Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Upcoming players in action


No doubt which were the upsets of the day: the teenagers Karin Knapp and Juan Martin Del Potro beat higher ranked and and well-known players like Ana Lena Groenefeld (Luxembourg – first round) and Carlos Moya (Mumbai – first round) respectively. There’s more: the both Karin and Juan Martin scored the best win in their young career.
Karin won with an impressive score: 6-0 6-4. The Italian is doing better and better every day. What a serve, guys. Anna-Lena: what a slump. She has a 5-9 record since Roland Garros, with five first-round losses in her nine appearances. It seems an identity crisis, rather than a technical regress. Ana Lena reminds me Jelena Jankovic in the first part of the season.
Relating to Juan Martin Del Potro, The 18-year-old talented Argentine defeated a former World No.1. All right. Congrats but Carlos Moya had a bad day, to say the least. Hopefully the Giant Argentine (6 ft 5 in. tall) will keep his feet on the ground, ‘cause he is top material and has more than a chance to move up and climb the ranking.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

ciao...sei un fan di maria sharapova?

Anonymous said...

Yes I'm

Anonymous said...

Ana Lena: a hopeless case? I hoped she will have had a good week there! She was runner-up last year at Fortis Championships, but what's wrong with her? When you talk about identity crisis do you mean something like a mental and physical fall down?
Karin...Oh Karin...the first time I saw her she was so young and won a junior tournament in Milan at the age of 13...Back in that day...I feel my self so old when I say “back in that day”.

Anonymous said...

When you talk about identity crisis do you mean something like a mental and physical fall down?

More or less I mean that!

Terza di Copertina.

"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.