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WTT . . . at a Glance
WTT . At a glance World TeamTennis Pro League presented by Advanta Dates: July 5-25, 2007 (regular season) Finals: July 27-29, 2007 – WTT Championship Weekend in Roseville, Calif. July 27 & 28 – Conference Championship matches July 29 – WTT Finals What: 11 co-ed teams comprised of professional tennis players and a coach. Where: Boston Lobsters................ Boston, Mass. Delaware Smash.............. Wilmington, Del. Houston Wranglers ........... Houston, Texas Kansas City Explorers....... Kansas City, Mo. Newport Beach Breakers.. Newport Beach, Calif. New York Buzz ................. Schenectady, N.Y. New York Sportimes ......... Mamaroneck, N.Y. Philadelphia Freedoms ..... Radnor, Pa. Sacramento Capitals.........Roseville, Calif. St. Louis Aces................... St. Louis, Mo. Springfield Lasers............. Springfield, Mo. Defending Champions: The Philadelphia Freedoms outlasted the Newport Beach Breakers 21-14 to win the King Trophy at the 2006 WTT Finals in Newport Beach, Calif. Format: Each team is comprised of two men, two women and a coach. Team matches consist of five events, with one set each of men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. The first team to reach five games wins each set. A nine-point tiebreaker is played if a set reaches four all. One point is awarded for each game won. If necessary, Overtime and a Supertiebreaker are played to determine the outright winner of the match. Live scoring: Live scoring from all WTT matches featured on WTT.com. Sponsors: Advanta is the presenting sponsor of the WTT Pro League and the official business credit card of WTT. Official sponsors of the WTT Pro League also include Bälle de Mätch, FirmGreen, Gatorade, Geico and Wilson Racquet Sports. -
TIM BLENKIRON Inspiration Is His Calling
TIM BLENKIRON Inspiration Is His Calling Vegas is a magnet for transplants. Andre what really matters is the whole individual – spread across the country. Now, with the Agassi’s dad Mike left a cramped Tehran her or his vitality, health and growth. Whether help of the USTA Foundation, the excellence apartment to come to town to weave his guiding a kid from an impoverished family, team model that TEAM AGASSI and TEAM dreams. Here Aussie Darren Cahill kick- mentoring a teen coping with depression or BRYAN created has blossomed in 16 cities. started his stellar coaching career. helping an emerging pro battling crippling All the while, in Las Vegas, 160 students Enter Tim Blenkiron, a 6’ 6” Aussie who anxiety, Tim brings deep insights, compas- have graduated from Tim’s program and came to Vegas to play for UNLV and became sion and his celebrated no quit mindset. have earned scholarships and admission to an All-American, won an NCAA doubles Over the years many have noted Tim’s dozens of elite schools, from Stanford and championship and, in the 26 years since USC to Harvard and Yale. then, hasn’t stopped giving. For him, ex- For Tim, noted Wolfington, “Money is cellence is a habit. “It’s mind-bog- not in his currency. I’ve never seen gling to think how many him turn anyone down. He’s lives Tim has affected helped so many. His on the court,” emphasis is on noted longtime physical, emo- tennis ob- tional and server mental Trent health. Alenik. From What is nutrition, not at all fitness, and mind-boggling sleep science is that Blenkiron to meditation he’s just won the USTA’s created a high perform- prestigious Eve Kraft Com- ance community for families munity Service Award. -
SEMI-FINAL FEDEX ATP HEAD 2 HEADS – in Order of Play
