Tennis

Mulan

Rafael Nadal King of tennis
Yesterday at 07:39 · Edited ·

Via @jontownend1:
Benito Pérez Barbadillo's interview to BBC Radio5:

"No risk of surgery at all on the wrist"

Benito has no idea when we'll see him again, he doesn't want to commit to a set date. He thinks Asia, maybe Davis Cup.

But he was clear to say that Rafa won't be out for long. Also, Rafa hasn't made a pick for the USO title

Benito was also asked if Rafa is weary of constantly having to fight back from injury, answered no. He's practicing with heart and remembers the many great things tennis has given him.

To clean up the "no idea" tweet (I don't type quickly and Benito talks FAST), he didn't want to give the media something to twist.

The BBC were pressing for a tournament name, Benito wasn't budging. Best case scenario is DC, he sounded very confident on Asia."

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legaaaa...

sore_itam

eh astro tayang us open kt eurosport...xde HD ke?

mana nk tgk live us open pagi ni yer? nk tgk maria vs maria..

ashburn

sore_itam posted on 26-8-2014 08:07 AM
eh astro tayang us open kt eurosport...xde HD ke?

mana nk tgk live us open pagi ni yer? nk tgk ma ...

Kat eurosport jekk..HD xderr.
Aku cuti harini dpt tgkk maria..xder HD
xperr..maria mmg dh HD pon

karambunai

Mulan posted on 22-8-2014 09:02 AM
USO draw dah keluar...

sebab i sedang double berkabung arini - mh17 and rafa not in USO - i maleh ...

bkn x bagi kredit.. nanti saya kasi lansam sekali. biar terbeliak bijik mata tgk bpe kredit dapat....  apa apa pun thank you Mulan sebab selalu update..

Mulan

karambunai posted on 27-8-2014 10:23 AM
bkn x bagi kredit.. nanti saya kasi lansam sekali. biar terbeliak bijik mata tgk bpe kredit dapat. ...

hehee!!

tqvm, mod karambunai

baru semangat sket nak tgk USO ni...

karambunai

Mulan posted on 27-8-2014 10:37 AM
hehee!!

tqvm, mod karambunai

welcome.. no problem, just kekadang xsempat nak check satu2, semua komen2 bernas, komen bergambar, komenbertroll, komen vid akan di beri kredit, ok.. keep continue to update this thread.

Harap yang lain pun suka dengan pemberian kredit atas kerjasama dan menyumbang tuk thread ni.

Terima kasih

ashburn

US Open 1st round: Maria def Kirilenko 6:4 6:0

ashburn

Yen_Aireena

tq mod @karambunai   
barulah semangat nak post...

Mulan

7-Grigor Dimitrov vs. Ryan Harrison

American Harrison has faced a lot of tough draws in the Slams. It seems like every time he sees his bracket, he’s going up against one of the top players. He has thus far faced off against Rafa Nadal, Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro and David Ferrer, and now he draws Grigor Dimitrov, who is ranked No. 7 and just beat him in Wimbledon’s first round in June.

The 22-year-old Harrison has had a difficult year, but he keeps trying, as he loves to compete. He is not as dominant as the game’s big guns, but he is a keen student of the game and is working hard to develop an effective attack. That’s what he’ll need to do against Dimitrov; he cannot hope that the Bulgarian will play sloppy and go away. The American will need to rip his shots and hope they go in because Dimitrov has a lot of variety, and during the past two years, he has come to understand the intricacies of shot-making better. He also has settled down and rarely gets angry and can compete hour after hour–not unlike his girlfriend Maria Sharapova.

Harrison does have a chance, but he has to serve huge and use his forehand because his backhand isn’t strong enough to out-stroke Dimitrov. The Bulgarian has to be disturbed before he will take more risks, and that’s the only thing that would give Harrison a real chance.

Grigor is fast, smart and plays with a lot of confidence. Harrison will push his opponent, but his game isn’t big enough yet to pull off a shocker. Dimitrov will win in four sets. [--> needed only 3 sets.]

