Category Archives: Davis Cup
Fearsome Quartets
Davis Cup, World Group Quarterfinals The first round of the 2011 Davis Cup World Group produced few classics, meagrely dotted throughout a weekend of lopsided ties and very piddly drama, leaving us – in lieu of satisfaction – with the … Continue reading
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A Waste of Time
As anticipated, and hoped for, the ITF has shown sense, and dismissed the Spanish Tennis Federation’s (RFET) appeal regarding the surface for the upcoming Davis Cup tie with the United States. Common sense of course isn’t, but in this case, … Continue reading
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A Slow Week
The story of a slow week has been a fast court. For those not following this relative non-event, which has required all the media oxygen it can get, Spain has formally complained to the ITF over the USTA’s choice of … Continue reading
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A Moment In The Sun
Another update has appeared to the continuing exploits of Israel’s No.2 tennis player Amir Weintraub, whose escapades I first covered here. The fifth installment of his adventures – entitled ‘A week that really happened to me’ – has been translated … Continue reading
Just Ask Your Pop
Davis Cup, First Round The long crescendo transfiguring a dull murmur into a vast roar, stillness giving way to ripples as an exuberant accelerando tears through the throng. Patriotism granted a throat and a body: this is Davis Cup, in … Continue reading
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Must Be Nice
It is a nice question which of this weekend’s inevitable crop of bizarro Davis Cup results has thus far pushed eyebrows the highest. How about John Isner going down to Paul Capdeville in a tight five setter? The giant American … Continue reading
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Degrees of Impossibility
If ever a case could be made for the previous year’s Davis Cup victor to be granted a first round bye the following year, this is the moment. Serbia will open its 2011 campaign against India, who long ago qualified … Continue reading
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Shatter’d & sunder’d
As cavalry engagements are reckoned, the Charge of the Light Brigade is pretty celebrated, though if you only know a little of military history you might imagine the outing was a successful one. After all, Tennyson’s poem isn’t called the … Continue reading
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The Charge of the French Brigade
‘Flash’d all their sabres bare, Flash’d as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army while All the world wonder’d . . .’ It occurs to me, apropos of Guy Forget’s seemingly baffling decision to play Gilles … Continue reading
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