BARCELONA OPEN BANCSABADELL: DAY 6 MEDIA NOTES Saturday, April 23, 2016 Real Club de Tenis Barcelona 1899, Barcelona, Spain | April 18-24, 2016 Draw: S-48, D-16 | Prize Money: €2,152,690 | Surface: Clay ATP Info: Tournament Info: ATP PR & Marketing: www.ATPWorldTour.com www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com Maria Garcia-Planas: [email protected] @ATPWorldTour @bcnopenbs Nanette Duxin: [email protected] facebook.com/ATPWorldTour facebook.com/barcelonaopenbancsabadell Press Room: +34 93 2052365 TOP TWO SEEDS NADAL, NISHIKORI, JOINED BY KOHLSCHREIBER, PAIRE SEMI-FINALS PREVIEW: The top two seeds Rafael Nadal and Kei Nishikori, who have accounted for 10 of the past 11 tournament titles since 2005 (except 2010), headline Saturday’s semi-finals at the Barcelona Open BancSabadell. In the opening match, Nishikori takes on wild card/No. 6 seed Benoit Paire and Nadal follows against No. 10 seed Philipp Kohlschreiber. Nishikori and Paire meet for the fifth time (tied 2-2) and the Frenchman won the last two meetings last year at the US Open and in Tokyo. In their lone clay court meeting, Nishikori won in four sets in the 3R at Roland Garros in 2013. Nishikori enters on a 13-match Barcelona winning streak and he leads the tournament this week in service games won, holding 27 of 29 games (93%). Paire is making his third semi-final showing of the season and he’s attempting to reach his fifth career ATP World Tour final (1-3). The 26-year-old wild card is trying to become the first Frenchman to reach the Barcelona final since Thierry Tulasne won the title in 1985 (d. -
THE ROGER FEDERER STORY Quest for Perfection
THE ROGER FEDERER STORY Quest For Perfection RENÉ STAUFFER THE ROGER FEDERER STORY Quest For Perfection RENÉ STAUFFER New Chapter Press Cover and interior design: Emily Brackett, Visible Logic Originally published in Germany under the title “Das Tennis-Genie” by Pendo Verlag. © Pendo Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich and Zurich, 2006 Published across the world in English by New Chapter Press, www.newchapterpressonline.com ISBN 094-2257-391 978-094-2257-397 Printed in the United States of America Contents From The Author . v Prologue: Encounter with a 15-year-old...................ix Introduction: No One Expected Him....................xiv PART I From Kempton Park to Basel . .3 A Boy Discovers Tennis . .8 Homesickness in Ecublens ............................14 The Best of All Juniors . .21 A Newcomer Climbs to the Top ........................30 New Coach, New Ways . 35 Olympic Experiences . 40 No Pain, No Gain . 44 Uproar at the Davis Cup . .49 The Man Who Beat Sampras . 53 The Taxi Driver of Biel . 57 Visit to the Top Ten . .60 Drama in South Africa...............................65 Red Dawn in China .................................70 The Grand Slam Block ...............................74 A Magic Sunday ....................................79 A Cow for the Victor . 86 Reaching for the Stars . .91 Duels in Texas . .95 An Abrupt End ....................................100 The Glittering Crowning . 104 No. 1 . .109 Samson’s Return . 116 New York, New York . .122 Setting Records Around the World.....................125 The Other Australian ...............................130 A True Champion..................................137 Fresh Tracks on Clay . .142 Three Men at the Champions Dinner . 146 An Evening in Flushing Meadows . .150 The Savior of Shanghai..............................155 Chasing Ghosts . .160 A Rivalry Is Born . -
Magazine ITF2018
Pro Circuit 16 - 24 GIUGNO 2 0 1 8 TORNEO INTERNAZIONALE DI TENNIS COMBINED MASCHILE e FEMMINILE Montepremi 15.000+15.000 $ VIII° Memorial Angelo Rossini - TROFEO INCONTRI DI SINGOLO E DOPPIO MASCHILE E FEMMINILE INGRESSO GRATUITO – INCONTRI POMERIDIANI E SERALI Saluto del Presidente dello Sporting Porgo il benvenuto a tutti gli atleti e alle atlete che, insieme ai propri allenatori, parteciperanno al nostro Torneo Internazionale di Tennis ITF Combined, una formula presente in pochi circoli in Italia e che ha alimentato il piacere del pubblico e dei nostri associati. Nella formula del COMBINED giocheranno i rispettivi tabelloni tennisti e tenniste nelle categorie di singolare e doppio in dieci giorni di spettacolo sportivo. Ringrazio anticipatamente i Soci dello Presidente del Consiglio Direttivo SCS asd Sporting sempre disponibili ad accogliere