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Post by Teresa on Jun 29, 2005 6:08:58 GMT 3
Lau I just saw that Argentina did not include Canas on the team for tie against Australia (I think the word is tie? and its Australia is'nt it?  ) How come? |
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Post by lau on Jun 29, 2005 13:23:25 GMT 3
Long to explain (doping investigation ) all the info is in the arg. players thread....  |
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Post by annie on Jul 5, 2005 10:22:38 GMT 3
Philippoussis out of Davis Cup team
Mark Philippoussis has been ruled out of Australia's Davis Cup quarter-final against Argentina this month because of an ankle injury, with Peter Luczak called into the team to replace him.World number two Lleyton Hewitt and Davis Cup veteran Wayne Arthurs remain in the team.
These two will most likely shoulder the burden after the loss of Philippoussis and the retirement of record-breaking doubles player Todd Woodbridge.
The 28-year-old Philippoussis had not recovered from the ankle tendon injury he suffered during Wimbledon, Australia's Davis Cup captain John Fitzgerald said on Tuesday.
Philippoussis, a former Wimbledon and U.S. Open runner-up, has slumped to 208 in the rankings and was beaten in the second round of Wimbledon last month by Russian Marat Safin.
Fitzgerald has now turned to Australia's third-ranked player, world number 147 Luczak, for the tie, to be played on grass at the Sydney Olympic tennis centre from July 15-17.
Luczak comes in alongside world number 183 Chris Guccione, who made his first Davis Cup appearance in Australia's 5-1 defeat of Austria in the first round in March.
"With Todd Woodbridge's recent retirement from tennis and Mark Philippoussis not fit, the door has opened for Peter Luczak and Chris Guccione to step up into the Australia side," Fitzgerald said.
Australia faces a difficult tie against an Argentina team including world number 10 David Nalbandian, number 12 Mariano Puerta and 15th-ranked Guillermo Coria.
Eurosport - 05/07/2005
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Post by annie on Jul 6, 2005 21:55:02 GMT 3
Oh Andrada this one is for you....and God help the Romanians  Davis Cup Nominations CROATIA v ROMANIA Venue: Split, Croatia (carpet – indoors) Croatia Ivan Ljubicic Mario Ancic Ivo Karlovic Sasa Tuksar Captain: Niki Pilic Romania Andrei Pavel Victor Hanescu Razvan Sabau Gabriel Trifu Captain: Adrian Marcu |
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Post by Laney on Jul 15, 2005 18:12:41 GMT 3
Wooow, take a look at this: seems like things were getting out of control after the Hewitt-Coria match: Hewitt & Coria trade verbal blows
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Australia's Lleyton Hewitt saw off Guillermo Coria of Argentina in a bad-tempered Davis Cup World Group quarter-final rubber in Sydney.
Hewitt put Australia 1-0 up with a 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 1-6 6-2 victory before the accusations flew after the match.
"He cannot behave the way he does, abusing the captain, abusing players, abusing everyone," said Coria. "I won't repeat what I heard out there."
Hewitt responded: "I didn't say one thing to him for the whole match."
David Nalbandian led Wayne Arthurs 6-3 7-6 (10-8) 5-7 in the second rubber when rain stopped play for the day.
Hewitt and Coria traded insults after their 173-minute battle, with Coria revisiting stories concerning Hewitt that first surfaced during the Australian Open with on-court incidents with Argentinians Juan Ignacio Chela and Nalbandian.
"As a person outside the game it's one thing, but on the court I really felt like killing him," said Coria.
"Rafael Nadal jumps and does a lot of gestures on the court, but he doesn't celebrate your own mistakes, whereas Lleyton cheers for other peoples' mistakes and he's very aggressive.
"It's very difficult not to feel provoked and not to get into his game, but as a person I would rather not win a single tournament in my life than be like him."
A dumbfounded Hewitt said: "If the worst thing I do is say 'come on' out on the court, I don't think it's that bad compared to the guy spitting in the referee's direction when he wasn't happy with the call.
