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Bright Aussie tennis future being moulded in clay
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Davis Cup captain John Fitzgerald has hailed the recruitment of Spanish claycourt coach Felix Mantilla as one of the most significant developments in Australian tennis in decades. Mantilla has been appointed to nurture Australia’s next generation of stars and, given we have the most exciting batch of juniors in ...19 hours ago -
Newcombe not convinced by Tomic
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Australian tennis great John Newcombe believes 2010 could make or break the burgeoning career of Bernard Tomic. Tomic is widely considered the most likely successor to Lleyton Hewitt as Australia’s next world class player, but Newcombe has reservations about whether the young Queenslander has what it takes to ...19 hours ago -
Newcombe not convinced Tomic is Hewitt’s successor
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Melbourne, Dec. 25 (ANI): Australian tennis great John Newcombe does not support the view that Queenslander Bernard Tomic is the most likely successor to Lleyton Hewitt as his country’s next world class player.“I think he’s got a long way to go. He’s done well in the junior ranks and has got a couple of [...]1 day ago -
Molik and Tomic receive Open wildcards
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Alicia Molik’s comeback to world tennis has been given a major boost with a wildcard entry into the main draw of next month’s Australian Open. Open organisers on Thursday announced two women’s and three men’s wildcards for the first grand slam event of 2010. Talented Melbourne teenager Olivia Rogowska was ...1 day ago -
Molik & Tomic get wildcards to Aussie Open.
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Alicia Molik’s comeback to world tennis was given a major boost this morning when she was given a wildcard into the main draw of Australian Open 2010.Australian Open organisers announced two women’s and three men’s wildcards today.Talented Melbourne teenager Olivia Rogowska was given the other women’s ...1 day ago -
Wild About the Wildcards
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Discretionary wildcards for the Australian Open have just been announced! I held off writing for today until they had been, due to having not much else to say. There arent any epically huge surprises. As we know, the playoff winners were Casey Dellacqua and Nick Lindahl, so theyre in. Discretionaries in the women go ...2 days ago -
At Your Discretion
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So... um... The December Showdown is over. Lindahl and Dellacqua are through to the main draw of the Australian Open. So what am I going to talk about now? December is a useless month, honestly. Do the players reeeeeeeally need an off season? Doesnt anyone ever think of the bloggers? I shall have to do the best I ...4 days ago -
Tomic loses in 5 sets in Aussie wildcard playoff.
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Nick Lindahl has defeated Bernard Tomic in a five-set thriller at Melbourne Park to win the AO Play-off and a wildcard into Australian Open 2010.Lindahl saved five match points in the fourth set to overcome a determined Tomic in front of a large crowd, 6-7(6) 6-1 4-6 7-6(8) 6-3.After the match a relieved and elated ...5 days ago -
Dellacqua marks comeback to form with Australian Open wild card
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Melbourne, Dec 20 (DPA) Injury-plagued Casey Dellacqua Sunday proved that she is back to being fit as she defeated Olivia Rogowska 1-6, 7-6(9), 6-3 in just under two hours Sunday to collect a wild card entry into the Australian Open.Joining her from the men’s side will be Nick Lindahl, whose title performance at the ...5 days ago -
Nick and Casey Win Their Way In
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We have our winners! After some epic matches at Melbourne Park, Casey Dellacqua and Nick Lindahl are through to the main draw at the Australian Open. Casey Dellacqua was no surprise, really - but after she went down so hard in the first set to Olivia Rogowska, I thought she was in serious trouble. This is the second ...6 days ago -
Tomic and Dellacqua within sight of wildcards
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Australian tennis prodigy Bernard Tomic is just one more win away from a berth in his second Australian Open grand slam event. Tomic will play NSW’s Nick Lindahl in the final of the Australian Open play-off on Sunday, with the winner receiving a wildcard into first grand slam of 2010. Fourth seed Tomic recorded a ...6 days ago -
Praising Peers
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So I sooooooooo was not fair to Sally Peers. I thought she was going to get pulverised by Casey Dellacqua, but at the beginning of the match it was Peers doing the pulverising. When I checked in with the score, Peers was leading 5-0 in the first set. Against Dellacqua, that is something - even for top players. Peers ...6 days ago -
Tomic a win away from Australian Open wild card
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Melbourne, Dec 19 (DPA) US Open junior champion Bernard Tomic is now just a win away from earning the Australian Open wild card with a 7-6(4), 6-4 semi-final defeat of Kaden Hensel here Saturday.The winner of the week-long showdown, which concludes Sunday, receives an entry into the Jan 17-31 opening Grand Slam of the ...6 days ago -
More of the December Daze
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So I was wrong about Monika Wejnert pulling an upset - Olivia Rogowska defeated her in two close, but straight, sets. That said, Wejnert is going to be one to look out for, and I really hope that she gets wildcarded into a few events here and there throughout the Australian summer. By winning the 18s title she got a ...1 week ago -
Marquee Matches in Melbourne
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At any other time of the year, Im sure I would find the wildcard playoff for the Australian Open terribly, terribly dull and hardly worth paying attention to. It is a mark of how bored I am that I find it as fascinating as I do. But fascinating I do find it, and there are some pretty intriguing match ups in there. ...1 week ago -
Tomic and Cash team up for World Tennis Challenge.
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Rising tennis teen Bernard Tomic will finetune for the Australian Open by playing at the World Tennis Challenge.Tomic, 17, has agreed to play in the novel World Tennis Challenge in Adelaide next January.The Adelaide tournament, in which a retired star partners a current player in a teams format, ends only four days ...1 week ago -
Liv Scrapes In
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I dont know how Olivia Rogowska got through to the quarters of the December showdown playing the way she did - she lost two matches, for heavens sakes! - but she did. The rules of roubd robin have always been completely inscrutable to me. But Im glad she did - actually, let me qualify that. If she lifts her game, Ill ...1 week ago -
Offseason Newsreels: Open trials. Secret Weddings.
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1. Despite having her one year ban suspended, the ITF claims that Yanina Wickmayer is still not eligible to play.ITF spokesman Nick Imison said Tuesday that both players are still banned ”until such point that we receive any further communication to suggest otherwise”.Imison said the ITF is waiting to hear from ...1 week ago -
Coming Clean on Klein
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I think its safe to say that Brydan Klein will not be winning the play-off wildcard from the December showdown - not only has he now been beaten by James Duckworth, Kaden Hensel (of whom I have never heard) owned him today. A lot of things will need to go his way if he wants to progress through... Klein is a player ...1 week ago -
Slamming Down in December
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The annual December showdown has started again at Melbourne Park. Nominally, this is the playoff for wildcards for the Australian Open, but I personally like to think of it as the thing that keeps Jodi amused in December. Theres precious little else going on and its always kind of cool to see the up and coming ...1 week ago
