Showing posts with label Peter Polansky. Show all posts
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Tennis Round Up
[Monday, September 07, 2009 | 2 comments ]


Musketeer extraordinaire, Gael Monfils during his tricolor match with Jeremy Chardy.

A look at Monfils, Tsonga, Simon & Ouanna's bond on and off the court. They, as a group, put in a respectable showing at Flushing Meadows after having a rough last couple of months. Two of the four are now into the second week (NYT)

An examination of Safin’s career that was plagued by questions of what if (SI)

The top ten dominate, but really the top three REALLY dominate (WSJ)

The always smart and thoughtful, Mats Wilander likes Juan Martin del Potro (Busted Racquet)

His run for the USO title my be difficult and hampered, but Nadal is winning the shirtless poll hands down (PopSugar)

A crazy story about Canada’s Peter Polansky's freak accident and recovery (NYT)

What a difference 18 months makes for Serbian players (New York Observer)

Rafa-mania at the USO (Straight Sets)

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Tennis Round Up: The US Open Edition
[Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 1 comments ]


Pete Sampras thinks Rafa can do it. (I now unfortunately have Rob Schneider in my head.)

The making of Andy Murray -- the article contains some pretty delusional assessments. The delusions could be forgiven should he actually win the title in the coming weeks. There just needs to be less talking about it and more executing (Scotland on Sunday)

Patience may not be Murray’s friend (ESPN)

Sports writers’ favorite topic: The Federer-Nadal Rivalry. This article is able to move past it (NY Times)

Bodo does not think Fed will prevail at the US Open (ESPN)

Rafael Nadal makes VF’s Social Circuit. In the same space, they manage to righteously slam Kournikova (Vanity Fair)

Players warned about Tweeting (AP)

Myles does not take Dancevic’s first-round qualifying loss very well. As a consolation, Canadian Peter Polansky did qualify at the Open (Open Court)

Rod Laver has a memoir (Intersportswire)

The Tennis Fashion Hall of Fame & Shame (The Moment)


And The US Open Qualifiers Are . . .
[Sunday, August 30, 2009 | 1 comments ]



It looks like a good cross-section of players qualified yesterday, which is good for the tournament. Giovanni Lapentti now joins his brother, Nicolas Lapentti in the draw. That has not happened for some time.

In the US, television and online coverage is much improved. If you cannot make it to the tournament, you should have no problems watching a lot of tennis this fortnight if you so desire.

US Open Qualifiers
Pictured
Marco Chiudinelli (SUI), Thomaz Bellucci (BRA), Horacio Zeballos (ARG), Peter Polansky (CAN), Alejandro Falla (COL)

Not Pictured
Michael Yani (USA), Marcel Ilhan (TUR), Josselin Ouanna (FRA), Jesse Witten (USA), Dieter Kindlmann (GER), Michael Berrer (GER), Juan Pablo Brzezicki (ARG), Carsten Ball (AUS), Giovanni Lapentti (ECU), Donald Young (USA), Somdev Devvarman (IND)

Saturday’s Qualifying Results

Monday’s Order of Play

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US Open
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Djokovic Dismisses Canadian
[Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | 1 comments ]



Fourth-seed Novak Djokovic played the hometown favorite, Peter Polansky. The Serb had a routine win over the Canadian youngster 6-4 7-6(6). To his credit, Polansky played well in front of the hometown crowd, and hopefully will improve in the upcoming years. Djokovic will next play the winner of the Youzhny-Isner match.

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