4 Good Tennis Videos In honor of Davis Cup, it will be all Spanish and Argentine players featured this week. 1. Rafael Nadal vs. Juan Martin del Potro Davis Cup 2011 2. David Ferrer vs. Rafael Nadal Australian Open 2011 3. Guillermo Vilas winning the 1977 French Open 4. David Nalbandian vs. Andy Roddick 2006…
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3rd War of Independence for Argentina? Davis Cup Final (Poll Included)
I opened my trusty copy of Independence in Latin America: A Comparative Approach by Richard Graham and re-learned a fact about Argentina. Argentina fought two wars of independence against Spain. These wars revolved around Argentina’s relationship to the deposed and later restored King Ferdinand VII of Spain. Interesting reading. For Juan Martin del Potro, David Nalbandian and company…
Tsonga v. Federer
Federer is the Easy Pick Roger Federer is playing for history and won last week in Basel. Fed had the easier semifinal. Federer clobbered Tsonga at the US Open. This all points toward Roger winning in Paris. Not So Fast – Tsonga Has Reason for Hope Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has had a strong 2011 especially from…
Creating Frankenstein’s Monsters of Tennis
The Inspiration Every October James Rolfe reviews one monster movie per day in his Monster Madness feature. This year he started off with Frankenstein. I thought it would be fun to stitch together the best shots in tennis and imagine animating these amalgamation players. The Rules Four tennis monsters will be created. Only one stroke/aspect can…
Is Djokovic’s 2011 the Best Year Ever?
Wait Until the Year Ends or Did 2011 End in NY? There may be wisdom in letting the rest of 2011 play out before selecting Novak Djokovic’s awesome season as the best ever single season. Novak won the season ending championship in 2008 and adding a second season ending title would be a significant achievement….
Davis Cup Semifinal Predicitons
Preface – Who Put the Puritans in Charge of ITF Scheduling? Tennis has the best sense of scheduling of any global sport as fans can build up to big events and then ease off for a few weeks before building up again How can we be less than one week removed from one of the…
Roddick’s Big Chance
2009 Heartbreak Andy Roddick lost to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final for the 3rd time in 2009. The match went to 16-14 in the fifth set with Roddick being almost unbreakable during the final showdown. Roddick’s close loss to Federer as well as his out muscling of Andy Murray in the semifinals did revive…
Tennis Abides: Dan Martin on Tennis and Life 