All things Tennis. One slice at a time.
While Carnaval is going on in Rio, they have Car-Nadal in Sao Paolo for the Brasil Open! Last night, Team Rafa was in full force as they attended a cocktail party at the Hotel Renaissance. Other players in attendance included Juan Monaco, David Nalbandian, Pablo Andujar, Nicolas Almagro and Bruno Soares. Check out all the [...]
Just outside of Alicante, Spain is where new world No.1 and French Open champion Maria Sharapova has been spending her post-win downtime. Masha dropped by the Tennis Academy of Juan Carlos Ferrero where she relaxed at the facilities and attended a dinner hosted by JCF. Nicolas Almagro was also in attendance and the two Spaniards [...]
The Czech Fed Cup ladies did it last week, now the men are getting into it too! Today in Barcelona, Nicolas Almagro, Albert Ramos and Janko Tipsarevic acted as mannequins in the store Mango as part of the Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell. Brings new meaning to the term “tennis heads,” no?
Mango is the official sponsor of [...]
In between Indian Wells and Miami, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gael Monfils, David Ferrer and John Isner will take a quick trip to Puerto Rico for the 2012 Puerto Rico Tennis Cup. The matches will take place March 19th and 20th 2012 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan.
The four will be [...]
Nicolas Almagro is selling his beautiful Spanish villa in Murcia and is using the ways of the 21st century to do so… he’s selling it on the internet. The house he designed himself and says is “ideal for dinners and parties” is listed with an MTV Cribs-style video of Almagro taking viewers on a tour of [...]
Which of the models above is a mannequin and which is a tennis player?
Feliciano Lopez, Tomas Berdych and Nicolas Almagro look familiar? They’re in Barcelona and ready for the ATP 500 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. Defending champion Fernando Verdasco won’t be there (drama de Espanol!) but there’s a good lot of others ready to take [...]
São Paulo native Thomaz Bellucci and Spaniard Nicolas Almagro participated of an unusual campaign today to promote the beginning of the Brazil Open, which starts tomorrow. The two played miniature tennis in the streets of the Pillory, under the row of the Olodum. Afterward, the two played music on large drums.
Bellucci said of the large drums, [...]
American Sam Querrey defeated Britain’s Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 in the Farmers Classic ATP Tennis Open.
Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeating compatriot Elena Vesnina 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Istanbul Cup.
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus convincingly defeated Russia’s Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-1 in the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford University.
Spain’s [...]
Spain’s Nicolas Almagro defeated defending champion Robin Soderling 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 to win the Swedish Open in Bastad on clay. Almagro, a clay-court specialist, now has his sixth career title.
Hungary’s Agnes Szavay defeated Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in the ECM Prague Open final in Prague, Czech Republic.
Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi defeated Italy’s Flavia Pennetta [...]
In what will be the exception rather than the rule going forward (we promise!), our attention was drawn somewhat away from Day 2 of Wimbledon and focused instead on the drama of the World Cup today. Would South Africa be the first host nation to not make it out of the Group stage? (Sadly, yes.) [...]
