Monday, October 16, 2006

Davydenko, Ljubicic and Blake: the working class moves into struggle for a spot in the Tennis Masters Cup.

Shanghai is closer for the players who won the three ATP tournaments of the past week. Davydenko (Kremlin Cup winner), Ljubicic (BA-CA tennis trophy back to back winner) and Blake (Stockholm Open back to back winner) moved a step closer to the Masters Cup field. More than someone is saying that those players are not very talented and deserve a spot in Masters Cup just because of their hard work.
Talent is what eggheads and writers from time immemorial have been talking about. But what is the talent? That’s a million dollar question. Talent means a natural endowment, an innate ability of a superior quality. Talent is something extraordinary. And works from talented guys are always stunning. But how do you measure the talent of a player? Is talent alone enough to succeed in high level sports? So many questions today and no answers. Almost anyone who loves tennis knows that nowadays there's just one player who has a brilliant, amazing, glaring, undeniable talent and that's Roger Federer. As you watch him play sometimes you ask yourself how it is possible to do what you just saw him do.
But, you know, apart from Federer, all the top players are more or less skilled, hard workers and fit. So, on what basis con you classify their talent? Does it make sense? So many questions, definitely!

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"Cementi di Gloria" è l'opera prima di Paolo Ricaldi, aka Mr. Pemulis, che nell'estate 2007 ha girato in lungo e largo i tornei di preparazione agli Us Open - il c.d. minicircuito chiamato Us Open Series - è tornato sano e salvo, anche se un po' intossicato di Tennis, e ci ha raccontato quanto visto, sentito e percepito nel Nuovo Mondo.
In questo reportage, che è un viaggio picaresco nel nordamerica, intorno al "vuoto" dello showbiz, l'autore alterna con grande potenza espressiva cronache sportive esilaranti, pagine di letteratura minimalista, storie surreali, incubi metropolitani abitati da personaggi dai nomi improbabili e aneddoti irresistibili; e lo fa utilizzando una vasta gamma di registri, che vanno dal comico al noir. Ne risulta un inno sghembo al tennis e alla vita in generale, che fa' di Ricaldi, la "next big thing" del panorama letterario mediterraneo.