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ATP ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT PRIZE MONEY INCREASES
London, England
05.07.2011

Following a meeting of its Board of Directors, the ATP has announced a multi-year agreement that will see prize money on the ATP World Tour increase significantly over the next three seasons, exceeding $90 million* for the first time by 2014.

Over this period, prize money will increase for all tournaments, with ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events leading the way with a 9% increase in each of the next three years. As part of the agreement, prize money at the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals will increase 30% over the next three years from $5 million to $6.5 million. Additionally, the player bonus pool, which is payable to the world’s top 12 eligible players, will increase 33% from $6 million to $8 million in 2014.

The increases reflect a remarkable period in which the sport’s leading athletes have consistently performed on the world’s biggest stages, taking the game to new heights and helping to attract more fans than ever, resulting in record attendances, increased television and online viewership and new sponsors.

Adam Helfant, ATP Executive Chairman & President, said: “We are very pleased to have reached this agreement that reflects the fact that business across the ATP World Tour is stronger than ever. We are privileged to be experiencing a golden era in men’s professional tennis, and it is fitting that the commitment and excellence of the players is recognized and rewarded in this way.”

*Does not include Grand Slams

[Saint-Tropez]

Zanimljivost:

It hardly went noticed, but French Open doubles champs Daniel Nestor and Max Mirnyi lost in round two to Julian Knowle and Kevin Anderson. Why? Mostly, because Anderson won the last 27 (!) points on his serve. Think about that. It's almost seven straight love games.

You know who was surely happy about Andy Murray's defeat? The promoters handling the heavyweight fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Britain's David Haye. Expected to make its money largely through British pay-per-view buys, the fight was held Saturday night in Hamburg and would have been significantly overshadowed, had Murray been in the final the following day.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/w ... z1RMRSPMeD

[Gama]

Serena may need wild card for U.S. Open
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Serena Williams will need a wild card or have to use her special ranking to get into the U.S. Open. Williams dropped to No. 175 after falling in the fourth round of Wimbledon to Marion Bartoli. The entry cutoff for the U.S. Open is six weeks prior to the event, which begins on August 29. Three-time U.S. Open champion Serena’s next event will be the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford, which begins on July 25, six weeks before the U.S. Open begins.

Players who are injured for six months or more can use a special ranking for entry eight times beginning on the first day of their return, which for Serena would have been the Wimbledon warm-up Eastbourne, which she competed in the week prior to Wimbledon. A player’s special ranking is the ranking she earned immediately after the points of the last tournament she played. For Serena, that would have been Wimbledon 2010. She was ranked No. 1 at the time.

Kad moze Kim, ko zna...

[Dejan]

Danas će Andre Agassi(prvi u open eri sa karijernim slemom ) biti "uveden" u tenisku kuću slavnih u Njuportu.

Ovde je vest od dana kada je odlučeno da Agassi bude član Kuće slavnih:
http://www.tennisfame.com/andre-agassi- ... ll-of-fame

[Gama]

Dobro se setili

[Dejan]

Čini mi se da treba da prodje 5 godina od povlačenja , tako da nisu mogli ranije.

must not have been a significant factor on the ATP or WTA Tour within five years prior to induction

[Dejan]

čini se da je Raonić ozbiljnije povređen

Sa twittera:

Tennis Canada says Raonic underwent hip surgery, out at least six weeks. So he's out of his home event and who knows about the USO

[Gama]

Čini mi se da treba da prodje 5 godina od povlačenja , tako da nisu mogli ranije.

must not have been a significant factor on the ATP or WTA Tour within five years prior to induction

Onda opravdano .
Uopste mi nije izgledalo da je nezgodno pao, slicno kao Delpo protiv Nadala, ali ispade bas ozbiljno .

[Dejan]

Monfils i Rasheed prekinuli saradnju

France’s Gael Monfils has ended his three-year stint with Australian coach Roger Rasheed. The two had worked together since July, 2008 under a three-year contract, which apparently neither side wanted to renew. Under Rasheed, the 24-year-old Frenchman became a top-10 player, reached the semifinals of the 2010 U.S. Open and the quarterfinals of Roland Garros last month.

"We decided to stop our collaboration by mutual agreement," Monfils told reporters after France’s victory over Germany in the Davis Cup quarterfinals. "We had reached the end of a great story. I owe him a lot, I learned a lot with him. It went very well. We talked, we had a good discussion. We're still very good friends."