Other Picks:

In 2009, Caroline Wozniacki looked like a real deal and reached the final here. But while she ended the year as No. 1 in 2010 and 2011, she has been unable to reach a final at a Slam. However, she has played well during the past six weeks and should be able to take the unknown Aliaksandra Sasnovich easily. [ok]

Aga Radwanska played very well in the first round and looks sharp. Shuai Peng can move quickly and go for her shots, but she is up and down. Radwanska will win in straight sets. [hahaa... terbalik sudaaa..biggest upset on women's side so far]

No. 6 Tomas Berdych has not been playing great, but when he decides to push hard, he has a legitimate chance to reach the final. But Lleyton Hewitt loves the US Open and will go all out. The Aussie Hewitt is clearly not the player who won the US Open in 2001, but he loves to take chances and knows that his body will be OK in the first round. Lleyton will win in five sets. [nahh... Lleyton gone in 3 sets]

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apa nih radwanska?

Mulan

sbg peminat rafa yg obsessed...

i happy jer tgk ni..

Martin Klizan (SVK)
defeats
Steve Darcis (BEL)

3-6, 2-6, 7-6(5), 7-5, 6-4

ashburn

Mulan posted on 28-8-2014 09:15 AM
sbg peminat rafa yg obsessed...

i happy jer tgk ni..

Mulan

ashburn posted on 28-8-2014 09:29 AM

ashburn

Comeback again!  
Maria into 3rd round with win over Dulgheru 4:6 6:3 6:2

Mulan

kesian jugak dia ni...

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Caroline Wozniacki's hair is caught in the racquet during her U.S. Open match. (AP Photo)

You simply have to hand it to Caroline Wozniacki. She gets dumped after the wedding invitations have already been sent out, and she rights her season's ship, winning the Istanbul tournament weeks later. She faces down a brief phone call that makes her a single lady, and responds months later with statements like, "I don’t believe in holding onto someone who doesn’t want to be with you," and "I don't really follow golf anymore."

She finds her ponytail stuck in her racquet and tries to swing away with her heralded backhand anyway:



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the rest of the article :~

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2 ... ught-racquet/52577/

Mulan

Maria Sharapova's thirst for three-set matches appears to be unquenchable. (Photo by Anita Aguilar)

War and War
Thursday, August 28, 2014 /by Peter Bodo

NEW YORK—Alright, it’s time to play Tennis Jeopardy!

Answer: If I were a Russian novelist instead of a Russian tennis player, I would have written War and Peace.

Question: “Who is Maria Sharapova?”

Yes, nobody, but nobody, has mastered long-form tennis like Sharapova, who improved her record in her tour-leading 23 three-set matches this season to 17-6 with her latest triumph, a grinding, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Alexandra Dulgheru.

This wasn’t the most coveted match-up for Dulgheru, who underwent surgery on her right wrist in May 2013, and had played just one set in the past five weeks because of inflammation. She knew as well as anyone that putting Sharapova on a tennis court is a lot inviting someone you met backpacking to stay at your apartment in New York—chances are, she’s going to be there for a long, long time.

By the middle of the third set, as Sharapova finished with the preliminaries and began to wind down the show for her fans, Dulgheru was seeking medical help for her right wrist. As a trainer gently bent and twisted it this way and that, Dulgheru stared at it as if she wasn’t quite sure it belonged to her.

At least this time, Sharapova could rest assured that the medical injury timeout called by her opponent was legitimate. But if things keep going this way, tournament officials will have to have an EMS vehicle instead of a mere trainer parked court-side, ready to spring into action as Sharapova breaks down another rival.

So what is it with all of Sharapova’s three-set epics?

That’s a good question. Perhaps Sharapova, cognizant of her drawing power, has a signed a contract stipulating that, instead of collecting prize money, she’s going to get paid by the hour. Maybe she’s seen the classic movie, Rebel Without a Cause, and has developed an unhealthy fascination with the “chicken game.” It’s also possible that, like the thrill-seeker who wants to jump off the top of Mount Everest and glide to the bottom in nothing but a Rocky the Flying Squirrel suit, she’s simply interested in testing her limits.



“Sometimes it's good to kind of look back and think that in these types of situations, (under these) conditions, that it's really good to get through,” Sharapova admitted after her latest win. “You put yourself in a really tough position, but then you're able to find a way to get back and finish really strong.”

True enough. But do you really need to recover from a tough position day-in and day-out, week after week?

