Yellow: The bright kit of David Nalbandian‘s from Yonex finally has some company. At the Abierto Mexicano Telcel this week, he was joined by fellow yellows Alize Cornet, playing in Lacoste against Jill Craybas in the first round; and Mexican Daniela Muñoz. Green: Nicolas Lapentti wearing adidas in the first round against Potito Starace; Carlos […]
trophies: more haarhuis, plus a russian flashback
Paul Haarhuis was last man standing at the year-end tournament for the BlackRock Masters Tennis tour. (He also won an Outback Champions event two weeks ago.) Haarhuis took out Frenchman Guy Forget 6-1, 6-7, 10-8. In case you’re wondering what’s in the background, that’s the pipe organ (UK’s largest) at the Royal Albert Hall. Russian […]
davis cup: cast o’ characters
Okay this is my last Davis Cup post. We can’t end things without talking a little fashion. The Russian team, as expected, showed up in their white/red Bosco Sport warm-ups. And all the guys just wore kits from their sponsors. Everyone stayed white except for Dmitry Tursunov (in bright red Fila) and Mikhail Youzhny (in […]
davis cup final: russia vs. usa
Davis Cup quickies: — The Oregonian‘s Davis Cup blog gave TSF a shout-out yesterday. We laughed out loud when our blogging was described as an “SI swimsuit-issue fantasy.” Le sigh. If only their swimsuit issue looked like this. — Hitting partners for the American team of Andy Roddick, Mike Bryan, James Blake, and Bob Bryan […]
davis cup: russia downs germany
The Davis Cup tie between Russia and Germany (in Moscow) ended up 3-2 in favor of the home team. (See full results here.) Davydenko wore Airness in his straight-set loss to Philipp Kohlschreiber. Kolya’s probably still distracted by the match-fixing scandal that emerged at the Polish Open. (Investigators were scheduled to talk to him next […]