All things Tennis. One slice at a time.
Jurgen Melzer and Andreas Haider-Maurer helped out at the draw ceremony for the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria today. The draw includes no.1 seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, no.2 seed Juan Martin del Potro and 44-year-old Austrian Thomas Muster in his (yet again) last tournament before retirement.
View the full singles draw here!
(Photos: Erste Bank)
I took a flight out of the Vienna International Airport last summer. Nice place, great shops, with a long line for passport check. Not once did I look around past the food court and think, “this would be a great place for a tennis court.” But alas, next weekend Austria will face France on a [...]
Today’s photo of the day is nothing but a tricky little treat. No, no one’s dressed up but, but what’s more of a treat than a funny little tennis photo.
In this one – Jurgen Melzer has lost his shoe! Luckily, he got it back, and he went on to win the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy.
Happy [...]
Austria’s President, Heinz Fischer, had a ball today celebrating the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy tournament in Austria’s capital of Vienna. Kind of looks like he really enjoyed that Head racquet too.
(Photos: Bank Austria Tennis Trophy)
It was Kids’ Day at the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy in Vienna, Austria. Kids played with their Wilson tennis racquets, and James Blake was there too to play and sign autographs.
Jurgen Melzer and his girlfriend, former Austrian swimmer Mirna Jukic, watched as Jurgen’s brother Gerald Melzer competed in the Qualification tournament.
(Photos: Bank Austria Tennis Trophy)
Amidst the tizzy that has been Ana Ivanovic’s first title since 2008 and Andy Murray’s domination of Roger Federer in Shanghai, there’s one player that seemingly went unnoticed this week.
Well – not entirely.
You may remember hearing on Thursday that Rafael Nadal was upset in the Shanghai masters. The player that defeat him was Jurgen Melzer. [...]
Some of our favorite photos from Day 6 at the U.S. Open will be appearing in coming posts, so for our photographic summary of the day, we thought we’d give you a slightly different kind of “serving” than you’re probably used to …
… That’s right, all shots of players serving!
Janko Tipsarevic (above), slayer of Andy [...]
Top-ranked Canadian Peter Polansky showed off some great moves last night during his match against Austria’s Jurgen Melzer of Austria during the Rogers Cup in Toronto. He also showed off what looked to us like Silly Bandz on his left wrist.
The craze that’s gone global has also, apparently, become popular with the tennis pros as well. [...]
Serena Williams of USA (L) defeated Russia’s Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 to win her fourth Wimbledon singles title.
Rafael Nadal of Spain (L) defeated Thomas Berdych of Czech Republic (R) 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 to win his second Wimbledon title.
Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova (L) and USA’s Vania King defeated Russia’s Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva 7-6(6), 6-2 to win [...]
Who wants a “Stop War, Start Tennis” t-shirt or bag? We do, we do!
Seriously though, should we have mentioned this earlier in the tournament? Perhaps before the Indian and Pakistani team of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi lost to eventual finalists Jurgen Melzer and Philip Petzschner in the quarterfinal round of gentlemen’s doubles? Because we’re [...]
