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Article in french from eurosport.fr; Guga want to play RG he started a good preparation to be in good condition in Paris. and he's confident to get a Wild Card but if he won't have this he'll play qualies.Tennis - Roland-Garros - 09/04/2007 - 11:35
Kuerten veut rejouer
Triple vainqueur entre 1997 et 2001, Gustavo Kuerten, 667e joueur ATP, a déclaré vouloir disputer Roland-Garros cette saison. Le Brésilien, opéré deux fois de la hanche en 2002 et 2004, aurait entamé une préparation adéquate pour arriver à Paris en bonne forme.
Kuerten, absent à Roland-Garros l'année dernière et tombé au 1er tour en 2005, a perdu le seul point du Brésil, en double, contre le Canada lors du 2e tour de la zone Amériques en Coupe Davis.
Source: http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_tennisblog/2007/06/guga-at-least-3.htmlRan into Larri Passos coming down the path to Aorangi and he says his No. 1 charge, three-time French Open winner Gustavo Kuerten, is still three months away from getting back on court.
That means the USTA can save a wild card for another American. Guga won't be ready for the Open. He cannot seem to get over his chronic hip problems. He tried coming back this year, playing Challengers and taking wild cards where he could get them, like the Sony Ericsson Open, but was a very deserved 2-8. After losing two and two to Raemon Sluiter in the first round at Key Biscayne, he went home to try to get well and hasn't played since.
Kuerten is 30 years old and ranked No. 667. He's earned nearly $15 million. So why is this man trying to play tennis?
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article2017641.eceElsewhere, things felt a lot better. “God has been really good to me,” Larri Passos said. Gustavo Kuerten was the world No 1 seven years ago, won the French Open three times and reached the quarter-finals of the 1999 Wimbledon, which sent them nuts in Brazil. Passos was his coach and the next best thing to the father that Kuerten lost aged 9 when Aldo Kuerten collapsed and died umpiring a junior match.
Kuerten, 30, who presented the trophy to Rafael Nadal on his third Roland Garros triumph last month, has been visiting the All England Club, stopping to confess that his efforts to return to the competitive front line after a debilitating hip injury are in vain. He said he intends to play a couple of exhibition matches – “to remind Brazilians and the world who I was” – and take the rest of his life from there.
Passos probably thought that he would never be back in a grand-slam tournament but he is coaching Tamira Paszek, a 16-year-old from Austria who reached the fourth round of the women’s singles yesterday – a partnership that began in remarkable circumstances and promises to become a tale as fascinating as that of Kuerten and the little man who never left his side.
Consider this: Paszek had been pictured with Kuerten in Paris when she was 13. Her father, Ariff Mohamed, born in Tanzania and raised in Kenya, wrote to Passos two years ago saying that he had a 14-year-old daughter with a talent for tennis and pleaded with him to come and see for himself.
“Larri has always been in my heart for what he did for Guga [Kuerten] and I wanted to tell him about my Tamira,” Ariff said. Passos, fascinated by such a request, flew to Austria, took one look at Paszek and enrolled her in his academy in Brazil. With her 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Elena Dementieva, the No 12 seed from Russia, Paszek joins Kim Clijsters, Jelena Dokic, Anna Kournikova and Martina Hingis as 16-year-olds to have reached this stage of Wimbledon in the past ten years.
Kuerten lost to Andre Agassi – the French Open champion at the time – in straight sets in that quarter-final in 1999, although Passos is certain that had he won, he would have taken the title. For Kuerten, Wimbledon was never quite the same again. In Portugal, at the end of 2000, his marquee year, he became the first player to win the Masters Cup, after the ITF and ATP came to their senses and decided to stage an end-of-season championship in harness rather than blow raspberries at each other and do their own things.
Does anyone know if there's any pictures of Guga in Wimbledon?Adam (Adee-gee) saw Guga in Wimbledon. Guga walked right pass him and that idiot Adam went frozen and forgot to ask a pic or talk to Guga. By the time his brain worked again, Guga already went into the player area.