“Wozniacki should be a race horse and not a burden”
Ricardo Sanchez has two decades acting as a tennis coach. In his hands have pasadom including two number 1 of the likes of Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki. With the Danish caba to stop working due to incompatibility with his father inside the track and now expects to receive offers to return as soon as possible to the circuit.
Ricardo Sanchez his debut as coach Robert Carter, With whom he won the then called Masters Series Hamburg. After ‘carts’ have passed through his hands James Diaz, Alejandro Falla, Santiago Giraldo, Maurice Ruah, Nicolas Massu, Iraklis Labazde, Juan Luis Rascon, Alejandro Hernandez, Carolina Sprem, Fabiola Zuluaga, Catalina Castano, Mariana Duque and Jelena Jankovic before that last December received a call to train Caroline Wozniacki, No. 1 WTA ranking. “I had several offers on the table. Fernando Verdasco, Jelena Jankovic, Daniela Hantuchova or Bojana Jovanovski were interested in my services but I had already committed to train ‘Carolina’. “I felt cheated because I was going to be sold freely and train it just gave me room to work with. In just five weeks I have gone from being a mere advisory coach” comments from the reflection.
Richie was a happy man when, in December began the preseason with Caroline. “Not all coaches can say they have trained two numbers 1. The preseason was great, but once they started the tournament and got no results (quarterfinals in Sydney and Australia’s Open), became nervous. His father (Piotr Wozniacki) Imposed their system of training and I stayed in the background. I respect their way of working, but do not share. We are like Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho, Two different styles, “says the coach.” In Australia and I realized that the employment relationship had ended. After Melbourne we met in Monte Carlo and agreed to end the professional relationship, “he adds. Ricardo has renounced year contract he had signed and the settlement was not only the affection of a player who trusted him, but has been overtaken by parental decisions.
Despite the brevity of the adventure, Ricardo shows “happy” with how things have developed. “First, because I have been consistent with my ideas and I have ‘swallowed’ with impositions. I coach and I like to be listed as such. And secondly, because I left an excellent personal relationship and wish him the best for the future “, he explains. “I think ‘Carolina’ can win a Grand Slam and return to No. 1 with his father, with me or even the flower seller. Has an exquisite quality and a promising future. But this should improve. Should be more aggressive and make trident in front of the players (Victoria Azarenka, Petra Kvitova, Maria Sharapova) That have demonstrated be stronger. I tried it but did not let me. Wozniacki should be a race horse and not a burden, “he says.
Ricardo is resting a few days in Benidorm waiting to receive an offer in the coming days to return forthwith to the circuit. Male or female, what he wants is to feel the new coach. On the rumors that a possible return to Jelena JankovicRicardo says that “I know that she always wanted to return to work with it, but I will not until you have the freedom I’ve always demanded. He is under the umbrella of his mother and unable to travel alone tournaments she will not “. Let’s wait to see what the next destination of the call …
Carla Suarez is quoted Petra Kvitova in Australia
Carla Suarez is used to run into players on the concrete cache of Melbourne Park courts. The Canary Islands, after passing on his debut in Australia’s Open Irina-Camelia Begu, will intersect with Petra Kvitova, current world No. 2 for a ticket in the third round. For its part, lost to Silvia Soler Sloane Stephens.
Carla Suárez surprised the world in the 2009 edition of the Australia Open by reaching the quarter-finals after leaving the road to big names like Roberta Vinci, Venus Williams, Maria Jose Martinez and Anabel Medina. That Canary 20 years, who had featured in Roland Garros last season, appeared as a player resource terrain to play one on one against any opponent on any surface. Since then injuries have prevented him from progressing as it should, but now seems to have returned to enjoy a level necessary given regularly. Carla debuted at Melbourne Park in 2012 with a victory over Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu 6-1, 7-5 after one hour and thirty-three minutes at the meeting that opened the track 11. After a tentative start in which both players struggled against the wind and gave his service, was the Canaries who took the reins of exchanges and imposed his rule to flick of the wrist, closing the first set in just half an hour of action after sign five consecutive games. The second act was a set without control, where the rest clearly beat the service and where the hot temper at times was the appearance that upset the balance. Thus came the eighth break for Carla in the twelfth game, avoiding the tie-break and seal their place in the second round in Australia, where it was apeada last year.
