Armada Española (for all the Spanish players!!)

[lau]

There´s a thread for Nadal (and I guess it might be one for Ferrero somewhere...)..., but I thought of creatiing this thread for the rest of the Spanish players
One of my fave Spanish boys won the BA ATP today!!!
Carlos Moyá (aka Lord Carlos, aka Mr. Spanish hotness) defeated Volandri 76 64 to win the Copa Telmex in Buenos Aires! ;D ;D
Well done, Charly! I hope you are back!!

[Annie]

Oh I am sooooooooo happy ;D ;D ;D I love Carlos and I truly hope this is another beginning for him!!!!!!!

Vamos Charly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lau]

Carlos is almost local here In all the matches he played this week he was the player the crowd was cheering for. And he adores Buenos Aires. many times he stayed for a week more after the tournament. He won here his first title, won (counting this) 2 more finals and played another one.
And..., I don´t think choosing light blue shirt and white shorts was an innocent choice. He even said, joking, that he would play DC for Argentina if the rulebook would alow it ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Annie]

LMAO ;D ;D ;D

[lena]

great to see Carlos can win again, have miss him at the last times ;D

[marats]

Congrats Carlos we'll done !!!

[SAFINNO1]

Good week for Carlos, another player who needs all the confidence if he is to do well, hopefully a good run up to RG can make him a contender and real threat to Rafa's crown>

Well Done Moya

[sabz]

YAY!!! SO good to see Carlos winnning again - he looks soooo HAPPY! ;D

[SAFINNO1]

Okay long time someone has posted in this thread, suprisingly how successful they've been

This man aint even worth posting a message about and he is non other than that ass hole Almagro

He looked like a twat when he beat Marat last year in Rome and proved my hypothesis in Valencia this year and is now continuing it in Rome

I saw some of his match against the Great man Roger Federer aint not once did he acknowledge a lucky net cord, he always complained about clear points he lost and pumped his fists so often i prayed one of them hit him in the face and now i hear that he is being disrespectful to Roger Saying " Roger never deserved to win, i lost the match myself" He admitted to not showing Roger Federer no respect and this just to takes the piss he actually called himself just like Roger Federer in Tennis ability .

How can someone who looks like shit talk shit as well. This man really is a disgrace to Tennis !!

Sorry if there are any Almagro fans here but this guy has just been bugging the hell out of me and for someone to talk/treat Roger Federer (great Tennis player, Great Role Model, UN Ambassador, founder of charities, friendly guy ) with no respect just appawls me.

[Annie]

Amen to that. I am also sorry in advance for all Almagro fans out there as well as I am breaking the rules of our own board, but Ily I absolutely agree. T read his post-match interview and seriously I could not believe what I was seeing. I mean it was a close match indeed but showing no respect for your opponent is one thing that does not make you a good tennis player no matter how talented you are. And when this opponent is one of the greatest tennis players of our times... this is a disgrace.

Rant over...

[SAFINNO1]

Player Blog - Tommy Robredo

Saturday, May 13, 2006



I'm happy to be doing the blog this week. I read Dmitry's and thought it was great. This week hopefully I can give you an idea of what a day in the life of a player is like during Masters Series Hamburg.

I've got to say it was a little stressful getting here. On Friday I decided to take a late afternoon flight so I could practice in Barcelona during the day. My flight was scheduled to stopover in Mallorca and then continue to Hamburg. I arrived at the airport at 5pm and the first flight was fine. Then in Mallorca I waited for all the people to board before getting on. But as I walk to the door the girl at the desk tells me that she needs four passengers to get on a different plane. "We are waiting for some passengers from Santiago, so this will make this plane leave late," she says. "There's another plane that will leave sooner and you'll arrive on time in Hamburg." So myself and three other people rush to a different gate but when we get there... no plane! It had already left. So we have to go back to the original gate.

On my way to Hamburg I turn to my instrument of work - my phone. I was arranging things for practice. I have my physio, Juan Reque, with me in Hamburg, but I am still without a coach. I sent Juan a text message: Please arrange practice for me in the morning and in the afternoon we can go running. I also was surprised to see a text message from Mahesh Bhupathi, one of the world's best doubles players: Hey Tommy, do you want to play doubles with me in Hamburg? I've lost in the first round of doubles about 10 times in a row so I wasn't sure if he was drunk. Maybe he just wanted the first-round prize money. Anyway, I had already arranged to play with David Ferrer so I had to say no.

In the end we arrived 90 minutes late into Hamburg and then I had to wait another 30 minutes for my racquet bag to show up - they made me send it with the checked luggage. Thankfully my courtesy car driver was still waiting for me at the airport. We had to walk a little way to the garage where the car was parked. We took the elevator to the fifth floor before the driver realized the car was on the fourth floor. So we went to the fourth floor and then she said it was actually on the third floor. When we eventually found the car it was on the second floor.



got to the hotel around 12.30 am. I unpacked my bag and went straight to bed.

Today I had breakfast in the hotel with Alberto Martin. When we got to the site I left one racquet with the stringer to try out in the afternoon to see if it's the tension I want to play with here this week. I warmed up with Juan at 10.30 and then practiced with Guillermo Coria. It was just a half hour hit and we were sharing a court with two other guys who had a match coming up. Then we played some games. He was leading 5-2 when we stopped. But that's okay... it was my first day getting used to the courts and the balls. I was finished by 12.30 and my next practice wasn't until 3, so that gave me time to have a shower and get something to eat. I had some pasta and then some ice cream - I love the sweet things.

Then I played the trivia machine... they ask questions about sports, geography and art. Then I watched the battle for pole position for Sunday's Formula 1 race on TV.

I had a practice with Nicolas Kiefer. We just warmed up for five minutes and then played some games. It was 5-4 with no breaks when we had to stop because Safin and Gaudio had the court.

Then Juan and I wanted to find a place to go for a run. We found a school with a running track but there was a fence so it didn't look like we could get in. But we found a hole so we snuck in and ran on the clay track for half an hour. Then we came back to the club and stretched.

Tonight I will have a massage and on Sunday I will practice with Juan Carlos. I'm told that I play Monday against Jiri Novak so I will take it pretty easy Sunday. I have played Jiri three times and have never beaten him. I told him that before he retires I want to beat him once. He's been injured for six months but he played in Rome last week. So maybe this is the best chance I've had yet to get a win. We'll see.

It's an amazing feeling to have made the Top 10. You always set goals during your career. Early on it was to make the Top 100, which I did at 18, then I wanted to win a title, which I did in Sopot in 2001. Then we won the Davis Cup for Spain. Then the Barcelona Open in 2004. But there are always new goals and this year one of those goals was to make the Top 10.

But I was very disappointed to lose in the first round in Rome to Rusedski. It would have been like Greg losing to me on grass in the week that he made the Top 10.

[Annie]

Bun Boys practiced together ;D ;D ;D

[bia2209]

lol....ah yes..but's not got the bun anymore..or at least so we think.,...

[Annie]

Thanks Davis

[avalon]

All the tennis boys are bucking the trend for short hair and growing it long .