Youtube Tennis 11-7-2011 through 11-12-2011

4 Good Tennis Videos 1.  Basel Final Highlights – Federer picks up title #68 2.  Valencia Final Highlights – Marcel Granollers wins vs. Juan Monaco 3.  Lleyton Hewitt’s Come On! – Hewitt’s Run to the 2005 Australian Open Final.  Rusty had a few tough encounters on this run.  One gets the feeling Hewitt and Argentina…

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Federer’s 68th Title

Roger Federer d. Kei Nishikori 6-1, 6-3 All is Bonus Roger Federer, as I said elsewhere, could rub two rackets together in an attempt to start a fire as a bit of performance art and be defaulted on time violations at every event he enters until he retires and still be considered one of the…

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Does Tennis Need Inspirational Speeches?

As a tennis player, I have to say there is something about these motivational speeches that is almost laughable. Jim Courier once roughly said that the hard thing about being a tennis coach is that most tennis players chose tennis because they did not want to constantly be told what to do.

Youtube Tennis 10-30-2011 through 11-05-2011

3 Good Tennis Videos *** Final Highlights *** Plus the 3 videos below 1.  Day 5 Highlights from the WTA Championships (I will add Day 6 Highlights when the WTA Posts Them). 2.  Rafael Nadal Highlights Rafa playing some great visceral points. 3.  Stefan Edberg vs. Boris Becker The Masters 1989 Old school serve and…

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Tsonga and Cilic Win

A Quick Post  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga improves his chances of playing the Year End Championships/Masters Cup/ATP World Championships/Masters (could they stick with one name?).  He defeated Juan Martin del Potro 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 in Vienna.  I was pulling for Delpo, but Tsonga has had a really strong year since his Queen’s Club runner-up finish.  Delpo has…

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Thomas Muster Retires Again

Thomas “Coach” Muster? A lot of good can be said about how hard Thomas Muster worked on and off of the tennis court.  Muster is best know for his perseverance to overcome a freak knee injury and his amazing clay court play in 1995.  Muster played a sort of visceral tennis that often looked like…

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Youtube Tennis for 10-24-2011 through 10-30-2011

Three Good Tennis Videos 1.  Pan-Slavic Tennis: An All-Serbian Final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow Jannko Tipsarevic continues his climb in the rankings with a win over Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-2.  2.  Gael Monfils won in Stockholm: Here is a US Open Highlight Monfils, much like Murray, has seen his career hampered by playing…

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Favorite Racquet Sport other than Lawn Tennis (Poll)

I have watched Royal Tennis once and I have to say the scoring system is the most complex of any sport of which I can think. Table Tennis is a lot of fun. Badminton and Speedminton are cool too. I have never played Squash, but I would like to some day. Racquetball is not my…

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