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TV coverage for Dubai 2012.

ATP World Tour Television Coverage 
Astro Supersport – Malaysia
BandSports – Brazil
BSkyB – UK/Ireland/IOM
C More( Canal+ Nordics) – Sweden/Denmark/Norway/Finland
ESPN International – Australia & New Zealand
Gaora Sports Channel – Japan
Globosat – Brazil
Go – Malta
GSP TV – Romania
IKO ( Sport Klub) – Croatia/Montenegro/Serbia/Slovenia/Macedonia
Indovision – Indonesia
Kanal 5 – Macedonia
KBS – N – Korea
Lumiere TV – Cyprus
MCF Sports Channel – Georgia
Sports TV ( Media Eye/ Saran) – Turkey/ Azerbaijan
NTV Plus – Russia
Orange Sports – France
PCCW(Cable) – Hong Kong
RTV Atlas – Montenegro
Saigon Tourist Cable Televison Company (SCTV) – Vietnam
Sogecable – Spain
Sport 1 ( Pragosport) – Czech Republic/Slovakia/Hungary
Sport 1 – Netherlands
Sportcast TV – Taiwan
Starhub – Singapore
Supersport – South Africa
SuperTennis – Italy
Sportcast TV – Taiwan
Taj TV ( Ten Sports) – Indian Sub continent
Tennis Channel – USA
TV Plus – Bulgaria
True Visions – Thailand
TYC Sports – Latin America
VCTV – Vietnam
Dubai Sports Channel 

WTA round table interviews @ Dubai 2012.

 

Wozniacki vs Goerges Dubai 2012: Highlights.

 

Dubai 2012 player entry list. Starts in two days.

Player Name	Nat.	Rank
Novak Djokovic	SRB	1
Roger Federer	SUI	3
Andy Murray	GBR	4
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	FRA	6
Tomas Berdych	CZE	7
Mardy Fish	USA	8
Janko Tipsarevic	SRB	9
Juan Martin del Potro	ARG	10
Feliciano Lopez	ESP	15
Richard Gasquet	FRA	16
Alexandr Dolgopolov	UKR	18
Ivan Ljubicic	CRO	32
Mikhail Youzhny	RUS	39
Michael Llodra	FRA	43
Marcos Baghdatis	CYP	45
Dmitry Tursunov	RUS	49
Nikolay Davydenko	RUS	52
Sergiy Stakhovsky	UKR	67
Flavio Cipolla	ITA	75
Nicolas Mahut	FRA	78
Igor Kunitsyn	RUS	80
Lukas Rosol	CZE	81
Benjamin Becker	GER	344
Men's ranks as of Jan. 30, 2012

Djokovic has won Dubai three straight times already? Three finalists with him? Federer, Youzhny and Ferrer.

Past Champions

Year	Draws	Singles	Doubles
2011	S|D	Novak Djokovic	Sergiy Stakhovsky / Mikhail Youzhny
2010	S|D	Novak Djokovic	Simon Aspelin / Paul Hanley
2009	S|D	Novak Djokovic	Rik De Voest / Dmitry Tursunov
2008	S|D	Andy Roddick	Mahesh Bhupathi / Mark Knowles
2007	S|D	Roger Federer	Fabrice Santoro / Nenad Zimonjic
2006	S|D	Rafael Nadal	Paul Hanley / Kevin Ullyett
2005	S|D	Roger Federer	Martin Damm / Radek Stepanek
2004	S|D	Roger Federer	Mahesh Bhupathi / Fabrice Santoro
2003	S|D	Roger Federer	Leander Paes / David Rikl
2002	S|D	Fabrice Santoro	Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
2001	S|D	Juan Carlos Ferrero	Joshua Eagle / Sandon Stolle
2000	S|D	Nicolas Kiefer	Jiri Novak / David Rikl

 

WTA player party @ Dubai 2012.

 

Tennis at the Olympics. From Chipnputt. Thanks.

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Tennis at the Olympics

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AO 2012 final: Djokovic vs Nadal - set by set numbers.

Player	Aces - Djokovic / Nadal	Ist serve pct.	Unforced errors	Winners	Bk pt conversion	Time	Score
1st set	4 / 2	51 / 76	19 / 17	14 / 15	1 of 5 / 2 of 3	1:20	5-7
2nd set	0 / 3	58 / 63	12 / 10	12 / 9	2 of 5 / 1 of 1	1:06	6-4
3rd set	0 / 1	72 / 53	7 / 10	11 / 2	2 of 3 / 0 of 0	0:45	6-2
4th set	3 / 2	66 / 72	17 / 18	11 / 11	2 of 3 / 5 of 5	1:28	6-7
5th set	2 / 2	54 / 66	14 / 16	9 / 7	2 of 4 / 1 of 2	1:14	7-5
Total	9 / 10	59 / 67	69 / 71	57 / 44	7 of 20 / 4 of 6	5:53

Photos.

Jurgen Melzer, of Austria, left, shakes hands with John Isner after Melzer won their match at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships tennis tournament on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, in Memphis, Tenn. Melzer won the match 6-3, 7-6(6).

Wonder why he always sports facial hair!!!!!!

Applying for UK citizenship?

He has the same muscles as Djokovic.

Julia Goerges of Germany (R) shakes hands with Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (L) at the end of their WTA Dubai Open semi-final tennis match in the Gulf emirate on February 24, 2012. Georges won the match 7-6 (7/3), 7-5. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Most singles wins by Grand Slam tournament: WTA (Open era). Evert owns two of four? And what happened to Graf?

