The Tennis Times » french open 2009 http://thetennistimes.com Your Look Inside The World Of Tennis From a Players Perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:48:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Svetlana Kuznetsova To Give Away Here French Open Winnings To Her Church http://thetennistimes.com/svetlana-kuznetsova-to-give-away-here-french-open-winnings-to-her-church/ http://thetennistimes.com/svetlana-kuznetsova-to-give-away-here-french-open-winnings-to-her-church/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:43:25 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=1803 Svetlana Kuznetsova is planning on giving away most of the prizemoney from her French Open title to her church!

“I am planning to buy an accommodation in Moscow, I am still renting an apartment. Also, I have promised to myself to buy a good expensive watch. The majority of the money I am going to donate to my church. There the director of orthodox temple is my spiritual father. I try to to be there as often as possible, to think about something personal, something eternal. But I have a very busy schedule. Occasionally, the father himself visits me. … No matter how strange it sounds, I am a very religious person and try to attend church even in other countries.”

Is it just me or does this simply sound crazy. Maybe it is time I started the next religion and then got people to give their money to me.

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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/roger-federer-interview-after-french-open-2009-win/feed/ 1 Novak Djokovic Ask Ivanovic About Her Love Life http://thetennistimes.com/novak-djokovic-ask-ivanovic-about-her-love-life/ http://thetennistimes.com/novak-djokovic-ask-ivanovic-about-her-love-life/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:02:05 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=1708 novak-djokovicOh the life of a professional tennis player must be fun. Novak Djokovic has to be a player who is enjoying his time as a professional tennis player the most. Djokovic always seems to be making jokes and doing funny ads and more. I would love to hang out with him on tour and just cause mayhem.

During Roland Garros Djokovic appeared at Ana Ivanovic’s press conference and pretended to be a journalist. At teh end of the new conference a “journalist” raised his hand and asked “Tell us something about your love or private life”.

Everybody then turned around to see Novak Djokovic asking the question. Novak was in the room because he had the press conference straight after Ana. Ana obviously didnt respond to the question but simply game him a hand shake on her way out.

“Well everybody asked only professional questions,why didn’t someone asked her something personal” – Nole continued joking when when he sat down ready to answer questions for his press conference.

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Potito Starace had a great look on-court at Roland Garros. I only saw one of his matches but really wanted to find out who made his clothing, in the end its Le Coq Sportif.

The longish shorts have a dash of red over one pocket and orange over the other. The faded blue bandana and signature neck-wear add distinct personality — cool kit.

The look? Le Coq Sportif: Challenger Black Tee, Club Black Short and Myth Tennis Shoe in white and champagne.

Stay tuned to ShopLeCoq for these good looks coming soon at retail.

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Womens Singles: Svetlana Kuznetsova (7) def. Dinara Safina (1) = 6-4 6-2

Mens Doubles: Lukas Dlouhy / Leander Paes (3) def. Weslie Moodie / Dick Norman = 3-6 6-3 6-2

Womens Doubles: A Medina Garrigues / Virgina Ruano Pascual (3) def. Victoria Azarenka / Elena Vesnina (12) = 6-1 6-1

Mixed Doubles: Liezel Huber / Bob Bryan (1) def. Vania King / Marcelo Melo = 5-7 7-6 1-0 (10-7)

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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/french-open-2009-finals/feed/ 0 Roger Federer Defeats Robin Soderling in French Open Mens Final for 2009 http://thetennistimes.com/roger-federer-defeats-robin-soderling-in-french-open-mens-final-for-2009/ http://thetennistimes.com/roger-federer-defeats-robin-soderling-in-french-open-mens-final-for-2009/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:37:48 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=1680 Three time Roland Garros finalist Roger Federer has captured his first French Open title. Roger defeated Robin Soderling 6-1 7-6 6-4 in todays final. Federer has now equaled Pete Sampras with the most Grand Slam titles. Federer has won his 14th Grand Slam title in his 40th career Slam tournament. Pete Sampras, at 31, captured his record 14th Slam title in his 52nd career tournament.

Federer has become the sixth man to win all four Grand Slam titles in his career, the first since Andre Agassi in 1999. Here are the members of the Grand Slam Club (with year of tournament) — Fred Perry (1935 Roland Garros), Don Budge (1938 Roland Garros), Rod Laver (1962 US Open), Roy Emerson (1964 Wimbledon) and Agassi (1999 Roland Garros). Budge won a calendar Grand Slam in 1938 and Laver in 1962 and ’69.

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]]> http://thetennistimes.com/roger-federer-defeats-robin-soderling-in-french-open-mens-final-for-2009/feed/ 0 French Open Womens Final – Dinara Safina vs Svetlana Kuznetsova http://thetennistimes.com/french-open-womens-final-dinara-safina-vs-svetlana-kuznetsova/ http://thetennistimes.com/french-open-womens-final-dinara-safina-vs-svetlana-kuznetsova/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:39:18 +0000 The Insider http://thetennistimes.com/?p=1663 Dinara played a great match this morning against Dominika Cibulkova, defeating the less experienced player 6-3 6-3. While the match this afternoon was a great one to watch as it was back and forth. Svetlana Kuznetsova won the first set 6-4 then was leading slightly in the second set 6-5 and then 5-2 in the tiebreak, but was unable to capitalise on her opportunities and Samantha Stosur came back to win the second set 7-5 in the tiebreak. In the final set Svetlana has taken an early lead and built up a 5-2, before closing out the match 6-3 in the third set.

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