[Saint-Tropez]

Tignor: http://blogs.tennis.com/thewrap/2011/07/playing-ball-a-theory-of-evolution.html

Playing Ball: A Theory of Evolution

“A lot of people believe competition is like life. That’s not how I see it. I love to win, I love the competition, and I’ll try my best until the last moment. But what happens away from the court is not going to affect what happens on the court. We can try our best on the court and when we are off it we can be close friends, because we are talking 10 minutes before the match.”

These words were spoken by Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon this year. He was referring, in the opening line, to those aging hellions John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors and their contention that today’s male pros like each other too much, that the sport lacks edge. Nadal, as you can see, wasn’t buying it. He thinks that the matches themselves, even when they’re contested in a sporting manner, provide plenty of compelling friction on their own.

In the past, I’ve looked at this generational difference from the spectator’s standpoint. I like today’s sportsmanship, but I also love hearing the old Jimbo-Mac-Nasty war stories from the roughneck days of the 70s and 80s. I love seeing the world’s No. 1, Novak Djokovic, set an example by applauding his opponent’s good shots, even when he’s behind in the score. But I also like to laugh at the recollection of the “Cough Classic” between John McEnroe and Boris Becker in the late-1980s. In a highly testy contest at the Paris Indoors, Becker appeared to intentionally cough every time McEnroe started to serve. This got McEnroe so enraged that he started doing it back to Becker. Oh, for the days when men were little boys.
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But I don’t think I’m all that strange. I’m guessing most tennis players have felt at least a tiny bit of blind, uncontrollable disdain for a perfectly nice person on the other side of the net. “The heat of competition” is a phrase for a reason, and it describes a very real, if utterly irrational, phenomenon. All of which makes me wonder how Nadal and his colleagues at the top of the game today avoid it. They play for such high stakes, and they play each other so often: How is it possible for them not to take their matches personally?

From all appearances, they don’t, and the trend is only increasing with each new star. Federer never had any time or use for gamesmanship; I remember being surprised in his press conference in 2004 at Roland Garros, after his loss to Gustavo Kuerten, when an obviously frustrated Federer mentioned how much he liked playing Kuerten because, essentially, there was no nonsense during his matches, no attempts to intimidate or agitate. Nadal, as we can see above, is able to keep competition from getting personal. And if anything, the two Grand Slam winners who have come after them, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro, have taken on-court camaraderie to greater heights. Each of them will embrace their opponent in defeat and happily applaud the other guy's good shots. The Djokovic-del Potro third-rounder at Roland Garros this year may have been the most sporting tennis match I’ve ever seen.

I loved watching that match (even if it will never be as funny to think about as the Cough Classic). I’m so used to the fellow feeling exhibited by the current generation of men that anything less would have seemed completely unnatural. But bad feelings between competitors aren't really unnatural, are they? How can two guys going toe-to-toe for hours and not start to take what happens between them at least a little personally? The top players have learned to do it.

And maybe that’s why they’re top players. Maybe, rather than being a stylistic change or a generational shift—from the roughnecks of yore to the gentlemen of today—today’s sportsmanship is the result of an evolutionary process: Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and del Potro have learned that they play their best when they don’t make it personal. It a little like the Bjorn Borg phenomenon. The Swede, a self-described madman as a junior, went ballistic in a televised match, which he subsequently lost. From that point on, he decided that he would have to bury his emotions if he wanted to play his best tennis. This was not an original thought; what was unique about Borg was that he could actually do it—for the rest of his career. Part of what makes the top guys today unique is their ability to control and channel their emotions in a productive way. That, as much as anything else, may explain why all of the guys I’ve mentioned have Grand Slam wins, while the prickliest and most outwardly negative of them, Andy Murray, doesn’t.

It seems that Jimbo was wrong after all. Tennis isn’t best thought of as a “goddamn war.” It’s best thought of as . . . a tennis match. It’s best to think like Nadal does in his quote at the top of this article. The fact that he knows that he's going to be friendly with his opponent when he walks off the court helps him keep the sport in perspective and, more important, keep any potentially distracting anger in check.

If only I could watch and learn from today’s kids. But it’s probably too late. I’m an evolutionary relic, I guess, a species destined to let the “heat of competition” get to him. I’ll keep trying, though. Next time, when I’m in the throes of a meltdown and my opponent says “nice shot,” I’ll try to put a “thank” in front of the “you.”