Grand Slam	Wins #	Player(s)
Australian Open	5	Serena Williams
French Open	7	Chris Evert
Wimbledon	9	Martina Navratilova
US Open	6	Chris Evert

 

Did you know?

.............that if you are running around with ear buds in your - ears - all day long with whatever BS you are listening to beyond the acceptable decibel count, you WILL contract an incurable disease.

Symptom? You constantly hear a bell sound every single moment that gets worse when there's complete silence like when you are trying to sleep. Translation: No sleep. And it's incurable.

Cut it down NOW.

Players who 'CLEARLY' learnt from Navratilova's huge mistake.

Federer.

Kuznetsova.

Stosur.

Simon?

Wawrinka.

Francesca Schiavone

Justine?

Wozniacki? In that case, someone rescue that under-age golf girl.

Jankovic: Determining 'factor' still not determined - definitively.

Those who didn't?

Mauresmo.

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Shouldn't' bestownation' of 'great' come with a 'degree'?

I mean, how can you equate a Ping Pong great to say a Boxing great? Currently the spotlight, adulation or grade of a certain 'great' is largely based on the popularity of the freaking sport.

Like Jordan is held in higher esteem than say a Cycling great even though the latter may have overcome far higher degree of difficulty specific and UNspecific to his individual sport.

Who outside the US has even heard of ANY NFL great? Heck, even some obvious NBA greats are virtually unknown 'outside', like say Shaq or even Kobe.

Shouldn't the work needed to reach 'great' status dictated largely by the demands of a certain sport alongwith the severity of obstacles one had to jump through - related or unrelated to the sport - be the SOLE determiner? 

Shouldn't there be a body of current and former players who should be entrusted to assign a certain number to EVERY 'great' 'bestownation' thereby allowing the 'true' warrior to get recognised independent of the popularity of the sport - within and outside the country of choice?

Factors like depth in competition, technology, stronger players etc. should be taken into account to arrive at a station that can reduce the generational disparity to the minimum thereby allowing fans to appreciate a 'TRUE' talent rather than a one produced by the media.

What Nadal vs Federer and Djokovic vs Nadal match up has revealed so glaringly?

That the MOST masterful of talent can be brought to it's knees by employing a set three-fold strategy? You bet!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Recognise the weakness. Everyone has one.

2. Develop your game to ensure you are armed with stroke(s) to blow open the near invisible crack into a canyon.

3. While working on No. 2 install ample safeguards to ensure you are still good enought to tackle the rest.

Roddick missed the last two. Or three? Federer missed the second one - badly? Nadal is too late to reinvent the second one?

Just improving your game - generally - something Nadal has been blabbering about ever since Djokovic began pasting him is beyond futile, if not outright harmful.

Photos.

That's called 'Desperate to have the shot make rounds - somewhere'.

Dawning of realization that clothes may dampen some 'roughness'?

This can get 'better'?

Highest-Paid Players of All Time.

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Mind-controlled skateboard is literally powered by your thoughts. So THAT'S what Djokovic calls the 'egg' contraption OVER Nadal?

 

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Happy Birthday to Sandy: February 23.

Mature stuff I am into these days.

Watching people attempting to enter stores, libraries etc. when they are closed. Like the store opens at say 10:00 AM and these clowns will waddle in @ 9:30 or so and then do the whole freaking dance down to the last detail:

Pull on one handle, then pull on the other one, cup their hands around their eyes and look inside the store through the glass, be lost for the next few minutes, stare at the store hours chart for an hour, look at their watch, get completely disoriented on what they should do next.....

The body language when pulling the first handle FULLY expecting the door to open is freaking beyond hilarious. All this while someone is celebrating like a mental patient (I said 'like a') from a distance.

Most Years end. No Vilas clown here.

At No. 1	Years
1.	Pete Sampras	6
2.	Jimmy Connors	5
	Roger Federer	5
4.	John McEnroe	4
	Ivan Lendl	4

In Top 2	Years
1.	Jimmy Connors	8
	Roger Federer	8
3.	Ivan Lendl	7
	Rafael Nadal	7
5.	John McEnroe	6
	Pete Sampras	6

In Top 3	Years
1.	Jimmy Connors	12
2.	Ivan Lendl	10
3.	Pete Sampras	9
	Roger Federer	9
5.	Bjorn Borg	7
	John McEnroe	7
	Rafael Nadal	7

In Top 4	Years
1.	Jimmy Connors	14
2.	Ivan Lendl	10
3.	John McEnroe	9
	Pete Sampras	9
	Roger Federer	9

In Top 5	Years
1.	Jimmy Connors	14
2.	Ivan Lendl	11
3.	Pete Sampras	10
4.	John McEnroe	9
	Stefan Edberg	9
	Boris Becker	9
	Roger Federer

In Top 10	Years
1.	Jimmy Connors	16
	Andre Agassi	16
3.	Ivan Lendl	13
4.	Pete Sampras	12
5.	Boris Becker	11

 

And why do you have to look at each while making a fool of yourself? 'Cos misery loves company?

Wawrinka @ Buenos Aires 2012.

 

Photos.

Try Silicon next time. You are not fooling anyone with this.

How long before the fake eyebrows connect the freaking ears? Geeezzzzz!!!!!!

Just before she was rescued from the nearby palm tree.

Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia reacts against Peng Shuai of China during the third day of Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012.

"I am a man in a man's body and woman's name".

Are Gluten-Free Diets All Hype? If they are, Djokovic better produce his plan B - fast. Or write a book. Both?

Going gluten-free is necessary for people with celiac disease, an autoimmune condition triggered by gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye. The disease causes inflammation in the small intestine and can lead to malnutrition.

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