All things Tennis. One slice at a time.
World No. 1 doubles team Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (aka Los Bryans) won their 75th team title today, defeating Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer 6-4, 7-6 to win the Valencia Open.
These pictures are proof that the ATP’s deal with Moët & Chandon, the world’s leading champagne house, will come in handy over the next [...]
The Beach Soccer Foundation organized a match today where players such as Albert Costa, David Marrero and Pablo Andujar joined football players Christian Karembeu and Ramiro Amarelle for a beach soccer match.
In other Valencia Open news:
- Sam Querrey upset (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6, 6-2
- (6) Juan Martin del Potro defeated Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4
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Today in Valencia, fans were treated to numerous autograph signing opportunities, meet-and-greets as well as a kids day event with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Sam Querrey. As for on-court happenings, here are some highlights:
(1) David Ferrer defeated Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 6-2.
(2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeated Javier Marti 4-6, 7-5, 6-2
(3) Gael Monfils defeated Albert Montanes 6-3, 6-1
Juan [...]
Gracias to the Valencia Open for capturing el foto del dia, this fantastic candid of Juan Monaco (aka Pico), his amigos and a very odd statue. I’m not sure what’s more guapo – Pico and his amazing hair or that statue’s provocative pose!
As for important things that happened on the court today, here are some results [...]
Today in Valencia, the players took the official photo of the tournament, which included David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez, Nicolas Almagro, Juan Monaco, Gilles Simon, Milos Raonic and John Isner. Missing were Juan Martin del Potro and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who were playing in the Vienna final (against each other).
Ferrer spoke about being drawn to face Fernando [...]
Juan Carlos Ferrero helped out with the 2011 Valencia Open draw today. There are some huge first-round match-ups to come, including Ferrer/Verdasco, Davydenko/Simon, Lopez/Bogomolov, Cilic/Raonic and Del Potro/Tursunov.
View the full draw here!
(Photos: Valencia Open)
One of these Murrays is not like the other. Or is he? Is it Jamie? Is it Andy? Is it both? The non-tennis educated may have to use the racquet makers as key for who is who (or perhaps there’s a mirror on court?). But clearly Andy is the one with the.. curly hair… blue [...]
Spain’s David Ferrer defeated second-seeded Robin Soderling 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the Semifinals at the Valencia Open 500, advancing to his fifth ATP World Tour final of the year. This win only increased his changes of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals (Ferrer is currently ranked 8, behind Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick, who [...]
Look very closely and you’ll spot Feliciano Lopez somewhere in that good-looking bunch. Look even closer and you’ll see Juan Carlos Ferrero as well. The two joined other Joma-wearing football players for a friendly match in Valencia.
(Photos: Valencia Open)
Juan Monaco had today off, after a great win yesterday over number one seed and defending champ Andy Murray. He and his amazing head of hair signed autographs for fans at the Valencia Open autograph booth.
Monaco will play really lucky loser Marcel Granollers (first match tomorrow) for a spot in the semifinals.
(Photos: Valencia Open)
Q: Did Venus buy all of those hats yesterday?
S. Williams: The past few days she has been in hat mode: She has been in all the foregrounds and I was in the background. She loves to shop so I was a little disappointed.
Q: So she is going to bring back a bunch of hats. What do you take back…
S. Williams: Usually something that goes on my ass (…Laughter).
we see you looking, Xisca
