Tournoi de dubai

Bah je sens que le score est de plus en plus serré. Tant mieux quand même

lol oui il a eu du mal contre le dernier quil a battu ( je sais pu qui c lol ) car il la battu sur le score de 7/5-6/4

*il y a de l'espoir, on désespère pas *

Je suivais le match d'Henman tout à l'heure et il a gagné le premier set 7-5 et a perdu le deuxième 6-2..come on Tim !

Tim est en train de perdre le 3ième set 4-2 :

Allez Henman !

Allez Gentleman Tim

OUI OUI

Tim vient de briser !!!! 5-4 ! YOU CAN DO IT !

je connai pas trop tim !! lol mais vais lencourager aussi !!

Il est encore en vit le ptit Tim


5-5

Tie-break.

Je déteste

Tim Henman a défait 7-5/2-6/7-6 R. Stepanek

Trop fort !!!!!!

( je viens de voir paulo 2 sec a la télé !!! suis heureuse pour 2sec ! mdr )

Ah bah encore mieux

Tim a gagné !!!!!!!!! formidable fiesta les amis

Avez-vous entend que s'il ne réintègre pas le top 20 d'ici le fin de l'année il va prendre sa retraite ? :

Saviez-vous qu'Agassi a recu 2 MILLIONS $ pour jouer à Dubai ?

Le monde est fou

quoi ???? mais les joueurs joue et c'est a la fin si il gagne quil gagne de largent ! ba je comprend maintenant pourquoi il a pas fait las vegas ! mdr non mais c nimporte quoi ! et ils ont dépensé leur fric pour rien, il a perdiu ! lol

Bah justement il était supposé de jouer à Las Vegas mais Dubai le voulait absolument donc ils ont mit le paquet

Et comme tu l'as dis , bah il a déjà perdu donc

je le comprend, avec cette somme la jaurai pas jouer a las vegas non plus mdr maintenant on sait pk !

Bah à 2 millions je saute dans un avion pour aller n'importe ou

Et je pense qu'Andy a bien fait de pas aller à Las Vegas aussi avec tout ce qui se dit

qu'est ce qui ce dit ?

Honest Politician Alert!

Posted 3/1/2006 @ 12:31 PM

Andy Roddick’s withdrawal from The Tennis Channel Open in Las Vegas disappointed many fans, caused some to roll their eyes (“It’s only February, for gosh sakes!”), and others to arch their eyebrows when they absorbed Andy’s honest (if not entirely satisfying)confession that he was pulling out because of simple “fatigue.”

I like Andy, but I have to admit that my Inner Truth Seeker jumped up, punched the air, and said, “Yes!” when I read this story in The Las Vegas Sun.

Money quote:

Good thing Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman isn't worried about selling tickets. Or refunding them. Just as predictable, hizzoner wasn't bashful about saying what was on his mind, and he didn't whisper it off the record behind closed doors in the player's lounge.

Grabbing the microphone at the official tournament draw Saturday, Mayor Goodman basically called Roddick a phony who reneged on his word. Then he said the real reason Roddick bailed on the TCO was because Lleyton Hewitt was going to kick his rear end. (He actually said "rear end'' too, although it took all his restraint not to use the real word in front of the genteel country club types.)

I like it when people have the guts to say what they really think, and I also like it when people hold tennis players accountable for their actions in an era characterized by rampant greed, ethical ambiguity, and an increasing sense that tennis players, like celebrities in general, are out of touch with the covenant they make with fans. Celebs today have figured out that as long as they keep finding ways to stay in the public eye, they can do—or not do—anything they want. I’ve written about this before, calling it the Caligula Complex.

Ironically, Andy always struck me as one of the more responsible athletes in this regard. It's unfortunate that he was the one who led a stand-up guy like Mayor Goodman to pop up on our radar. But these days, you’ve got to take your up-front and honest folks wherever you can find them, especially among politicians!

My take on the Andy issue: If it was just fatigue, it was wrong for Andy to pull out. However, I respect him for having the decency to be honest about it, instead of cooking up some phony-baloney injury in a cheap attempt to have it both ways: get out of a tournament commitment, yet not anger or alienate the fan base.

I say it often, but I can’t say it enough. Few of the actual “crimes” tennis players commit against the game are as bad as the hypocrisy players practice in trying to cover them up. If you hated Jimmy Connors for everything else, you had to love him for being man enough to say: “I do the crime, I do the time.”

At the same time, I imagine that the fatigue Roddick cites is metaphorical as well as literal. He must be tired of the relentless speculation about his coaching upheavals, the wisdom of the apparent “catch Roger” strategy that seems to have been driving his approach to tennis for almost two years, and the spate of recent losses that can be traced back to the disastrous Gilles Muller loss at the U.S. Open.

I get the feeling that Andy is experiencing some turmoil and is looking to buy a little time in an effort to regroup and get things back under control. This may be a defining moment in his career: a time when he rethinks his entire program and either finds a way to punch back up to take his place among a Big Four (Federer, Nadal, Safin, Roddick), or a time when he accepts a not entirely horrific fate as the King of the Second Tier.

