Archive: paul-annacone
Fritz faced friendly fire today from buddy Reilly Opelka fighting off a match point in the second-set tie break to reach the BNP Paribas Open second round with a 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory.
About thirteen years ago, I was sitting in Charlie Pasarell’s front row box at Indian Wells. He’d been kind enough to offer me the seats for a couple of hours because, well, that’s the kind of tournament host Charlie was. On the stadium, Roger Federer was wearing baby blue and having a rough go of it, so I had a few moments to observe the crowd.
Australian Open 2014. Melbourne . It's hot and getting HOTTER ! If you are in Melbourne you know its a real scorcher. We called it over the week end. Didn't even need to check the farmers almanac we checked out the weather on the iPhones.
Tennis Channel is expanding Hall of Famer Jim Courier's roster of tournament assignments to include the Australian Open, starting with the 2014 edition in Melbourne. Courier will have a nightly presence during the network's two-week coverage, which begins Monday, January 13...
...even though he worked with her for five weeks during the off-season, coach Paul Annacone will not join Sloane Stephens in Australia. She will be coached by her hitting partner, Andrew Fitzpatrick.
Roger Federer experimented with a new larger Wilson frame last summer before switching back to his tried and true usual smaller frame at the US Open. But during the off season, he tried out a new 98-inch Wilson racket and now is committed to playing with it during the Australian summer.
It's that stealthy time of the year. Everyone's somewhere doing something. Some off season! Its the busiest 5 weeks of the year. Re: the mighty Roger Federer. ... The guess around here was Dubai.
Sloane Stephens had her best season ever working under USTA Player Development coach David Nainkin, finishing the year at No. 12 and reaching the second week of every Grand Slam event.
Roger Federer will let the mental and physical aches from his 7-5, 6-3 World Tour Finals semi-finals loss to Rafael Nadal heal while he plots strategy for a return to full form next season.
Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic, who is dealing with a left foot injury, says main goal is to "play healthy for Serbia in Davis Cup final." . . . Ryan Harrison caught viral pneumonia while playing in Asia and when he arrived in Vienna to play the ATP tournament there he couldn't get out of bed.
Roger Federer’s first ever sporting hero was Boris Becker and the Swiss remembers being six years-old and crying when his idol lost in the 1988 Wimbledon final against Stefan Edberg.
Former top 10 Joachim "Pim-Pim" Johansson qualified for the Stockholm Open, his first ATP event in two years. . . One prominent Swiss tennis writer speculated that the reason why Roger Federer ended his relationship with coach Paul Annacone...
Roger Federer had decided the time had come to split with coach Paul Annacone before he even set foot onto the plane taking him to China for his latest disappointment in the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
Roger Federer will attempt to rescue his season and qualify for the World Tour Finals in next month without longtime coach Paul Annacone at his side after the Swiss on Sunday announced his split from the American.
Malibu Racquet Club’s head coach, Craig Cignarelli, along with former ATP pro Lester Cook, are running a summer workout for some of America’s elite juniors and college players
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