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Superstar twilight
February 26th, 2009 
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The day the Beijing Games in three of its biggest stars lose starts with heavy rainfalls. Rapid formation of small lakes all over the Olympic Center, many competitions can not start on time. So it’s been almost eight clock at night, when Roger Federer finally the center court of the Olympic Green Tennis Center enters. Sensitive, it is cool after all these days schwülheißen become, and perhaps this is what the Swiss world number from the first step brings. Or is it the fact that he is next Monday the first 236 weeks since the leading position in the world rankings to Rafael Nadal must submit? Perhaps he has just eaten the wrong Dumplings.
In any case, get the master of the elegant game in this stadium dodecagon no leg on the ground. 6:4 he loses the first set against American James Blake, and in Tiebreak of the second sentence, he in his desperate battle against the end of the Olympic dream as many balls as previously kicked in months. Um 21.30 clock then he must pack his bag, he once again beckons to the audience and makes them quickly.
Like all international superstars of the sport, from Kobe Bryant and Dirk Nowitzki on Michael Phelps, the Chinese also had the Swiss in particular to the heart closed. Because they believe that the light of his fame leave their Olympic games appear even brighter. Therefore, they have suffered with him, and groaned, but finally his opponent James Blake beklatscht. Whoever suggests the best, at least one must be good.
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But because of the rain all the games in the evening pushed, is after the end of Federer’s still far from final. There is still one of those special games on the plan, China once again against his Super-Ego, the United States, Li Na against Venus Williams. It is the struggle of the underdogs against the Star, National jersey against designer outfit, trousers against rock, good loose against merciless power tennis.
On which side are the spectators, it is clear. The stadium is also just ten still well filled, and there is cheer for Li Na, as it was on the pitch. Only laboriously the Portuguese referee gets the crowd with appeasing the friendly gestures and hiss in the handle. The rest will initially worried the title personally. Venus Williams is not the backdrop of impressive results quickly and proposes 3:0 from the obvious nervousness of their respondent capital – until they too, with huge, awesome beraunten surcharges from one or the other Bredouille shall be exempt.
On external support they may not hope. Also double fault, the genteel procure elsewhere outweigh be solved here cheering from storms, is finally point. Moreover, each half-hearted “USA” reputation with a “Beat USA” answered. Before now, but again the Chinese nationalism under the unfair, one must say that this blows from all sides with laughter is acknowledged.
John McEnroe is 50
February 17th, 2009 admin 
He boils with rage, spraying rage – and has a feel like a god. Tennis ace John McEnroe behaves on the pitch as one of its best times.
“The ball was out,” yells John McEnroe with hochrotem head and tense body posture. “Clearly the off.” But he can rant and scream as loud as he wants, the decision of the judge is scheduled. And McEnroe reacts as he is his entire tennis career has done: insulted. This is the Champions Cup in Boston a fun event. Old stars are compared, but McEnroe reached the final. His opponent is the best tennis player of all time, Pete Sampras. He is twelve years younger than McEnroe, clear favorite and ultimately won with 7:6 and 6:4. All in the hall of the Boston University had a clearer outcome expected. But McEnroe is playing strongly, has nothing of his extraordinary ball feeling loss – but also nothing of his Rüpel image.
He still just wants to win. But he does everything: race, rack, raunzen. “John has worked on himself high standards and can only lose badly. He shoots from the hip through his mouth,” his father John senior said. As a spokesman Wayne Bryan Hall during the Boston Warmspielens read out his CV, he is from the applause of the audience interrupted. McEnroe, however, underlined in his presentation just his hand. In his hooded shirt, he looks like a thirty-year-olds, many twenty year olds do not have such a body durchtrainierten as he, and his commitment is as a teenager, of his first tournament win.
As a bonus to compete McEnroe, hear rock music. It suits him, McEnroe is the rock star of tennis history. He is also her Rüpel. The now slightly curly gray head, in his career at least as many rackets smashed as trophies. The American sports channel ESPN calls it “Winner and whine” (winner and Quengler). Its zenith, the lefty with the strong “Serve and volley” game from 1979 to 1984. Since he won Wimbledon three times, four times the U.S. Open and is in between for three years, the number one world ranking. He has a total of 77 singles and 78-double title win, only Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl have been successful. His Davis Cup 1987 match against Boris Becker is in the U.S. and Germany as a highlight. Both inspire with their marathon match over six hours. Becker wins and speaks of the “biggest game of his career.”