gli ospiti presso il circolo e ringrazio le maestranze che già da tempo lavorano per rendere l’evento all’altezza del prestigio del Club. Il Torneo è come sempre aperto al pubblico, inizierà sabato 16 giugno con le qualificazioni fino alle finali del 23 e 24 giugno. Invitiamo gli appassionati a questa settimana di bel tennis giocato da gio- vani talenti, italiani e stranieri ai quali auguriamo di scalare, in un prossimo futuro, le classifiche mondiali, così come in passato fecero tanti Campioni che hanno giocato sui campi in terra rossa dello Sporting. Emanuel Manfredini Memorial Angelo "Gianni" Rossini Rossini fu uno dei pilastri dello sviluppo socio economico di tutto il comprensorio sassolese che lo ricorda con stima e affetto; grazie alla sua intuizione e a quella di alcuni suoi amici costruì un Club capace di essere fulcro di sport e di aggregazione nell’ambito della collettivi- tà sassolese, lo SPORTING CLUB SASSUOLO. -
AEGON Championships ORDER of PLAY Thursday, 14 June 2012
AEGON Championships ORDER OF PLAY Thursday, 14 June 2012 CENTRE COURT 1 COURT 2 COURT 9 Matches Start At: 12:30 pm Matches Start At: 12:30 pm Matches Start At: 12:30 pm Matches Start At: 12:30 pm Colin FLEMING (GBR) Robert LINDSTEDT (SWE) Nicolas MAHUT (FRA) Kevin ANDERSON (RSA) [9] Ross HUTCHINS (GBR) [6] Horia TECAU (ROU) [4] 1 vs vs vs vs Grigor DIMITROV (BUL) Feliciano LOPEZ (ESP) [5] [Alt] Steve DARCIS (BEL) Jonathan ERLICH (ISR) Olivier ROCHUS (BEL) Andy RAM (ISR) followed by followed by followed by followed by Marcos BAGHDATIS (CYP) Ivan DODIG (CRO) Julien BENNETEAU (FRA) [8] Jamie MURRAY (GBR) Simone BOLELLI (ITA) 2 vs vs vs vs Jo-Wilfried TSONGA (FRA) [2] Sam QUERREY (USA) Mahesh BHUPATHI (IND) Xavier MALISSE (BEL) Rohan BOPANNA (IND) [5] followed by followed by followed by followed by After suitable rest Kevin ANDERSON (RSA) Ivo KARLOVIC (CRO) Yen-Hsun LU (TPE) Marin CILIC (CRO) [6] Leander PAES (IND) Frank MOSER (GER) 3 vs vs vs vs Janko TIPSAREVIC (SRB) [3] Lukas ROSOL (CZE) Julien BENNETEAU (FRA) Eric BUTORAC (USA) Nicolas MAHUT (FRA) Paul HANLEY (AUS) [8] followed by followed by followed by Alex BOGOMOLOV JR. (RUS) Xavier MALISSE (BEL) David NALBANDIAN (ARG) [10] James CERRETANI (USA) Dick NORMAN (BEL) 4 vs vs vs Edouard ROGER-VASSELIN (FRA) Bob BRYAN (USA) Mariusz FYRSTENBERG (POL) Mike BRYAN (USA) [2] Marcin MATKOWSKI (POL) [3] followed by followed by TBA Max MIRNYI (BLR) Janko TIPSAREVIC (SRB) Daniel NESTOR (CAN) [1] Nenad ZIMONJIC (SRB) [7] 5 vs vs [WC] Lleyton HEWITT (AUS) Kevin ANDERSON (RSA)/Leander PAES (IND) or Andy RODDICK (USA) Julien BENNETEAU (FRA)/Nicolas MAHUT (FRA) Chris Kermode Konstantin Haerle/Miro Bratoev Jimmy Moore Mark Darby/Tom Barnes Tournament Director Tour Manager Referee ATP Supervisor Order of Play released : 13 June 2012 at 21:14 MATCHES WILL BE CALLED ANY MATCH ON ANY COURT Doubles Alternate Sign-in Deadline : 12:00 noon FROM THE PLAYERS' LOUNGE & MAY BE MOVED LOCKER-ROOM. -
Varifocal Contact Lenses Are London, Is Serving up His of People Bathed in Sunshine
PROMOTED CONTENT Q&A SPECSAVERS How was it starting out? I was sick with nerves. On my first day the autocue bust and I was scrabbling around trying to read off a script. Had you always set your 20/20 VISION20/20 WITH sights on commentating? 20/20 I’ve never had a plan, but I work Varifocal hard and focus on whatever is Wimbledon commentator Andrew Castle talks about his love in front of me at the time. contact lenses for all things SW19, and recalls the tennis stars and matches Has your eyesight changed Is the world slipping of old. Continuing our series with Specsavers, Helen Gilbert in your mid-life years? out of focus? Here’s About three years ago, Sophia a brilliant solution asks the former British No. 1 20 questions in 20 minutes and I were in a restaurant and I couldn’t read the menu. The print was painfully small and in Andrew Castle is not alone in swirly italics. I now wear lenses experiencing a change in vision. to read the newspapers and the Maybe you are starting to hold ndrew Castle is What happened next? computer screens I use at LBC things at arm’s length to see a familiar face in I won and a couple of days radio when I present shows. clearly? Don’t worry, it affects the Wimbledon later faced the No. 2 seed Mats most people aged 40-plus and commentary box. Wilander on the old No 1 Court. Do you wear your lenses can mean that tasks, such as AtA this year’s championships, As I I walked through the tunnel, for anything else? reading menus, are difficult. -