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En gros ça dit que qu'il croit pas qu'Andy était fatigué et que la vraie raison c'est qu'Hewitt était là et il avait peur de se faire botter les fesses

Ron Kantowski is tired of overpaid athletes like Andy Roddick who talk a big game but then fail to make good on their word

One of the selling points of Las Vegas' version of the Tennis Channel Open is that it is so much more than just an ATP tour stop.

There is no shortage of things you can do on the midway at the spiffy Darling Tennis Center out in Summerlin while the guys with the big serves who wear their ball caps backward are changing sides.

You can have your serve timed, and see how it measures up against the guys with the big serves and backward ball caps. There are parlor games, such as table tennis and air hockey. There is a women's tournament and a junior tournament and a platform tennis tournament and a couple of college matches featuring the UNLV women's team. There's music and art and instructional clinics and exhibits and trivia contests. There's even a contest to see who can string a tennis racquet the fastest.

This is what the tournamment organizers call "Tennispalooza.''

About the only thing you won't be able to do - if you are lucky enough to find a parking spot during the weeklong Tennis Channel Open that runs today through Sunday - is watch Andy Roddick beat some guy wearing a backward ball cap that you've never heard of in straight sets.

That's because Roddick, the world's fourth-ranked player *il est pas encore 3 me semble * and the TCO's top seed and biggest attraction, announced Friday, fewer than 72 hours before the start of the tournament, that he was withdrawing because of fatigue.

This is what the tournament organizers call "Andy's-a-looza.''

Actually, that's what the tournament organizers would call it if they had a big racquet in their bag. But this tournament is such a good idea that it actually might last a year or two beyond this one. And then they might need Roddick, or at least his name, to sell tickets again next year.

So tournament organizers refused to call him for a blatant double fault: Saying he would play, and then lying about it.

Tournament director Steve Bellamy said something about how the TCO would have loved to have had Roddick but because the field is so deep, it wouldn't miss him all that much. How predictable.

Good thing Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman isn't worried about selling tickets. Or refunding them. Just as predictable, hizzoner wasn't bashful about saying what was on his mind, and he didn't whisper it off the record behind closed doors in the player's lounge.

Grabbing the microphone at the official tournament draw Saturday, Mayor Goodman basically called Roddick a phony who reneged on his word. Then he said the real reason Roddick bailed on the TCO was because Lleyton Hewitt was going to kick his rear end. (He actually said "rear end'' too, although it took all his restraint not to use the real word in front of the genteel country club types.)

Earlier, Bellamy said Roddick "felt bad'' about pulling out, but he (Roddick) didn't think he "had the energy'' to go the distance here.

That has got to be the weakest excuse since the late Redd Foxx told the IRS that the check was in the mail. Too fatigued? Lack of energy? You're 23 years old, Andy. Have a Gatorade for cryin' out loud. Take the supermodels home early and get a good night's sleep.

The tournament committee apparently was so busy trying to get the hospitality tents set up that it didn't have time to update the official Web site over the weekend.

Roddick's picture and statistics were still all over it. If you didn't see The Mayor go ballistic Saturday night on Channel 8, you would swear he was still playing. For instance, by midday Sunday, nobody had made an effort to take down Roddick's giant likeness from the stanchions lining Durango Drive on the way into the tennis center.

Here's what I would do: Take Roddick's billboard down and tack it back up in the Tennispalooza section. Charge fans who paid hundreds of dollars to watch him play here this week another $5 to "Pin the Lame Excuse on Andy Roddick.''

The line forms behind Mayor Goodman..

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Ça dit pratiquement la même chose..mais en plus il dit que les fans paient très cher pour des billets pour voir Andy. HELLO !? c'est pas marquer sur les billets quel jour et quel heure va jouer

Et ça dit qu'à 23 ans tu devrais pas être fatigué. Que pour remédier à la situation il peut prendre un Gatorade et amené les mannequins plutôt chez lui *fiesta hen* et prendre une bonne nuit de sommeil.

le temps que je lise tout...lol

non mais jy crois pas !!!!!!!!!!sa " m'ecoeure " , moi je serai fan , je minquièterais pour lui je men ficherai davoir acheter des billets et quil y soit pas , il y a dautre joueur a aller voir !!

et je pense pas quhewitt lui fasse peur, il a participais a dautre tournoi ou il y été ! et il a pas déclaré forfait, c pas contre hewitt quil a perdu ! et oui jai lu aussi qq part quil été quatrième mais il est toujours troisième ! lol

enfin bref, jappelle sa des gens jaloux , et pres a critiquer la première personne quil peuvent, et oser dire quils sont des fans, sa me met hors de moi je sais mêem pu koi dir elol

Quand j'ai lu j'ai voulu faire un meurtre L'argent mène le monde hen..ils s'en fouttent qu'Andy jouent 11 mois par année pratiquement et que OUI après 3 tournois de suite ON PEUT être fatigué MÊME À 23 ANS.

Heureusement plusieurs ont écrit au crétin qui a écrit ça et c'était pas de toute beauté