For those of you keeping score at home, Sharapova’s three-set piece d’resistance probably was her first-round win at Stuttgart over Lucie Safarova. All three sets ended in a tiebreaker, the first two 7-5 before Sharapova cleaned up the last one, 7-2. She went on to win the tournament. (The runner-up? Sharapova’s 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 second-round Australian Open win over Karin Knapp.)

Cincinnati, Sharapova’s final U.S. Open warm-up, was her most three-set rich tournament this year. She lost a three-set semifinal to Ana Ivanovic, but won two of her three previous matches in the maximum number of sets.

Sharapova’s most emphatic three-set win might have been her Roland Garros fourth-round win over former French Open finalist Sam Stosur—a 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 “blowout.” And I have to assume that the most disappointing of her three-set losses was the one inflicted on her by Angelique Kerber at Wimbledon, where the final score was 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-4.

There’s another theory that may explain Sharapova’s devotion to three-set matches which bears examination. It’s the idea that she’s embraced a version of the religious practice known as the “mortification of the flesh.” That’s a fancy way of saying that she likes to punish herself. The practice refers to any number of masochistic and/or self-flagellating exercises common in religious mysticism. But the impulse isn’t strictly religious; it’s universal.

Let’s face it, nobody conveys the impression of suffering on a tennis court better than Sharapova; her shriek/scream is a clear and obvious tell. Sure it’s aggressive and perhaps intimidating, but it also can be heard as a protest. A cry. And you’re just as likely to cry out if the one whipping you is. . . you.

Let me ask you this: Does anyone, male or female, make tennis appear to be a more painful experience, or convey the impression that it isn’t merely a game, but a ruinous, desperate, existential struggle? When I watch Sharapova play, I feel like I’m watching someone fighting for her very life.



I don’t think “fun” is the word anyone would use to describe the experience of watching a Maria Sharapova match. Fascinating, maybe. Fun, no. The weird thing is that even when Sharapova is winning, it feels like she’s losing. She doesn’t just make tennis look like bitterly hard work, she makes it look like pain. You can even see it in her face. Nobody looks as troubled on a tennis court as Sharapova.

Look at it that way, and the way Sharapova screams does make a certain amount of sense. Oh, I know, it gets to be a drag, always talking about the screaming. And we’ve been exposed to Sharapova’s unique habit for a long time now; even those of us who complain about it have come to accept it.

But it’s really an amazing thing that she screams like that, even if we don’t take a position on whether it’s sporting or not. It’s nothing less than bizarre.

Forget about that, though. Sharapova is here to stay, and so is her shriek—and so are all those life-and-death three-set struggles that she has made her stock in trade.

Mulan

kyrgios masuk 3rd round ehh...

meeting tommy robredo...

bioessence

Mulan posted on 17-7-2014 08:56 AM
lovely article...

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Mulan

bioessence posted on 30-8-2014 05:13 PM
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Mulan

Wozniacki ousts Sharapova in fourth round of U.S. Open
SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2014 /BY AP




Caroline Wozniacki engaged the crowd in her three-set upset of former U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Caroline Wozniacki trusts her stamina so much that she plans to return to New York in two months to run a marathon.

Maria Sharapova, usually the one wearing down opponents in the third set, sure couldn't keep up on a steamy Sunday at the U.S. Open.

Wozniacki won 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in 2 hours, 37 minutes to get back to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal in more than two years - and get back in the headlines for reasons other than her personal life.

''The season for me has been a little bit up and down,'' she said in quite an understatement, ''and it's so nice to kind of start feeling like I'm playing the way I want to.''

Because of the heat, the players received a 10-minute break before the final set; Sharapova returned to the court late, arguing with the chair umpire after receiving a time violation warning. Perhaps sensing that she was fresher than the five-time major champion, Wozniacki later complained that Sharapova was dawdling between points.

Her tardiness seemed to swing the Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd's support squarely in Wozniacki's favor. When the 10th-seeded Dane broke Sharapova at love to go up 3-1 in the final set, she got a standing ovation from the fans and waved her arms to egg them on. Sharapova had appeared to hit a winner three times on that game's final point only for Wozniacki to somehow chase down the ball. Finally, Sharapova hit a volley into the net.

