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Mondays With Bob Greene: Rafa is playing even more aggressively this year
Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell and the Bulgarian Open.
Beginnings and Endings For Jim Courier
In the Tuesday, March 24 edition of “Tennis History Tuesday” we note a significant day in tennis history for Jim Courier. As excerpted from my book ON THIS DAY IN TENNIS HISTORY ($19.95, New Chapter Press, www.tennishistorybook.com), today marks the 18th anniversary of Courier winning the biggest title of his young career back in 1991 at then branded Lipton Championships (now the Sony Ericssson Open).
Megaphotopost of the ATP Tour
You can view the following photos of Carlos Moya, Nicolas Almagro, Florian Mayer, Juan Ignacio Chela, David Nalbandian and Gael Monfils.
Mondays With Bob Greene: This is unbelievable, to be in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam
Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the first week of the Australian Open.
Australian Open Days 5 and 6 Roundup
Fernando Gonzalez prevailed an epic match at the Margaret Court Arena against Richard Gasquet. Gasquet won easily first two sets and had match point in a tie-break of the third set – risked a backhand return then, and the ball landed on the tape. Gonzalez won third set on 7th setpoint.
Australian Open Round Two Results
The oldest participant of the tournament, 36 year-old Fabrice Santoro amazed the spectators once again overcoming 5-7 7-5 3-6 7-5 6-3 Philipp Kohlschreiber, 11 years in his junior.
Australian Open Round One Results
16 year-old Bernard Tomic (No. 768) made the biggest surprise of the first day, eliminating Potito Starace 7-6 1-6 7-6 7-6. Tomic who has been playing just second tournament on the main level (debuted two weeks ago in Adelaide) becomes the youngest player who won a match at the Australian Open (16 years and 103 days), and the second youngest who appearanced in the main draw of this tournament.
Mondays with Bob Greene: I’m chasing a lot of records
Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the Medibank Open and the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand.
2nd Round Results From Sydney and Auckland
In the battle of the 20-year-olds, Juan Martin del Potro survived the attack of the rising star Ernests Gulbis of Latvia. Despite high percentage of the first serves, there were 5 breaks of serve in the first set. Gulbis led 4:3 in the second set but characteristically for himself, lost concentration and 9 out of the last 10 games of the match.
Mondays With Bob Greene: I am like a machine, fit for every match
Bob Greene, the esteemed former Associated Press tennis writer, wraps up the week that was in international tennis with his “Monday’s With Bob Greene” column – a revival of his popular weekly feature at the AP. This week Bob summarizes the Davis Cup and the Dunlop World Challenge.
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