When he was in 1981 Wimbledon final against Björn Borg wins and five-year winning streak of Sweden in the traditional tournament ended, he waived at the gala dinner. The traditional English hosts are, of course “not amused” – and downright shocked when she heard McEnroe justification: “I wanted the evening with my family, friends and people who have supported me to spend, and not with a series of STOCKSTEIFE 70 — and 80-year olds who tell me that I am on the pitch to behave like a fool. ” Already before the Wuschelkopf with the distinctive red headband at the Royal Tennis Club unpleasant noticed when he was there the famous strawberries and cream with the hand and not with the silver spoons for this purpose is.
John McEnroe in his “Prime Time” as number one at Wimbledon at the beginning of the 80s
John McEnroe in his “Prime Time” as number one at Wimbledon at the beginning of the 80s
John McEnroe in his “Prime Time” as number one at Wimbledon at the beginning of the 80s
McEnroe cleaves the tennis world. Fans love its ambition and will to fight. The same fans hulls but often enough the nose, where “BigMac” with the official port (see the Youtube potpourri of McEnroe tirades). “You’re pathetic, this is the last time that I play a match when you are sitting up there,” screams against it attaches to a referee. “That can not be your seriousness. The ball was clearly on the line. The whole stadium’s view, only you do not,” someone else gets to hear.
In the 1987 U.S. Open cost him $ 17,500 this vulgar penalty and a two-lock. 1990, he worked for the Australian Open even disqualified. “As a child I was a big fan of McEnroe, but my parents have banned me, him as a model to take,” says the former first-world Jim Courier.
“He is only on the pitch so fiercely, privately, it can be very friendly,” says Pete Axthelm of Newsweek. The private man McEnroe likes to play guitar, in New York has an art gallery, five children and lives in second marriage with the singer Patty Smyth. On his 50th today Birthday wishes he did not need to be addressed. “Remind me not only that. 50, it sounds so much older than 49″, he says after the awards ceremony in Boston. As McEnroe left the hall, the audience rise from their seats and applaud. You get exactly what they expected of him have strong tennis and strong exchange of words.
Roger Federer is emblematic of the tennis world
December 23rd, 2008 admin 
“Would he have become a footballer, he would probably even be today a national player,” says Seppli Kacovski about his former protege. Kacovski is tennis coach at the training of the Swiss Federation and coaches for years before then youths who become the measure of all things circus is in tennis: Roger Federer.
The unusual settlement, the Monitor, there should be especially clear about what exceptional athletic talent of the current best tennis player in the world. Garnished with a big ambition of the young Swiss had undoubtedly once arrive there, where it currently stands, namely on the first rank of world rankings. Roger Federer is the flagship of the “white sport” and the personalized marketing machine. No collection is sold, whether in a store or through the countless online stores, as well as the smarter of the Confederates. Tennis article on which the name Federer prangt are coveted around the globe.
It was in 2001, when the tennis world for the first time took note of him, in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon on Federer hit series winner Pete Sampras. Seven tournament victories were at “Pistol Pete,” on the credit side. Had so many successes on the holy turf no one else won. Federer was in the U.S. but his master. For the son
a South African and a Swiss followed 2003’s first Wimbledon victory, success at the Masters and U.S. Open. In spring 2004, he assumed the leadership in the world and gave them until today no longer.
Currently, Federer again at Wimbledon actively to a record once more to crack. Four in series, he has the “All England Championships already won. In 2007, his fifth time to succeed. The chances are excellent that, finally, the “turf king” has almost 50 matches in a row on his favorite lining is no longer lost. Incidentally, this is also a best mark. , But records are only meant to be broken, ’said Roger Federer once. A wisdom, he underlines impressively so far.
Career start for B. Becker
December 23rd, 2008 admin 
His trademark is the baseball cap, which it upside down on his head bears. He says it himself, at least, one speaks it depends on what for him was striking. Actually, it is something else that people who are with him come into contact, immediately falls into the eye.
The young man from whom the speech is called Benjamin Becker and is also still active tennis professional. Currently even a good, one of the top 50 of his profession worldwide. The position 44 in the rankings, the 26jährige Saar countries currently. This alone, however, it would hardly make it special. It is the surname, one involuntarily to his namesake Boris recalls, the best and most popular German tennis player of all time. “Meanwhile, I expect already that I am at tournaments to be addressed Boris,” said Benjamin Becker recently at a tournament. That he has developed, and finally he succeeded the late breakthrough.
