General News Snippets from the Tour

[Tennis Fan]

Did you know that 3 out of 8 players in the ATP finals have their origin in the region of Herzegovina? Djokoivc and Raonic are Serbs whose families are from Western part of Montenegro which is traditionally called Old Herzegovina, while Cilic is from Medjugorje which is in Western Herzegovina, Roman Catholics probably remember his birthplace from when it was a place of pilgrimage ever since some children "saw" Virgin Mary there back in the 80s. Here you have that region on the map with nearby Dubrovnik that is known to you:.


https://www.google.co.nz/maps/dir/Niksic,+Montenegro/Međugorje,+Bosnia+and+Herzegovina/@43.0141778,17.7413827,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x134da9ab6eec36c9:0x14c7a90f80738558!2m2!1d18.9561661!2d42.7804735!1m5!1m1!1s0x134b6d2f8d4fe3b5:0x9dc250dd6284739d!2m2!1d17.6629672!2d43.200913!3e0

Very interesting.

 

[isabelle]

Franco Davin is the new Fognini's coach (he used to coach Nalby, Gaudio, Delpo)

 

[britbox]

World number three Milos Raonic confirms he has split with coach and former French Open winner Carlos Moya.

Story: http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/38164483

 

[Mastoor]

Troicki got married which was a rare opportunity for Serbian Davis Cup Team to meet together. They don't do that for tennis in last 4 years or so, only weddings.

 

[isabelle]

Troicki got married which was a rare opportunity for Serbian Davis Cup Team to meet together. They don't do that for tennis in last 4 years or so, only weddings.

weddings are more interesting than DC (champagne, good food and music etc...)

 

[Mastoor]

weddings are more interesting than DC (champagne, good food and music etc...)

There is good food and the music they like everywhere in Serbia. Ant they have golubari (pigeon keepers) to provide Novak with the food he eats.

 

[Mastoor]

This is how Judy Murray sees what she calls "Big 4". In case you wonder, Federer is Paul (for whatever reason, McCartney was always sitting whenever they had shots in this formation), Lennon is her son, Djoker is still not too bad Harrison, but poor Rafa is only Ringo.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CydnVYfVIAASlkf.jpg

 

[britbox]

I'd have

McCartney - Federer
Lennon - Rafa
Harrison - Djoker
Ringo - Murray

 

[Carol]

But 'poor Rafa is only Ringo'? your are funny Mastoor, you should think that Ringo at the end looks the most normal and more artist than four of them (Beatles). You also should ask Judy to whom she has to be very pleased ( I'm sure she is) because thanks to him his son is the player that he is today....

http://www.tennisworldusa.org/news/...-murray-nadal-convinced-me-to-move-to-spain-/

 

[Tennis Fan]

I must've missed where it explained what Judy meant. It just looks like a regular photoshopped picture. Are people guessing what her intentions were and if it was based on the actual Beatles hierarchy?

 

[Carol]

Rafa always keeping his feet on the ground

http://www.tennisworldusa.org/news/...-2017-i-want-to-win-but-the-younger-players-/

 

[mrzz]

This is how Judy Murray sees what she calls "Big 4". In case you wonder, Federer is Paul (for whatever reason, McCartney was always sitting whenever they had shots in this formation), Lennon is her son, Djoker is still not too bad Harrison, but poor Rafa is only Ringo.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CydnVYfVIAASlkf.jpg

...and they accuse Trump of bad hair...

 

[Tennis Fan]

Rafa always keeping his feet on the ground

http://www.tennisworldusa.org/news/...-2017-i-want-to-win-but-the-younger-players-/

Ha ha ha, I started to post this and then thought, nah, Carol's got my back.

 

[Mastoor]

But 'poor Rafa is only Ringo'? your are funny Mastoor, you should think that Ringo at the end looks the most normal and more artist than four of them (Beatles). You also should ask Judy to whom she has to be very pleased ( I'm sure she is) because thanks to him his son is the player that he is today....

http://www.tennisworldusa.org/news/...-murray-nadal-convinced-me-to-move-to-spain-/

Yes, Nadal gave him a hint that weather in Spain is better than weather in Scotland. Only later he learned that any country has weather better than Scotland.

 

[Carol]

Yes, Nadal gave him a hint that weather in Spain is better than weather in Scotland. Only later he learned that any country has weather better than Scotland.

North of Spain weather is as bad as Scotland but he chose training in Mallorca , later in Miami but what I hear he likes to come back to Mallorca where the weather is better and has good players to training with

 

[Carol]

Top ten worst tennis serves ever......

 

[Mastoor]

North of Spain weather is as bad as Scotland but he chose training in Mallorca , later in Miami but what I hear he likes to come back to Mallorca where the weather is better and has good players to training with

So he trained where Rafa is from, Mallorca? That means they practically grew up together. I wasn't aware of it.

 

[mrzz]

Top ten worst tennis serves ever......

See, you bunch of misogynists tennis fans of hell, a top ten list with men and women alone and the first place is a woman! On your face, losers!

(Even if for me Sharapova´s is the first)

 

[mrzz]

Here´s something interesting that it is circulating here in south america and maybe haven ´t yet reached the northern hemisphere:

Chilean newspapers are saying that Marcelo Rios will coach Tommy Haas in his scheduled return in AO 2017.

 

[Carol]

I've read in a Spanish Newspaper that Uncle Toni is coaching Christian Garin who is 20 years old, #1 in Chile and also training with Nadal