Wozniacki's defensive style is faulted as the reason that the former top-ranked player has made only one major final. She mixed in just enough aggression in the final set Sunday to keep the pressure on Sharapova.

''She's very good at getting a lot of balls back and making you hit another one,'' Sharapova said. ''In the end, I went for a little too much.''

She insisted the conditions didn't bother her. Sharapova had been 17-6 in three-set matches this year, including her come-from-behind second-round victory here.

The fifth-seeded Sharapova's loss leaves No. 1 Serena Williams as the only woman remaining of the top six.

After a sloppy first set with 21 unforced errors, Sharapova was painting the lines in the second. Wozniacki seemed to spend most of the set watching in dismay as one of Sharapova's 22 winners whizzed by.

Wozniacki said she told herself before the third set to go for her shots.

''If I'm going to lose,'' she recalled thinking, ''at least I'm going to do it with dignity.''

She closed out the match by breaking Sharapova's serve again with a backhand winner. About a half-hour later, play was halted at Flushing Meadows because of thunderstorms with second-seeded Roger Federer a game from losing his first set to Marcel Granollers.

Unlike the women's draw, the men's side didn't lose a top-10 player until Sunday, when fourth-seeded David Ferrer was upset by Gilles Simon in the third round. Simon won 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 to set up a meeting with 14th-seeded Marin Cilic, who beat Kevin Anderson.

Wozniacki will next face 13th-seeded Sara Errani, who ended the run of qualifier Mirjana Lucic-Baroni with a 6-3, 2-6, 6-0 victory.

As a 19-year-old, Wozniacki made the 2009 U.S. Open final, losing to Kim Clijsters, and reached No. 1 in the world the next year. But she hadn't been back to a Grand Slam quarterfinal since the 2012 Australian Open.

In the meantime, she was best known for getting engaged to star golfer Rory McIlroy - then getting dumped in late May after wedding invitations had gone out.

Wozniacki lost in the first round at the French Open soon thereafter and was upset in the fourth round at Wimbledon. She had been playing much better since, though, winning her first title in nine months at Istanbul then dropping a pair of three-set matches to Williams.

Meanwhile, Wozniacki announced a month ago that she planned to run the New York City Marathon on Nov. 2, somehow squeezing in training during a busy fall season. Seems to be working out well mentally and physically on the tennis court.

''Kind of clears my head,'' she said of the extra running. ''I feel more free when I go on court.''

Wozniacki plans to stick around New York after the U.S. Open to attend Fashion Week - including her pal Williams' show - and get in some running in Central Park. The marathon prep has gone on hiatus the past few days, though.

As Wozniacki deadpanned, ''I have a pretty big tournament here that I kind of want to try and win.''

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Patrick of La Verne24 minutes ago

I don't know if it's something physical, (she did suffer a serious injury last year) but Maria's ground strokes are just not penetrating through the court the way they used to, and as a result a lot of players have been able to get the jump on her in first sets lately.  And I think she knows that her shots have lost a few mph, and as a result she doesn't have that almost inimitable third set confidence she used to have.

One thing she *does* still have, - and for which the TV experts rarely even mention --  is remarkable strength and stamina.  She's played a lot of long, tough three-set matches this year, and even after the most exhausting points, you almost never see her huffing and puffing.  This gives her a big third set advantage over smaller, weaker players like Halep, who are visibly not hitting the ball as hard in the third set against Maria as they were in the first set.  It's one thing to return a ground stroke; it's another thing to return it deep into the court.  Even though Maria lost the match today, she was extremely solid on most of those long, long points in the third set.

Caro is one of the few players on tour whose strength and conditioning can match Sharapova's.  And somehow, now that she doesn't have coaches messing up her mind, she's gotten back to hitting the ball aggressively as she did three-four years ago, and she's found a little snap in her first serve, too.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Caro in the finals, and historically she's played very well during the Asian hard court swing.  With Li languishing, Halep struggling a bit, Petra being Petra, Jankovic and Kerber being their usual erratic selves and Vika likely to take a big hit at the Open, I could see Caro making it to the WTA championships, and possibly being in the top 5 by year's end (assuming her marathon running doesn't interfere with her schedule.