In the second round, Karla will be crossed with a potential number 1 as the Czech Petra KvitovaThat got rid of the Russian Vera Dushevina by an aggregate score of 6-2, 6-0 in one hour and two minutes of play in the crash that opened the day at the Rod Laver Arena. After giving the first two games of the match, the powerful left-handed Kvitova was activated from the bottom of track. Hit hard and well to move your opponent and prove that it was just a bad start. Signed twelve games in a row to win the first set and close the match with a ‘bagel’. The Czech known to have the number 1 ranking within range (100 points will separate On the Caroline Wozniacki) And has the experience to know what is to taste the sweetness of success in a Grand Slam (Wimbledon 2008). In Australia defends the quarterfinals, but has proved its racketeering tennis to overcome this barrier. Carla and Kvitova have been measured to date twice (Fed Cup 2009, Linz 2009), with victory in both of Bílovec duels.
Silvia Soler became another player last year when, after passing the pre-Roland Garros, in Paris contesting his first final table in a Grand Slam. They reached the second round, even made out of Li Na -To the eventual winners of the tournament-performance that helped him to believe his potential and enter the ‘Top-100′ worldwide. After repeated landmark in New York prior to the third round. This year in Melbourne has not needed before, as its ranking (78) and lets you rub shoulders with the biggest. However, the Elche were eliminated at the first change to the U.S. Sloane Stephens by a score of 6-4, 6-2 after an hour and a half of play in a match played on Track 5. In the second round, Stephens will face Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova, Who needed three sets (6-3, 3-6, 6-0) and one hour and fifty-seven minutes to beat South Africa’s Chanelle Scheepers.
Lourdes Dominguez could not defend the second round last year, achieved his best result in Australia, he fell to the first change to the Serbian Ana Ivanovic by a score of 6-0, 6-3 in a clash played at the Melbourne Park Tennis 2. “I have can not wait to compete again,” said Lourdes on Twitter before its debut on Australian land. The Galician was not competing in the final table of a tournament since Cincinnati (last August) due to a stress fracture and a benign tumor in his right eye forced him to terminate prematurely last season. After conceding a ‘donut’ in the first set showing a lack of match fitness, the Galician was more competitive in the second act, while taking the white flag over to the Balkan power. Ivanovic will need to check now to the Dutch Michaella Krajicek, Who won the German Kristina Barrois by a score of 6-3, 7-6 (4) in a duel fought on Runway 11.
Kuznetsova is felt in Auckland
Sverlana Kuznetsova, Jie Zheng, Flavia Pennetta and Angelique Kerber are the semi-finals in Auckland after a quarter-final bend to Sara Errani, Lucie Hradecka, Elena Vesnina, Sabine Lisicki respectively.
Svetlana Kuznestova Auckland opened the season premiering trainer (Olga Morozova) Tattoo on his right arm and dreams of seeing at the top of the ranking (reached number 2 in the world, is now 19). In 2011, in his only appearance in these parts, he could barely get past the first round. In this edition, has been cast in the semifinals of the event on Thursday after beating the Italian Sara Errani by an aggregate score of 6-4 and 6-3 after an hour and a playroom. Your next hurdle will be on China’s New Zealand cement Zheng Jie, Who won the Czech Lucie Hradecka by a score of 6-2, 6-3 in just an hour of action. Kuznetsova and Zheng were measured six times, always on and always with cement victory for tennis in St. Petersburg.
The other semi-final will play the Italian Flavia Pennetta and German Angelique Kerber. While the Transalpine broke with the Russian authorities Elena Vesnina by a score of 6-2 and 6-1 after one hour and eight minutes of play, the Germanic benefited from the abandonment by her countryman injury Sabine Lisicki (Back problems) when partidp dominated by 6-4 and 4-3. Kerber Pennetta and dividing signed two record a victory each.
