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2014 Stockholm Open…ATP 250…Stockholm, Sweden
Last year's event was sort of Grigor Dimitrov's coming out party here on the forum as highly esteemed contributor klacr drew our attention…our fire. This years event features his very own Tomas Berdych…rumored to be inroads or initial talks with Ivan "The Terrible" Lendl. If only he had come along soon enough to teach Tomas that backhand…it would have been a different story for Berdych.
Be that as it may…Sweden's hopeful Elias Ymer has already exited the stadium due to a first round drubbing at the hands of Jeremy Chardy. He who takes too big of a back swing on his forehand. Is there such a thing these days as being politically incorrect when you are speaking of a tennis players fundamentals. We hope nobody is insulted here…fragile egos and egg shell minds not withstanding.
Robin Söderling is hosting this year's event. He's looking for stuff to do seeing as he hasn't played a tennis match in over three years. He's the tournament director and I wonder just how many players he can alienate in his first year. He's not what you would call the worldsmostgraciousperson if you know what i mean. Certainly Fafa Nadal won't be playing here anytime soon. Robin is also a tennis ball manufacturer too…did you know that? No…of course you didn't. I don't anticipate the balls selling anywhere outside of Sweden. Of course our club bought them at the behest of my new partner who also hails from Tibro, Sweden…the same city as Robin grew up in and alienated. It's a rather mediocre ball. It's a cheap ball, but you know what they say…you get what you pay for.
But Grigor is back and Berdych is in the house…the house that the great John McEnroe nearly brought down some thirty years ago with a volcanic demonstration of American tennis passion and anger in a match against Anders Jarryd. What a scene…slashing bottles and drenching the King of Sweden. We will never see the likes of that again…will we? Uh oh…1984 again. There's that year again.
Although yesterday I was training my players to start yelling at their feet in their matches if they needed a wake up call. No sense in sleep walking through matches and taking the whole thing laying down.
Can an ATP 250 tournament stir up any interest at all? Just maybe…if Dimitrov and Berdych meet in the final. That might give us something to talk about…other than each other. Know what I mean?
Be that as it may…Sweden's hopeful Elias Ymer has already exited the stadium due to a first round drubbing at the hands of Jeremy Chardy. He who takes too big of a back swing on his forehand. Is there such a thing these days as being politically incorrect when you are speaking of a tennis players fundamentals. We hope nobody is insulted here…fragile egos and egg shell minds not withstanding.
Robin Söderling is hosting this year's event. He's looking for stuff to do seeing as he hasn't played a tennis match in over three years. He's the tournament director and I wonder just how many players he can alienate in his first year. He's not what you would call the worldsmostgraciousperson if you know what i mean. Certainly Fafa Nadal won't be playing here anytime soon. Robin is also a tennis ball manufacturer too…did you know that? No…of course you didn't. I don't anticipate the balls selling anywhere outside of Sweden. Of course our club bought them at the behest of my new partner who also hails from Tibro, Sweden…the same city as Robin grew up in and alienated. It's a rather mediocre ball. It's a cheap ball, but you know what they say…you get what you pay for.
But Grigor is back and Berdych is in the house…the house that the great John McEnroe nearly brought down some thirty years ago with a volcanic demonstration of American tennis passion and anger in a match against Anders Jarryd. What a scene…slashing bottles and drenching the King of Sweden. We will never see the likes of that again…will we? Uh oh…1984 again. There's that year again.
Although yesterday I was training my players to start yelling at their feet in their matches if they needed a wake up call. No sense in sleep walking through matches and taking the whole thing laying down.
Can an ATP 250 tournament stir up any interest at all? Just maybe…if Dimitrov and Berdych meet in the final. That might give us something to talk about…other than each other. Know what I mean?
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