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The history of tennis fashion show broke my camera.
Maybe they were penalized because they quit (withdrew) from the doubles.Frank Dancevic & his partner Fred Neimeyer won a round of doubles at the Canadian Open by defeating Julien Benneteau & Michael Llodra (7.5,6.3). The draw list states very clearly than advancing to the second round in doubles for the Rogers Cup secures you 75 points, yet the ATP deducted Frank's points of 46 to 41. What happened to the 75 points he & Fred earned? I double-checked and all the other players who lost in the second round in doubles (including Roger Federer) got 75 points but these two.
Just curious...
well worth the price of admission even though i lost $60 at jane/finch... oh well at least i got away with my life.
I know you like to joke a lot, so I'm assuming you're kidding about the $60?
i would have said more if i was joking. it was more being a sissy at a bank machine.. i didn't have enough money for parking at the rexall centre so i had to use a bank machine at the jane/finch mall. after pressing "withdraw 60" i was so concerned about getting my card back after the transaction that I forgot to grab my money. i've left my card behind previously at bank machines so i was extra concerned on not doing it at jane/finch. i'm sure the money went to somebody less fortunate though, so it's ok i guess, but more than likely it went to some already rich jane/finch drug dealer.
so my ticket was actually worth $ 85, but still well worth it, we yelled some pretty juicy stuff at johnny mac, got on the jumbo tv screen and we proposed to anna, so it's all good ^_^
did you go on any days???
dancevic drew safin first round. i think he can beat safin, especially if the weather is humid and the match drags on - which greatly increases the chances of numerous safin meltdowns.
Dancevic played well in the Qs, but not too dominant (was broken several times, which is surprising), that was heavy fighting. We'll see.
So, now he's beaten Wessels and meets Blake in Stockholm in the last match of the day.
Let's go Frank! You can do it!
Canada's Vasek Pospisil is in the Junior Boys' doubles final with partner
Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) after their opponents Stephen Donald (AUS) and
Greg Jones (AUS) retired. Pospisil and Dimitrov were up 4-0 when Donald and Jones retired.
The pair will be playing Jonathan Eysseric and Jerome Inzerillo, both of France, in the finals.
No - he's injured.why no mention of frank dancevic? is he not part of the team?
No - he's injured.
What happened to the Dancevic/Falla match? It was cancelled yesterday and I don't see Frank's name in the draw anymore.
What happened to the Dancevic/Falla match? It was cancelled yesterday and I don't see Frank's name in the draw anymore.
According to the draw page, both Dancevic and Falla pulled out due to back problems.
http://www.atptennis.com/en/common/.../www.atptennis.com/1/posting/2008/404/mds.pdf
(see the bottom of the first page)
I expect we'll have Milan Pokrajac of Canada (who had the best tourney amongs the Canadians) trying to hold his own against Mergea.
Serious shoulder injury, who took him out for two years, starting in 2004, it seems.Martin Verkerk?
Is his time off the tour related to injuries, or is it just quitting... and now trying to come back?
Martin Verkerk is doubtless a fierce competitor, but a modest one. See his interview (in French):
http://www.rds.ca/tennis/chroniques/248052.html
...Chvojka...!
... pokrajac...
... Dancevic ...
Wow, lots of Slavic/Eastern European names in CDN!
Same here, btw, in soccer as well as tennis. Very athletic and successful ... and some really cool-sounding names. Although Philip Bester is kind of a cool name, too.[/QUO
How about Daniel Nestor? He's a Serbian immigrant.
Canada's always been a nation of Eastern European immigrants who are successful in all walks of life.
Our men fought hard during the first day (on outdoor clay), but ...
Chile 2 0 Canada
R1 - F.GONZALEZ (CHI) def. P.POLANSKY (CAN)
7-6(4) 7-6(3) 5-7 6-2
R2 - N.MASSU (CHI) def. F.NIEMEYER (CAN)
3-6 6-4 6-4 5-7 6-3
http://www.daviscup.com/ties/tie.asp?tie=100010175
Unfortunately, the match won't probably be shown anywhere in North America:
F. Dancevic 6 6 6
D. Nalbandian 4 2 4
Well, this was a well-deserved Wild-Card if there ever was one
The greatest singles result by a Canadian in quite a while ....
Net: 25 of 35 = 71 %
Next Bobby Reynolds. Go, Frank!