Latest posts by Jonas Eriksson
Anger management
Today’s match was a not a good display of anger management. I almost started screaming at my opponent for keeping on giving everything back.
Andre Agassi – Open
The best tennis biography I have read…here is an excerpt. “Standing in the bathroom mirror, toweling off, I stare at my face. Red eyes, gray stubble – a face totally different from the one with which I started. But also different from the one I saw last year in this same mirror. Whoever I might […]
Federer vs Roddick – on DVD
When Federer won his 15th slam in the 2009 Wimbledon final I thought I would be more thrilled. But it was bittersweet. Andy Roddick is not the most versatile player, he is not always an entertaining player to watch, but man this guy got heart! And some hearts he won as well after losing an […]
Tennis rackets worth buying part 1
A great racket and some good strings will improve your game, no question about it. People that say that the equipment has nothing to do with it are lying. It doesn’t have everything to do with it, but you want to give yourself the best odds to win, right? I have experienced with countless of […]
Playing retrievers
When you are playing on a decent club level you come up against a lot of retrievers. Guys that run everything down but don’t give you any pace and you need to hit solid shot after solid shot and after a while you break down completely and start missing. Today I played retriever. He has […]
The Rome final
With the “real” final being played yesterday between Nadal and Gulbis people doesnt’ seem to be so excited about the Rome Masters final, and that for good reason. David Ferrer is never an easy match-up, even for Nadal, but in this kind of form that Nadal is there isn’t a chance in hell that he […]
Ernests Gulbis
This man made the heart of many tennis fans stop yesterday for a little while. He fought the clay king with all his might and was close, oh so close, to getting the impossible W. Yesterday’s match against Nadal in the Rome Masters semi-final was the best match so far this clay season and hopefully […]