In autumn last year, played the hitherto unknown student of the Economic and Financial Sciences in Germany’s national headlines when he was at the U.S. Open in the third round to Andre Agassi met. The Americans had previously announced that this is his last tournament on the tour will be. Since the match against Agassi Becker lost henceforth dominated headlines such as’ B. Becker’s career ended Agassis “the first page of the newspapers. That the husband of Steffi Graf in poor physical condition was even ready to be injected, interested under the weight of this headline no more.
Overnight Benjamin Becker was known, created a homepage. His articles have been tennis at online stores offered to autograph cards were hot cakes. Were it not for the surname, perhaps the incident would not have been so perceived. However, so she was possibly the starting gun to a great career but still in the light of the public.
The Year of Novak Djokovic
December 23rd, 2008 admin 
His last performances of the year were far from exemplary for the past months in the career of Novak Djokovic. As a third in the world he had for the Masters finals in Shanghai qualifying, but resigned after three defeats in the group stage and sang from toneless. After a year of continuous flight he paid the enormous speed of his ascent tribute. Powerless and out, however, there are the appearances of the vertical metropolis in China’s economic describe.
An end to forget for the young Serbs in 2007 and the tennis world by storm. The positive aspects outweigh clearly. Until ranking place 3 Djokovic took to the front and so many celebrated victory of historic proportions. As the first professional tennis in his country until he ran around in the final of the U.S. Open before, but there still was subject to clear the First World-Roger Federer. Even with the Grand Slams previously knew of at Munich on tennis rackets Serb trained to convince. He is the positive appearance of the year and the only active members currently believed, the dominance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the long term to break through.
If it fails, it could also off the court with other talent to earn money. He knows that even as an actor to convince. The Serb is a gifted imitator of his colleagues, such as he had after the victory against Moya in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open a grand appearance. Spontaneous reporter asked him in the U.S. TV channel after the first interview on the square to take his talent to the audience to show fact annoyed Djokovic then Russian Maria Sharapova, then Nadal. The 23,000 spectators raged with enthusiasm.
Andy Roddick: Progress through technology
December 23rd, 2008 admin 
The correct contact point of the ball is a basic condition, in order to be able to play tennis successfully.
The contact point is the most important part of total shot and decide the success or failure of each stroke. Of course, the perfect venue from many previous actions, movements and the racket handle, and you can not isolate him. However, the perfect venue for every stroke should be established. You have to know what everything has to do before to make it correct to “catch”. Especially when you consider that the contact time between ball and racket on average only four milliseconds is! The transfertime from the hand of the central nervous system, where the contact is registered, is longer than the contact time itself, if the player deliberately perceives the meeting, the ball is already underway to opponents. Therefore, the meeting moment nothing more correct and also not in the short period before it.
Grip forehand side
In the presence of both moving forward and meeting point inwards (increasingly gebeugter arm in the elbow) with increasing right-hand turn toward Western grip. This fact is very important because it affects not only the strike movement, but also the swirl intensity of the ball and the racquet Ausschwungrichtung. As the venue is shifted to the back (to the continental grip), the more space is for a predominantly horizontal movement rackets are available for the ball speed is important, but the less room for a “by-down-to-top” movement, which decides on the spin. This vertical motion until quite late.
Continental grip
That is why, for example, the continental grip on the presence in the modern tennis completely inappropriate, because so little topspin right to beat and with the bat only with difficulty under the correct venue comes. Moreover, with this handle a considerable burden on the wrist, because the palm practically lies on the handle and the ball is very little resistance by the hand is set. The elbow joint is burdened with that because you handle only durchgestrecktem arm to beat. In addition to moving the meeting point too far to the right and backward by gravity.
Western Grip
This handle is the second extreme case. The venue is shifted far from the body. This brings in benefits for the topspin, because during the strike movement enough room for the downward and upward movement of the club head in front of the venue, but the ball loses speed, because he is at the end of a mostly horizontal motion racket in a strongly growing emerging leadership racket hit . Then follows the “Scheibenwischerausschwung”, which is a natural consequence of the movement of the Ellbogelenks (pronation) and Schultergelenks (internal rotation of the upper arm) in this phase.
Eastern grip, semi-Western grip
From the above, it is clear that the presence SchlägerhaItung one between these two extreme types handle is recommended. Here are the Eastern and the semi-Western grip, which could be meaningful limits can be. And in fact recommended for the modern forehand best to handle about near or between these two types of grip. Thus, the best time on his forehand player Pete Sampras of the world’s lethal forehand strokes “shot” and then shoots today Roger Federer regularly from his opponents. Between the above mentioned two types of grip is enough space for individual creation and adaptation.
