He goes in Doha according his interview today but he's still on alternates list for the moment so if nothing change no Brisbane. You can hear him here http://www.fft.fr/action/masters-france/?id=4443
i've just found out too... yeah anything can happen, players seem to be particularly 'mobile' the week before the aus open, and some may pull out any minute...
i'd better get ready, tomorrow will be a long day... keep me posted of any news, will ya please?
I guess the day hasn't been as long and exciting as it could be... Via
Maybe there is still a chance that Arnaud will play in doubles? The draw shoud be out later today.
I hope your heart is not broken because he plays an Aussie The oop is out: second match on court 1 maybe 10:30 local time and during the night for us Luczak is just come back on tour but with jet lag and the warm it could be tough for Arnaud especially against a motivated Aussie but if he plays as well as against Roddick he can do it. Have a nice day tomorrow
I'm confused with the calender, ofcourse it's Sydney first. I guess I am a week ahead of everyone on my own clock I just want the AO to start, finally some tennis on tv again
So good luck Arno in qualies
Have a nice day Via!
And I heard that in Marseille there was snow (just like in NL) so I think Sydney will always be warmer
it was just a poor, poor match. arnaud made peter luczak look like andy roddick today i never knew it was so hard to return peter's serves.
i don't know how jet-lagged he was, but he must be different player from doha, or he just wasn't trying.
i asked the guy sitting with bruno, if arnaud is playing doubles... he asked bruno for me, and bruno uttered a lot of stuff lol basically it's a no. they may be staying on for two days... something like that.
I followed until 1-4, the double break indeed and at that moment he must have served only 3 or 4 first serve in that cases it tough to hold your serve :devil: I watched the stats this morning ad yes it seems that he didn't exist on Peter's serve He has only 43% of first serve, against Andy it was not fabulous on serve but on game it was very well but not today apparently. Well it was a long trip from Doha so :angel: I hope he won't draw Murray in AO first round lol The double draw of Sydney is out and as bruno said no doubes this week.
i'm amazed at your detective work... is this guy so curious? i wouldn't be bothered so much
the guy's english was good enough to understand me but he did not speak much. or maybe he could speak a lot but was worried that i only spoke chinese (or russian) :lol:
kezzi i spoke to this guy because he looked friendly or perhaps he even smiled at me lol
bruno was in a lousy mood immediately after the match as you can imagine.
if i see him again should i directly call out for 'mr zimbler'? that would solve our big mystery! lol
ps. one thing that struck me (finally) during and after that match, was that the clement brothers, both of them, aren't all that good at controlling their emotions...
:lol: Thanks Françoise! No, don't do this, please, otherwise Via will be bashing me until the end of time
So I assume it's a different guy. And I've never seen him before. It seems that the actual stuff of Team Lagardère is quite more various than those few guys mentioned on their website.
What do you mean with controlling their emotions?
After a lost match I always think they look very sad. And on court, well, I think "ballkids" is enough to say
BTW: I love your blog posts! You have good comments to go with the pics!
well it seems to me that arnaud got so frustrated when not playing well, he couldn't stay cool and devise some sort of a plan b... in other words, his emotions are getting in the way of him doing things smarter and playing better.
he didn't give too much sh!t to the ballkids on saturday... he just challenged a lot of line calls, really unnecessarily and holding up play. once he distracted luczak enough to (i felt) cause him to double fault. but justice prevailed when two serves later, luczak served a big ace to him :devil:
(btw luczak didn't end up qualifying... so much for the new 'andy roddick')
My friend texted me that she saw Arno and Bruno in Melbourne, but didn't get a chance to talk to them. So they are in Melbourne since yesterday (European time )
I saw him in Aachen at the challenger in 2007, but it was at the player's party, so I didn't see him play. But in my eyes (didn't actually follow him, but saw him appear in draws sometimes) he improved a lot the past year.
Ok, back to topic, I think Arno can beat him, but as I said, haven't seen him play. It won't be easy, because this is a serious tournament, in Aachen it seemed like the whole group was just there to have fun
For me it's a little bit tricky first round. He won Zagreb last year whereas he was LL He really improved last year and did 1/4 in Doha this year and even if didn't see him some people said that's he played quite well there and it's not a spanish who plays only on clay lol But of course it's winnable for Arnaud especially in a best of five. Arnaud can win this if he makes a serious match with few UE and anyway it's the kind of match you must win if you want to come back in top #50 :devil:
Well, sure we won't have tv coverage of this match
Quite a nice draw for Arnaud! I mean it could be much worse.
Stakhovsky is indeed a very tricky player. I've been watching him almost every year since 2005 - as he always plays in my city - and he's been improving a lot throughout these years. Not that I've ever paid any special attention on him, but I remember that he has a solid serve and is good in long matches, so it's not exactly that a 5-setter will give more chances to Arnaud and his ageing bones.
So I think it's a match where quite a few things will depend not only on how good Arnaud is, - though of course, if Arnaud plays like in 2 first games of the match against Roddick there will be no questions about the winner of this encounter.
I just learned that he did the junior US Open final against Murray few years ago. As you, everybody who saw him are quite positive about him. We can say 50-50 or less ? They don't play on monday
Well, I believe Arnaud in his best form is clearly better than Stakhovsky at his best, but considering Arnaud's current form I guess it would be fair to say 50-50.
The doubles draw is out, and Arnaud plays with Marco, no surprises here. A tough first round against Petzschner/Peya, but as for the rest, the draw is quite fine.
Really tough since Petzschner/Peya is a really good team in a good dynamic. If our frenchies lost at first round Arnaud will go down around #80 in doubles . I'm optimist i know lol
Yes, maybe no more consolation with the doubles for him and for us . There is also a new way to count points in doubles but i didn't understand lol all i know is that he has 1400 points to defend in Melbourne. Well, if he wants continuing to enter the Masters Series he needs a big result here :angel:. Marco lost today and Arnaud plays last match on court 14 tomorrow.
oh no i haven't paid attention to doubles ranking system at all.
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