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HARRY HOPMAN has to be the marker for real fitness in the modern era.
Their huge photographs stare at each other from opposite sides of the Press Room Bar at the venerable Queen’s Club – men linked by an achievement neither of them could have envisaged.
This is an article about a non-story. It’s a non-story, or would be perceived as such by most media outlets, because it is not about arguments, insults or punch ups nor, thank heaven, about any incidents with guns.
Spread out across the globe from Marseille to Delray Beach and all the way down to Rio, the sixth week of the year on the ATP tour was always going to offer some interesting tennis played out by sparkling seas but what we got was exceptional – a week to remember.
To find the great lion in his lair towards the end of a memorable life, you needed to take the coast road from the Lew Hoad Campo de Tenis near Mijas through the glitz of Marbella
The stats are piling up. Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray 6-2, 6-4 here in the final of the BNP Paribas Masters to claim his sixth ATP Masters 1000 title of the year and his tenth overall for 2015.
It was way past the midnight hour by the time Rafael Nadal failed to beat off the challenge of Stan Wawrinka, the man who had replaced him as French Open champion on the other side of Paris in June.
There is nothing more frustrating than losing a match in which you did lose your serve. But that’s what John Isner can do to you and the big American did it to Roger Federer here in the third round...
It’s been a long trip and it showed. Jack Sock, looking a little fatigued and distracted, went out of the first round of the BNP Paribas Masters here 6-2, 6-3 to the experienced Serb, Victor Troicki.
Out of Africa. And onto the World Stage. Make that ‘stages’ for there have been few more multi-cultural, multi-talented, cross-bred careers than that enjoyed by Yannick Noah.
There are some people – sports stars prominent amongst them – who defy definition. We are currently in a situation where a 20-year-old Australian player called Nick Kyrgios is struggling to combine an outrageous talent with a combustible and highly emotional temperament...
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By the time Roy Emerson had won the Swiss Open title at Gstaad five times in the sixties and returned to lose in the final to Ilie Natsase in 1973, he was falling in the love with the place. For a country boy from the flat Out Back of Queensland, the soaring Alps encased in their mountain greenery which were so visible from his room at the imposing Palace Hotel offered a spellbindingly different view during the summer months.
To mess around with one of Oscar Wilde’s quotes, for Andy Murray to lose one love set to Novak Djokovic may seem unfortunate but to lose two would seem like carelessness. But Murray is not careless. He is one of the least careless people you are likely to meet or watch play tennis.
Maybe I should call it Indian Wells On Steroids in 2015. What a huge enormous site it has become. What a hot place. Hot. Hot. Hot. Not Australian Open hot....But hot and no flies like Oz.
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