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Charlie Bricker of the spoke with Jesse Levine
about his recent success, his first win over Donald
Young in a long time, and about his plans after the Knoxville Challenger, which ends this weekend. Bricker mentions the Australian qualifying, but ...
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Nick Bollettieri has written a two-part series (the
second installment will be published soon at The Tennis
Recruiting Network) called "Beat the Cheat." It's a topic that concerns every single junior tennis player, so Andy Brandi of the Harold ...
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Snow is the word of the day here
in Kalamazoo, so it seems like a good evening
to catch up on a lot of miscellaneous items I've run across the past few days. It's not too often that any junior tournament offers a WTA Tier I event qualifying wild card ...
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Rover
found this 3/8/2008 on
tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com
Denis Kudla and Junior Ore will have the
thrill of a lifetime Monday when the two 15-year-olds
from the Junior Champions Tennis Center in College Park, Md. provide the opening act for the Pete Sampras vs. Roger Federer exhibition at Madison Square Garden. Richard Pagliaro of Tennis Week has an in-depth look at the boys' reactions to this opportunity and, through their coach Frank Salazar, ...
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If you've been reading zootennis for any length
of time, you know I'm a huge fan of
Joel Drucker, both as a writer and a person. We first connected over three years ago after I read his book Jimmy Connors Saved My Life . In addition to working for ...
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When I interviewed Melanie Oudin after the Orange
Bowl final last year, she told me that although
she had always wanted to be a professional tennis player, she had not yet relinquished her amateur status. But she said then, after winning 27 ...
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In this edition of Coaches Q an A,
Harold Solomon of the Harold Solomon Tennis Institute in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida responds to a question on the importance of winning on the junior level. Q.Many coaches tell their students that focusing on ...
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When Patrick McEnroe was revealed as the USTA's
choice for GM of Elite Development, one of the
initiatives mentioned was working more closely with academies. Only a few weeks later comes this announcement that Nick Bollettieri will assist in the ...
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Rover
found this 6/6/2008 on
tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com
With the French Open Juniors winding down--it will
be Jerzy Janowicz of Poland against Tsung-Hua Yang of
Chinese Taipei in the boys and two Romanians, Elena Bogdan and Simona Halep, for the girls title. Janowicz, of course was a finalist at the U.S. Open Jrs. last year, and Yang was runner-up this year at the Australian Open Jrs., but neither girl has been in a Grand Slam final before. The ...
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In this installment, Andy Brandi of the Harold
Solomon Tennis Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Florida discusses the
advantages of cross-training for tennis and the appropriate time to focus solely on one sport. Andy Brandi responds: One sport to look ...
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Rover
found this 8/10/2008 on
tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com
©Colette Lewis 2008-- Kalamazoo MI-- Austin Krajicek overcame
a rough start, Jordan Cox overcame a rough middle,
but both ended by adding their names to the long list of champions at the USTA Boys 18 and 16 National Championships in Kalamazoo. Cox, the 7th seed, downed No. 6 seed Denis Kudla 6-1, 6-7(2), 6-3, recovering from the disappointment of failing to convert four match points in ...
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found this 8/22/2008 on
tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com
Kristie Ahn defeated No. 4 seed and 105th-ranked
Anna Lapushchenkova of Russia 6-4, 6-4 in the final
round of qualifying Friday at Flushing Meadows, and joins fellow wild card Shenay Perry in the women's main draw next week. (Alexas Glatch is still on the court as I write this.) Ahn didn't lose a set in her three matches, and if my brief research is correct, she will be the youngest competitor ...
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Rodney Harmon, Director of Men's Tennis for USTA
High Performance since 2002, is no longer employed by
the organization. There have been no details released, but Harmon and High Performance Coach Martin Van Daalen are no longer there, joining coaches ...
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Bricker talks to Levine