Guantanamo Daily Gazette 1 Sunrise: Tomorrow, 5:29 A.M
Wednesday's flight Editor's Choice Energy Conservation Monday, June 24 C-141 Navy-Marine Corps Relief Usage: 278,000 KWH 'Arrive Depart 1991 Jeep Wrangler Cost: $34,750 Guantanamo Bay -------- 4:35 a.m. Get raffle tickets from Cost in Norfolk: $20,850 Charleston, S.C. 7:30 p.m. Central Fidelity: 4372 Comparison in April See page 3 DDS/PAC: 4875 Paola Point Gitmo Norfolk SIMA: 4776 Three bedro om $1,271 $404 I Guantanamo Daily Gazette 1 Sunrise: Tomorrow, 5:29 a.m. Sunset: Today, 8:37 pm. Vol. 47 -- No. 119 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Tuesday, June 25, 1991 Earthquake shakes Filipinos, death toll increases to 310 It's here! AP - The forces of nature from the tons of ash and debris r continue to test the patience of that have poured from the Filipinos. volcano. Yugoslavia - The Republic of It was another earth-shak- United States officials have Croatia apparently can't wait to ing day in the Philippines been quoted as saying that break away from Yugoslavia. An today. Five moderate earth- Clark Air Base, just 10 miles announcement on Zagreb Televi- sion today says Croatia will make quakes have struck the area from Mount Pinatubo, has suf- its secession official today, one near MountPinatubo, sending fered about $300 million in ay earlier than scheduled. thousands of frightened people damage from volcanic ash and ere's fear the move could trig- ger unrest and bloodshed among scampering from their mudslides. Before the vol- the 600,000 ethnic Serbs living in homes. -
Best of N Contests: Implications of Simpson's Paradox in Tennis Benjamin Wright
Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2012 Best of N Contests: Implications of Simpson's Paradox in Tennis Benjamin Wright Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION BEST OF N CONTESTS: IMPLICATIONS OF SIMPSON’S PARADOX IN TENNIS By BENJAMIN WRIGHT A thesis submitted to the Department of Sport Management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2012 Benjamin Wright defended this thesis on June 28, 2012. The members of the supervisory committee were: Ryan Rodenberg Professor Directing Thesis Yu Kyoum Kim Committee Member Michael Mondello Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members, and certifies that the thesis has been approved in accordance with university requirements. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my parents, Bill and Donna Wright, for their support throughout my life. I also greatly appreciate their unquestioned support in my choice to further my education in obtaining a graduate degree. Both have assisted in making this thesis the best paper it can be throughout the editing process and I am indebted to them for this. Next, I would like to thank my major professor, Dr. Ryan Rodenberg, for his great contributions to not only this thesis but also my time in the Florida State University Sport Management Masters program. Working closely with Dr. Rodenberg on this thesis and other projects has been an excellent experience. -
Tennis Glory Ever Could
