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Kakve nogice ima on i Simon mrtva trka cije su tanje :classic_biggrin:

Nesto se setih ovaj tim 8 su potpisali koliko se secam DelPo koji ne moze da se sastavi uopste fizicki, Grigor koji ne moze da se sastavi sa igrom i samo im je Sasha falio taman da naprave kljakavu trojku :classic_sad: 

btw svi su mi simpa ( i sta im je trebalo da potpisuju kod Fekija)

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In 2010, before he'd officially turned pro, Sock won 9 Futures-level matches & finished the year ranked #878 (he'd started at #698). Because of his USO wildcard, though, he earned $19K despite losing in the first round. (He also got WC into qualifying at Delray & Miami.)

The next year, he moved up 500 ranking spots. Impressive, right? Looking closely, you find that he was essentially elevated from Futures to the Challenger tour by way of wildcards: specifically, he got WC at 8/9 Challengers played. His other events? WC into Delray Q, Miami & USO.

Winning one match at the 2011 US Open earned Sock $31K; a first-round loss in Miami netted him another $7K. The rest of his $49K prize money came from two Futures tournaments & six wins at the aforementioned Challengers, where his biggest paycheck was ~$3K for a QF in Sacramento.

He opened 2012 with his second Futures title (like the first, in 2009, held in Florida), & then returned to Challengers—& wildcards. He received WC at his first 3 CH, followed by WC at San Jose, Memphis, IW, Newport, Atlanta, LA, Cincy Q, and the US Open.

In 2012, Sock won 5 main-draw matches on the ATP tour, all at tournaments where he'd received wildcards. Not least because 2 of them were at the USO, he got his ranking to the point where he got direct entry into Challengers. He won his 1st CH title & earned $149K for the year.

Now 20 and in the ATP top 150, Sock played his first qualifying round at a major in Melbourne (he retired in R1). Then it was nack to the US &—you guessed it!—wildcards: San Jose, Memphis, Delray, IW, & Houston. He did, however qualify for his first major at RG 2013.

In fact, RG 2013 was the first tournament (& the only one that year) he qualified for, rather than being helped into the main draw. He broke into the top 100 after winning a CH title in July, got direct entry into ATP 250s (WCs into DC & Cincy), & doubled his 2012 prize money.

 

Though I could go on, I won't. My point, ultimately, isn't about Jack Sock but about the immense advantage players from slam nations have—and especially those from the US, which hosts many smaller tournaments in addition to 3 Masters.

 

American players have access to great training facilities as juniors, financial support from the USTA, more exposure to sponsors (& their $), and, not least, wildcards galore. Until you make the top 50, pro tennis is not an even playing field—it's not even close. /end rant

 

PS: when you see a young player from a small &/or relatively poor country break into the top 200, then 100, then 50 or higher, know that he/she likely got there largely on his/her own. It's incredibly impressive. Also: put more money into the entry levels of pro tennis.


 

 

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Dimitrov on his shoulder (after his Rd 1 win over Seppi):

“It was driving me crazy (pain started in November/December), and I still have a little pain here but it’s more or less healthy now. I feel a lot of upside.”

Also talked about having to make some racquet adjustments to ease the pain.

 

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https://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/the-atp-is-pretty-corrupt-anyway-kyrgios-lashes-tennis-body-after-massive-fine-20190828-p52lp9.html

'The ATP is pretty corrupt anyway': Kyrgios lashes tennis body after massive fine

https://twitter.com/MattRacquet/status/1166686231566192642

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Kyrgios: The ATP is pretty *corrupt* anyway, I’m not fussed about it (the fine) at all.”

And then this, refusing to take responsibility (again) by trotting out a very obvious false equivalence.

Good lord this makes the ATP look weak.

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Juce se ozenio Luka Puij sa Klemens sa kojom je vec poodavno. Svadbi je prisustvovao Vavrinka

 

https://www.purepeople.com/article/lucas-pouille-marie-il-a-epouse-clemence-en-presence-de-stan-wawrinka_a351071/1

 

Posle svadbe su seli u avion i otisli u Dubai koji je za njih stalno mesto boravista - neko u Monako a neko (ako si naprimer francuz) Dubai 

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Ali su isto tako francuski teniseri, uspesni i manje uspesni reprezentativci i neizabrani ikad od malih nogu pa do penzije takoreci stalno finansirani i dooobro potpomognuti od strane francuske drzave - jedino sto se od njih trazi je da igraju pod francuskom zastavom a sanja se o tome da osvoje nesto bilo sta 😉

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Slazem se a oni i igraju uredno jer im za to igranje u repki dodatno placaju pozamasno

 

Vrlo cudno sto se ne pojavi neko da bude bar solidno u top deset ne racunajuci dubl (daj sta das😉), Luka vec posustao nazalost imam utisak, medju zenskima slicna situacija ...

Jel ti vidis nekom neku svetlu buducnost ili bar nadu u ?

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