[Gama]

Martina Hingis Asked by Roger Federer to Play Mixed Doubles at 2012 Olympics in London
http://www.thedailyforehand.com/2011/7/13/2274084/martina-hingis-roger-federer-olympics-mixed-doubles-london-comeback

[Goca_64]

Martina Hingis Asked by Roger Federer to Play Mixed Doubles at 2012 Olympics in London
http://www.thedailyforehand.com/2011/7/13/2274084/martina-hingis-roger-federer-olympics-mixed-doubles-london-comeback

U, bas bi bilo zanimljivo videti takvo nesto. Premda, mogao je i s Mirkom da nastupi
I ona je bila teniserka, cak imaju i zajednicke nastupe u proslosti, hm...

[Saint-Tropez]

Tennis Power Rankings by ESPN
Par zanimljivosti:
1. Novak Djokovic:
In 2008 Novak Djokovic's fellow Serb, Ana Ivanovic, became No. 1 and backed it up by winning the French Open. Djokovic did the same at Wimbledon. But unlike Ivanovic, he's here to stay. For a guy who has held top spot for only a week, he's dominant.
2. Rafael Nadal:
Rafael Nadal has won four of the past six majors and reached the Wimbledon final last week. However, he can't figure out how to play Djokovic. Even if his foot was 100 percent, the outcome probably wouldn't have been different. He and Uncle Toni have some work to do.
7. Juan Martin Del Potro:
There are those who long for a bit of nastiness at the top. Here you have it. Juan Martin del Potro and Nadal don't really get along. We saw that at Wimbledon. That aside, del Potro tested Nadal in the fourth round and is a serious contender at Flushing Meadows.
9. Andy Murray:
Oh, Andy Murray. Not so long ago, Murray was considered the biggest threat to Nadal and Federer. Now he's a distant No. 4 on the depth chart, behind the duo and Djokovic. And del Potro is approaching quick.

19. Caroline Wozniacki:
Caroline Wozniacki is the No. 1 women's player in the world, right? Just checking. Not winning majors is one thing, but not getting past the fourth round at consecutive Grand Slams is quite another for the globetrotting socialite.

[Dejan]

Zanimljivi rezultati ankete na tennis.com o šansama na USO :

http://www.tennis.com/polls/xlaapmview.asp?p=117&view=1

Who among these five men has the best shot to win the 2011 US Open?
Juan Martin del Potro (12.94%)
Novak Djokovic (51.22%)
Roger Federer (20.56%)
Andy Murray (1.33%)
Rafael Nadal (13.96%)

Total Votes: 6090

[Tyrone Spong]

Spoiler: pokaži

ESPN proglasio Nadala za najboljeg u 2011!?


Najveća sportska medijska kuća na svetu, američki ESPN, odlučila se za prilično čudan izbor najboljeg tenisera u 2011. jer je nagradu dobio Rafael Nadal, a ne Novak Đoković

Popularne ESPY nagrade, za "izvrsnost u sportu", dodeljene su po 19. put, a Španac Rafael Nadal je u izboru američkih novinara i publike, na neki krajnje neobjašnjiv način završio ispred Novaka Đokovića kao i Rodžera Federera, koji je takođe bio u konkurenciji.

Neko bi možda rekao da je to zato što je srpski teniser sebi dozvolio luksuz da u pet ovogodišnjih trijumfa nad Nadalom u borbama za trofej "rivalu dozvoli da osvoji čak tri seta", ali ipak ostaje nejasno koji su kriterijumi za dodelu ove nagrade, prilično prestižne kada se radi o američkom kontinentu.

Rafael Nadal je, za razliku od Đokovića, bio kandidovan i za ESPY nagradu ESPN-a u kategoriji "najbolji sportista na svetu". Ta laskava titula otišla je u ruke Nemcu Dirku Novickom, koji je predvodio Dalas Meverikse do prve NBA titule u istoriji kluba iz Teksasa.



Mečevi Đokovića i Nadala u 2011. godini

Indijan Vels, finale: Đoković - Nadal 2:1 (4:6, 6:3, 6:2)

Majami, finale: Đoković - Nadal 2:1 (4:6, 6:3, 7:6(4))

Madrid, finale: Đoković - Nadal 2:0 (7:5, 6:4)

Rim, finale: Đoković - Nadal 2:0 (6:4, 6:4)

Vimbldon, finale: Đoković - Nadal 3:1 (6:4, 6:1, 1:6, 6:3)

ATP lista:

1. Novak Đoković 13.155 bodova

2. Rafael Nadal 11.270

http://www.trojka.rs/sport/14467-espn-p ... -2011.html