A CHAMPION’S MIND For my wife, Bridgette, and boys, Christian and Ryan: you have fulfilled me in a way that no number of Grand Slam titles or tennis glory ever could Introduction Chapter 1 1971–1986 The Tennis Kid Chapter 2 1986–1990 A Fairy Tale in New York Chapter 3 1990–1991 That Ton of Bricks Chapter 4 1992 My Conversation with Commitment Chapter 5 1993–1994 Grace Under Fire Chapter 6 1994–1995 The Floodgates of Glory Chapter 7 1996 My Warrior Moment Chapter 8 1997–1998 Wimbledon Is Forever Chapter 9 1999–2001 Catching Roy Chapter 10 2001–2002 One for Good Measure Epilogue Appendix About My Rivals Acknowledgments / Index Copyright A few years ago, the idea of writing a book about my life and times in tennis would have seemed as foreign to me as it might have been surprising to you. After all, I was the guy who let his racket do the talking. I was the guy who kept his eyes on the prize, leading a very dedicated, disciplined, almost monkish existence in my quest to accumulate Grand Slam titles. And I was the guy who guarded his private life and successfully avoided controversy and drama, both in my career and personal life. But as I settled into life as a former player, I had a lot of time to reflect on where I’d been and what I’d done, and the way the story of my career might impact people. For starters, I realized that what I did in tennis probably would be a point of interest and curiosity to my family. -
Corruption: Its Impact on Fair Play Richard H
Marquette Sports Law Review Volume 19 Article 3 Issue 1 Fall Corruption: Its Impact on Fair Play Richard H. McLaren Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw Part of the Entertainment and Sports Law Commons Repository Citation Richard H. McLaren, Corruption: Its Impact on Fair Play, 19 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 15 (2008) Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw/vol19/iss1/3 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CORRUPTION: ITS IMPACT ON FAIR PLAY RICHARD H. MCLAREN* I. INTRODUCTION A difference between sport and entertainment is the unpredictability of sporting outcomes versus the planned and executed event that provides entertainment. Corruption attempts to alter this equation and make sport more of an entertainment event with a greater certainty of outcome. This equation is altered when corruption is centered on match fixing or gambling; biased refereeing; and, to a similar but different degree, when sporting results are affected by the use of performance enhancing drugs. Corruption, in any of the foregoing forms, robs sport of its essential feature of uncertainty of the outcome and accelerates its spin into the forum of entertainment, and thus it no longer is sport. Corruption gnaws away at the fundamental foundations of sport and therefore of sporting integrity. It becomes essential to protect that integrity to ensure that sport is free from any corrupt influence that might cast doubt over the authenticity and unpredictability of the sporting result. -
Tennis Presenter Andrew Castle
PAGE 78 C M Y K DAILY MAIL WeeKEND ‘People think that because I played tennis I must be posh. My dad ran a chippie and I’m proud of my working-class background’ DEFINITE Wadadli beers. Then we’d have a game of bowls. Later I’d sail a small catama- ran then nap on the beach. We’d have cocktails at the Tanjung Rhu Resort in Malaysia – gin and tonic for me, cham- pagne for Sophia and a foul-coloured ARTICLE mix of fruit juices for the girls! I’d have lobster for dinner, followed by a mid- We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly night walk on the beach. I’m 51 now, so probing questions – and only accept I’d happily snuggle up in bed at home. The happiest moment you will cherish THE definitive answer. This week: forever… When my mum, Lyn, saw me win my first match at Wimbledon Wimbledon commentator Andrew Castle in 1986. It was total vindication for years of effort and belief on her part. The prized possession you value above The person who has influenced you all others… A 1912 baby grand piano. It’s most… My wife Sophia. The saddest time that shook your been in the family for 15 years and we’ve Without her I world… When Dad died of a heart attack. had many fun get-togethers around it. wouldn’t be as I was only 19 and hadn’t seen him much gentle or listen as for three years because I was in the US.