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It has been quite a while since I posted here on The Tennis Times. I have wanted to keep this site up to date, but finding the time at the moment is near impossible. Im on the look out for anyone and everyone help me to keep the site up to date. I love tennis and really want to give something back to the sport. If you are interested in writting on The Tennis Times and having your say then please get in touch!
p.s. Good luck to Roger Federer and Andy Murray tomorrow in the Australian Open Mens Singles final for 2010.
Yes it is US Open time yet again. The richest tournament in the world is going to be very interesting this year.
In the first day we have seen some interesting results but most of the key players are through to the second round. If you want to keep up to date with all the scores and results from the US Open 2009 make sure you head to the official site, www.usopen.org.
Here at The Tennis Times we arent going to just provide our readers with the basic scores, but we do have a US Open widget in the top of sidebar of each post. The Tennis Times will be aiming to provide more indepth and analysis from the US Open but with a fun side. Im tired of most tennis sites just reproducing the basic scores when most people dont want to read that sort of thing when they can get it from ESPN or other sources.
So stay tuned for some fun/gossip/analysis articles coming very soon.
French tennis player Nathalie Dechy is retiring.
The French tennis federation said in a statement Tuesday that the 30-year-old Dechy has decided to end her career as she is expecting a child and wants to devote her time to family life.
Dechy reached the Australian Open semifinals in 2005, but is currently ranked 88th.
Dechy won the Gold Coast singles tournament in 2003 and two Grand Slam doubles titles at the U.S. Open — with Vera Zvonareva in 2006, and Dinara Safina in 2007. She also won mixed doubles at the French Open in 2007.
Dechy played for France in the Fed Cup in singles and doubles from 2000 until this year.
During Wimbledon this year Prince has a little contest going on that seems to be getting a bit of hype. Prince has got a container and filled it with tennis balls and all you have to do is guess how many tennis balls are in the container.
If you head to the Prince site here you can enter until the 5th July, but unfortunately this competition is only for USA citizens. This is the internet age Prince, get with it, anyone anywhere should be able to enter!
Prize = Autographed Prince racquet signed by Maria Sharapova. Approximate Retail Value of prize is $300.
If you want to see the container for yourself then you need to head to the HSBC Wimbledon in Rockefeller Center (June 22 – June 26).
There has been a lot of talk about grunting at this years Wimbledon. I saw on the news the other day that Nick Bollettieri mentioning that he will be providing grunting lessons at his academy after the tournament. I do think that with Maria Sharapova, Michelle Larcher de Brito, Serena Williams and others, there is just too much grunting on court at the moment.
I previously I used to grunt a little bit myself and found that it was more habit than anything, but it was always a small noise compared to Sharapova is producing these days.
So what do you think about grunting and its current situation in the game?
Every year at Wimbledon there is a pre tournament players party and this year is no different. We came across a great picture of Ana Ivanovic with Virgin boss Richard Branson. Im wondering if Branson actually knows who she is or just another tactical publicity stunt.
It has been announced by Basel sports director Peter Horwald on Monday that the St. Jakobshalle venue will be undergoing renovations and will also have its name changed to Roger Federer Arena.
This is great news for Federer who im sure is still in shock about winning his 14th Grand Slam title and equaling Pete Sampras’ record.
The tennis venue hosts the Swiss Indoors tournament where Federer is a three-time defending champion. He’s expected to participate this November to defend the title.
We have just launched a new tennis community over at Reddit. Reddit is a system in which users can signup for Free and then submit and vote up their favourite news stories.
Please head over to http://www.reddit.com/r/TennisNews/
Once there you simply need to register for Free. Then you need to make sure you have joined the TennisNews reddit. Finally, once all that is complete then you are able to submit any tennis link you want to the community.
The aim of this is to keep all the best tennis news sources in one place and let the tennis community vote up the articles that they like in which will bring only the best to the top, but will also allow the users to find interesting new tennis resources.
Please help us build up this community and really try to give a great resource back into the communities hands.
The French Open 2009 will be starting in less than one day at Roland Garros, but who actually stands a chance of winning and who might as well of stayed home!
Raphael Nadal is of course the king of the clay and he will be very hard to beat this year. Rafael lost last week to Roger Federer in Madrid, but now that he has had a few days off to recover I can see him being back on full form.
Roger Federer has a lot more confidence coming into Roland Garros after his win over Nadal in Madrid. Roger has been playing some of the best clay court tennis of his life and he seems very focused. Roger has a few tough matches against clay court specialists in the first few rounds, so if he gets through the first couple rounds then I expect him to be in the final again.
Dinara Safina comes into Roland Garros as the number one player in the world and also the number one seed. Dinara has never won a Grand Slam and this is where she is expected to be at the top. Dinara has Ivanovic in her quarter so it will be interesting to see if Ivanovic can bring to the table a good performance or if she will leave the draw early.
Maria Sharapova is heading to Rome with not a chance of winning the tournament. Maria returned to the tour only last week in Warsaw and lost in the quarterfinals. Im quite surprised that Maria has returned to play the French Open, but then again she has a few points to defend.
Upsets are going to come quick and fast, as they always do at the French Open. Ivo Karlovic (26) is playing Lleyton Hewitt in the first round of the Mens singles and I think that we could see Hewitt beat Karlovic the seeded player in the first round. I can also see Jo-Wilfied Tsonga (9) having a few issues in the first round when he plays fellow Frenchman Julien Benneteau. Additionally it is going to be interesting to see Radek Stepanek (18) play Gaston Gaudio (wildcard) in the first round, Gaston has already won the tournament here so will be interesting to see if he can find some form. Jelena Jankovic (5) could have a tough first round match with Petra Cetkovska. Plus I would be very surprised if Sybille Bammer (28) can get passed Nathalie Dechy in the opening round. Dechy is a local faourite and has always performed very well at Roland Garros.
If you have any thoughts on some upsets or who is going to win the tournament then please let us know in the comments.
Remember the official French Open website is RolandGarros.com
The Tennis Ball Nike Hypermax NFW (No Flywire) features a Tennis Ball colored upper made of Tennis Ball felt and mesh. The upper sits on a White/Yellow midsole and the Visible Air Unit features a Yellow chamber. The Tennis Ball Nike Hypermax does not feature Nike’s Flywire technology while the GR/PE/Team colorways feature the technology.
The Tennis Ball Nike Hypermax NFW is set to release later this Summer.
