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Tom Ferguson, Roger Howarth and Adam Wild show off their own particular star strokes.Photos by Tony Flint....
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Finally - we won the Tenerife Veterans Top Division title.Great wins from Lynda Miller against the No 1 from Andrea got us off to the best possible start.Followed up by wins from Salvador and myself took the game to a doubles to decide the match.In the me...
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Some pretty strange things were happening at the Tipsy Terrace, where some of the tennis players and "others" were being scared by the staff on Halloween night.Click the tenniszoo photos link to view some of the photos. ...
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Snow on the peak of Teide, and down here this morning in Los Gigantes this amazing rainbow over the Masca cliffs. But it did not actually rain!!...
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Our Fiona is leaving Los Gigantes, back to the UK this week.So some of her friends organised a tennis tournament for her last week, with a meal after.24 players turned up to play in a mixed doubles event organised by Dee, Paul and Joy.The winner was.......
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The San Francisco Tennis Centre is going "Spanish" as from the 17th of this month.Owned by Paul Ruane, he has decided to change the food menu to a very much local Spanish theme.Hot green peppers, morcilla, sausages "en fuego" and other local dishes will b...
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Matilde Klein is 79 years of age and plays for Bexbach tennis club near Saarbruken in the south of Germany.She has been coming to Los Gigantes for many years, and takes several lessons with me, conversing in half German and half Spanish.She truly loves th...
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While Spain's chances of winning the Federation Cup were gradually slipping away as they went down 2-0 against Russia in Madrid, the Los Gigantes Over 45 team won an impressive match at home 4-2 against last years champions Puerto de la Cruz.A great win b...
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Stopping Roger Federer winning once agin the US Open are the three young guns of the World's mens tennis.Called the "young guns" a few years ago by the ATP, Rafa-Novak and Andy will probably be fighting it out at most of the ATP tennis semi finals over th...
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By the end of the match, after they’d traded strokes for nearly four hours and day had turned into night, Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro looked like old pals.The young stars put their arms around each other at the net after Murray reached his fir...
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Upset of the day at the US Open - World number one Ana Ivanovic was sent crashing out of the US Open by French qualifier Julie Coin, who claimed a shock 6-3 4-6 6-3 second-round win. Coin, ranked 187 places lower than the Serbian, won four successive gam...
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You would have thought that us Brits have the problem in the World of tennis after Andy Murray's performance at the Olympics and the fact that today starts the US Open with just two Brit players out of 256!But according to the one and only Nick Bollettier...
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Rafa Nadal won the Olympic Gold medal, Spain's first ever Gold medal in tennis - and tomorrow he is the new World's No 1. ...
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With partner Stanislas Wawrinka Roger Federer won the gold medal for Switzerland beating the Swedish pair of Thomas Johansson and Simon Aspelin in the doubles final....
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Latest news from the Olympics in the ladies event is that World Number Two Ana Ivanovic has pulled out due to an unknown reason, and World Number One Jelena Jancovic,also from Serbia is a big doubt!!!!Now you see why I really avoid any news about the ladi...
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With it raining in China, the tennis is delayed, so here are a few pics for you. Fernando Gonzalez from Chile and The Fed from Switzerland do the honours.Rafa's first Olympics and Jonas Bjorkman, his last....
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This August, over 10,000 of the most talented sportsmen and women in the world will gather in Beijing for the largest event on the sporting calendar - the Olympic Games. It is 112 years since Athens staged the first Modern Olympiad, fulfilling the dr...
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The brand new Olympic and Paralympic Tennis Centre is located centrally just one kilometre north of the Olympic village and two kilometres north of the main Olympic Stadium. It is situated in the Olympic Green complex which also houses Archery, Athletics...
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Olympic Tennis Event - Men's Singles EntryNalbandian David ARGMonaco Juan ARGCalleri Agustin ARGCanas Guillermo ARGHewitt Lleyton AUSGuccione Chris AUSMelzer Jurgen AUTDarcis Steve BELRochus Olivier BELMirnyi Max BLRBellucci Thomaz BRADaniel Marcos BRADan...
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Rafael Nadal is guaranteed to claim the No. 1 South African Airways ATP Ranking one week before the US Open begins. Nadal will rise to No. 1 for the first time in his career August 18 after he reached the semifinals of last week's Western & Southern Finan...
