ATP Tennis Results: PBZ Zagreb Indoors 2013 (February 4-10, 2013). Ivo Karlovic ousts 7th seed Grigor Dimitrov in the first round.
we ran out of ljub
Hard-serving Ivo Karlovic upset veteran Croatian Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7) in the third round of the 2010 Australian Open. Up next is Rafa Nadal, who lost the third set in his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber. (Draw: Men’s singles.) Li Ning put him in the same multi-patterned mishmash polo (this time in a […]
'merry christmas!' from the atp, part deux
The ATP got a bunch of the guys to sing ‘Jingle Bells’ on camera. They’re such good sports… Many of them didn’t even know the lyrics to the American Christmas song, but they played along anyway. Jarkko Nieminen has trouble with the word “dashing”, Marcos Baghdatis discovers a discrepancy in the song’s rhyming scheme; and […]
short balls: keeping up with the joneses
I’ve felt a little out of touch with tennis these last few weeks so I’ve been resorting to some picture-packed posts (some of you aren’t complaining, though…). So for this round of short balls I thought I’d check back in with some real issues. Better days ahead: Tom Perrotta shrugs off Maria Sharapova‘s shoulder woes […]
trophies: vienna, moscow, bangkok, stockholm
World No. 3 (and goateed) Novak Djokovic racked up his fifth title this year at the BA-CA Tennis Trophy in Vienna by beating Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka 6-4, 6-0. Not bad for his first tourney since getting to the finals of this year’s U.S. Open. And not too far away, Nikolay Davydenko was mashing with his […]