April 2011
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ATP World Tour Monte-Carlo Results and Order of... →
Results from today? Nothing too surprising other than Verdasco—usually a great clay court player—going down in round 2. The other noteworthy match of the day was Andy Murray’s win over Radek Stepanek—not because Stepanek was a particularly threatening opponent but because Murray hasn’t won a match since his loss to Djokovic in the Australian Open final back in January....
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ATP World Tour Monte-Carlo Results and Order of... →
Baghdatis, Davydenko, and Youzhny all ousted in the first round. Poor Baghdatis’ career has just gone down the tubes (small comfort that James Blake, another former top 10er, is doing even worse these days?).
Davydenko has always been a red herring if you ask me. He stuck around in the top 5 for so long because he was gaming the system, playing every small tournament he could and racking up...
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Monte Carlo Rolex Masters Draw Preview and... →
The men’s clay court season officially starts tomorrow, though I doubt I’ll have an opportunity to watch any of the matches unless I find them streaming online somewhere. No matter: Nadal is going to cruise all the way to the final here. There is no one in his entire half of the draw that is a remote threat to his game right now, especially on clay. Djokovic dropped out of the...
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“Too many of us drift into health clubs with only the vaguest of notions about...”
– Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men’s Journal
It’s as if Daniel Duane read my post about my miserable gym failure and clarified everything I was doing wrong. This article is exactly what I needed.
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“From there, Borg, the media swarm growing with each match, went on to qualify...”
– Concrete Elbow by Steve Tignor - Deep Tennis: Bjorn Tries to Come Home
This whole article is priceless.
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LIKE A FOOL
I’m limping out of my second tennis lesson last night and a fellow beginner, for whom this was his first class, says to me: “I thought it would be more aerobic!” As in, dude didn’t break a sweat. Not that I broke a sweat either… but I did pull a hamstring. At my second lesson! I’m such an idiot.
Let me back up.
At my first lesson last week, I was a little nervous/excited. Not that the...
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“We could just say,” Hickey writes, “’OK, you right, art is bad, silly, and...”
– Concrete Elbow by Steve Tignor - Not So Petty Questions
It takes him a while to warm up but Tignor gets into some interesting ideas about tennis.
Just yesterday I went to Twitter and asked around for tennis blogs that favored good writing over aggregating news or photos of shirtless players, and...
COME ON! (fist pump)
My wife ran four miles on Sunday. Not as part of a race or anything, but because it was Sunday and Sundays are her days for long runs.
These are words I would not have said a few months ago, but in three short months she has become a serious runner. She’s running a 10k next month and a half-marathon in the fall. It’s inspiring!
A few weeks ago we were in Palm Springs and I had the...