"He wasn't happy with the court surface, and he tried hip-and-shouldering (bumping) me at the end of the first set and he complained the whole day. I'm not quite sure what his issue is."
He added: "I asked him at one stage when he was grabbing his private parts at me, numerous times, and I asked him if he had an issue.
"I'm still struggling to deal with what I actually did wrong. To be perfectly honest, he's arrogant, and he lost the match today and he's looking for every excuse in the book. He's a sore loser.
"It didn't feel like a tennis match, but it was dumb by them. Very rarely have I lost matches when people try to get into my face.
"What Chela did (spitting) at the Australian Open was disgraceful and it's carried on and I don't think David Nalbandian is the cleanest guy about the hip and shoulder (bump) at the Australian Open.
"He caused that situation at the Australian Open and he tried to act dumbfounded after the match." news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/4681275.stm |
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Post by pau on Jul 15, 2005 22:36:27 GMT 3
Thanks Laney!! I can't believe what both did and said, it's amazing, and hewitt... why he started messing around with all the argentinean players? both did things in the wrong way... hewitt must not celebrate the other player's mistakes, but guillermo should have ignored it... I know it's not easy, but.. whatever |
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Post by something on Jul 16, 2005 12:22:19 GMT 3
i remember that..
i took my brother to the 2 singles rubbers on friday. we saw coria showing the umpire the inner part of his leg... and the two of them sort of bumping shoulders.
very argy-bargy.
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Post by raghda on Jul 16, 2005 12:26:45 GMT 3
Thanks Laney For this Amazing Article Hwitt is known for his Bizzared manners but I didnt know that Coria would respond by this was he must have been badly provoced!  |
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Post by Teresa on Jul 16, 2005 15:33:07 GMT 3
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ;D Congrats Lau  Argentina beat Australia 3 - 0 in the doubles Congrats Nalbandian and Puerta Lau who plays Hewitt in the singles rubber tomorrow? |
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Post by raghda on Jul 16, 2005 16:18:01 GMT 3
Oh Teresa Sorry for that Congrats Argentina I wish egypt had any teams thre |
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Post by Teresa on Jul 17, 2005 19:19:09 GMT 3
[glow=red,2,300]C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S[/glow]  ARGENTINA LAU I am so happy for you  OMG those boys were on fire today But tell me what happened in Coria's match? Did his opponet whatshisname retire? and WOW David beat Hewitt in three sets AWESOME and as you said.........on GRASS |
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Post by Teresa on Jul 17, 2005 19:56:18 GMT 3
I LOVE THIS ;D  |
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Post by Teresa on Jul 17, 2005 19:57:58 GMT 3
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Post by lau on Jul 17, 2005 23:01:00 GMT 3
[glow=red,2,300]C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S[/glow] ARGENTINA LAU I am so happy for you OMG those boys were on fire today But tell me what happened in Coria's match? Did his opponet whatshisname retire? and WOW David beat Hewitt in three sets AWESOME and as you said.........on GRASS Oh, Yeah Teresa!!! ;D ;D I`ve already done my *crazy victory dance* in the arg. players thread ;D ;D ;D The boy were on fire!!! Specially David today against Lleyton and Mariano yesterday in the doubles match ;D About Coria´s 3 set match..... I´m clueless about all DC rules...  . I guess that as the tie had already a winner, the 5th point could be decided in 3 sets...  I could check it in the DC site...., but I don´t feel like  , hahaha. |
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Post by Madou on Jul 18, 2005 7:03:09 GMT 3
Yeah that's it Lau, as the last match did not matter, it had to be played in three sets  Always like that in DC I think. Well ! Congratulations to Arg. boys who were awesome all this Week End, even if it's sad Coria and Hewitt did have an argument on court. Can't wait for next round ^_^! Hey Lau, if there were an Arg vs Russia final... Who do you think you would sit for ? |
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Always like that in DC I think.