is that you say. ? It's a " wildcard " doubles team this week in the Shanghai Masters event. . Yikes.
August 14th the Belarus Post will be issuing stamps with the photo of Max Mirnyi
The ITF announced that the new ITF Board of Directors for the period 2013-15 has been elected at the 2013 ITF Annual General Meeting in Paris, France on Friday 12 July.
France’s Alize Cornet, thinks she’s on the verge of being an elite player again but realizes something is missing
Toni Nadal, says he will be fine if Roland Garros decides to bump up Rafael’s seeding. "If they choose to do it, will be good for Rafa and it doesn’t not seem bad to me," he said. . .
Speedy recovery wishes to Kristen Flipkens who had some sort of stomach disorder take her out of Stuttgart. Hope she got to drive a porsche or two first....
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