[Nadie]

Originally Posted by erica

Andis is playing tomorrow Is his dad his coach?

I guess yes, they often travel to tournaments together

[but-it's-ok]

Deniss and Mikelis both lost their 1st round singles matches.

[Nadie]

[but-it's-ok]

Dominican Republic F1 doubles semi-final result

(4)Pavlovs/Lībietis(LAT) defeated (1)Kumantsov(RUS)/Middelkoop(NED) 6-4 6-1.

Their opponents in the final will be unseeded Venezuelan pair Piero Luisi/Roman Necarte. Good luck Deniss and Mikelis!

[banhhe]

wow, really hope that they will win good luck!!!

[Nadie]

Deniss Pavlovs won futures tournament in Havana

1st Round
Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) (5) defeated Marvin NETUSCHIL (GER) 5-2 Retired

2nd Round
Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) (5) defeated Libor SALABA (CZE) 6-3 6-0

Quarterfinal
Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) (5) defeated Olivier SAJOUS (HAI) (4) 6-2 6-3

Semifinal
Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) (5) defeated Roman RECARTE (VEN) (7) 7-6(3) 6-3

Final
Deniss PAVLOVS (LAT) (5) def Christopher DIAZ-FIGUEROA (GUA) (3) 6:2, 6:1

[TravelingFanGirl]

I've been freaking out about this all day! It just makes me so happy for Deniss!

[banhhe]

wowww, congrats Denissss!

[koriorio]

Ernests can go up higher on this.
Please check Erno and click the green button "Balsot" .
http://bit.ly/hj8zQY

It might help if you send this information to your friends!

[koriorio]

I forgot to say that you can vote one time every day!

thanks.

Originally Posted by koriorio

Ernests can go up higher on this.
Please check Erno and click the green button "Balsot" .
http://bit.ly/hj8zQY

It might help if you send this information to your friends!

[TravelingFanGirl]

Yes that is for the sporting awards. We have this link in another thread. The awards are going to be held on the 23rd, however Ernests is highly unlikely to win so I wouldn't get any hopes up. He has tough competition and even with our votes my friend told me that on the day Latvians call in to vote before the award is given and that makes his chances even smaller. BUT it's always nice to keep voting for him!

[TravelingFanGirl]

For those of you who are interested in this and haven't seen it, I found an interview with Andis Juska through Facebook. Andis is speaking the interview in English but the French voice over covers it up too heavy. Luckily my friend Flora agreed to translate for me. (She apologizes for any errors of the translation) BTW this interview was from a few months ago.

-We're with Andis juska who just qualified for the semis in the singles draw.
Good evening and congrats!!
- thank you
- you just won against Jonathan Eysseric (a frenchie!) 64 63, now you're in the semis. What do you think about your match?
- I thought the 1st set was quite tight, I broke him at the beginning, then I lost games on my serve easily. I wasn't expecting that. My shoulder hurt a little since yesterday but it's getting better; I broke him again. I returned better than the previous days, I'm really getting better at that. I reckon it's one of the reasons I won today/.
- what do you think made the difference?
- On what?... Definitely the returns, I really won more points, I forced him to live on the edge. He took more risks on his 1st serve, he didn't win a lot of them. I attacked on his 2nd serves, I put pressure on him, and it worked today
- Tomorrow you'll play against another French player, Romain Jour, what can you say about him?
- I played against him three weeks ago, I lost 64 75, it was a tight match, and the difference was on two or three points. It's going to be a big match tomorrow, (Here she got confused but I believe he was saying that both him and his next opponent were in Finals recently) He plays well these days, but me too so it's going to be a big match
- Being in the semis again, do you remember 2005?
- I played there 5 years ago against Steve Darcis, I was in the semis. I had played in three sets, a great match. I really hope I'll play such a good match tomorrow
- good luck..

Link to video- http://tcbressuire.over-blog.fr/arti...-44819808.html

[Nadie]

Karlis is practising with Ernests in Miami

http://parsportu.lv/articles/0/47951/

According to the article, Karlis parted with his coach Mikael Pernfors, and it was Gumy who carried out practise with both Ernests and Karlis.

Karlis starts 2011 at futures in Turkey

Davis cup tie against Greece is also mentioned there, probably Ernest will not take part there because of Masters series tournaments in USA

[TravelingFanGirl]

I had a feeling Karlis would be with him this off season & I'm glad I'm right! It's clear Karlis enjoys working with Hernan and I hope Michael is helping Karlis with his knee that acted up on him at the end of the season! I can't wait for the season to start!

[but-it's-ok]

Other Latvians are commencing their 2011 season this week.

Karlis is in Israel,competing in a Futures tournament. He's seeded 2.

Singles Round 1
K LEJNIEKS(LAT) defeated Anton Manegin of Russia 6-1 6-2.

He and Mikelis unfortunately lost their opening round doubles match to Diez(CAN)/Vicente(ESP) 5-7 7-6(5)[6-10]

Andis is playing Germany F1,he's seeded 3,and faces Carl Bergman of Sweden in his opening singles of 2011.

He is seeded 2 in the Doubles competition,he's partnering Daniel Danilovic of Sweden.