Sharapova doubtful for Australia Open
Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova has been removed from the tournament in Brisbane, where he was to start the season with a sprained ankle, but hopes to be fully recovered in the face of Australia Open, the first ‘Grand Slam’ of the course, begins on 16 January.
“Unfortunately my ankle is not one hundred percent and I can not come this year. I was looking forward to the 2012 season in Brisbane, a tournament with a fantastic reputation for giving a warm welcome to players,” said the exnúmero one of the world, would compete for the first time in the event.
The Siberian hopes to be recovered for the ‘big’ Australia, where he defeated in 2008. “I hope to be ready for the first Grand Slam of the year and am looking forward to the track,” he said in a statement on the web.
Elite tennis to developers
Reached number 32 in the world and a benchmark in the women’s tour, but injuries and the need for a sport that requires dedicated Julia Vakulenko made to retire prematurely. Now she works in a real estate business, while still taking the racket weekly to remove the bug.
Julia Vakulenko Born in Yalta, a city of 80,000 inhabitants located in southern Ukraine. At seven he began playing tennis Gala prompted by her mother, a lover of the sport. She grew up riding professionally living between Spain and France, made his professional debut in 1998. He played in the elite for thirteen seasons, which reached number 32 in the WTA ranking, but a wrist injury ended up hanging convince the racket despite their youth. “In 2007 I injured my right wrist when he was playing better. It took a long time to recover and when I returned I did so with limitations. I had to play with a lighter racquet, which prevented me to implement my aggressive style of play and attack . I lost my enthusiasm for this sport and I thought it was time to stop, “he tells the protagonist, whose last appearance on the table dates from January 18, 2010, where he fell in the first round of the ‘Qualy’ of Australia to Open Bethanie Mattek-Sands. “It was a difficult decision because half-life was devoted heart and soul into tennis. The feeling of retiring at 27 is very strange, but I wanted to experience what it was ‘normal’ life and work ‘normal,’” says Julia, who hung the racket after he settled in Paris.
On April 9, 2010, passed by Julia to marry vicarage Yann Leblond, A businessman with whom she shares her passion for life and sport. Ukraine’s worked for eight months in a Cartier store in the heart of Paris, as a consultant at Roland Garros last year and a half is involved in a housing project with her husband, selling luxury apartments with sea views French territory. In addition to its ‘first steps’ in the world of golf, a sport that entertains and allows you to spend more time with your partner, Julia continues to play tennis whenever he can. He lives five minutes from the Stade Roland-Garros, where it joins club with some friends two days a week to keep hitting the ball. “I was afraid I could not play tennis without competing, but do not carry it wrong. I am passionate about this sport,” he says. He says not miss the business (“I was tired of traveling around the world since 14 years,” he says), but the friends who has left on the road. “There is with people who have kept in touch, but with other course is lost. It is also true that the players of my era are gradually withdrawn.”
Past and Future? Spanish
Julia trained for ten years in Barcelona, a city that loves and has a great appreciation. In his day, before that injury, he even weighed the idea that received Spanish citizenship and could defend the interests of the ‘Armada’ in the Fed Cup, “I asked for dual citizenship in 2007 … but has was this year when I got a Spanish passport, “exclaims Vakulenko. In the Barcelona left good friends like Anabel Medina or Arantxa Parra, Of which we are asked how their life is about. “Tennis has evolved greatly in recent years. It’s much more physical, it has lost the variety that contributed players like Justine Henin, Amelie Mauresmo or Patty Schnyder. No one uses the one-handed backhand, changes of pace, … players all seem cut from the same pattern, “he says. Speaking of mirrors that look, Julia realized that she always liked to follow Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin or Lindsay Davenport, But which are still active highlights Serena Williams and Samantha Stosur. “I think that combine quality and character that no other”.
In addition to its pachagas with French legends as Sarah Pitkowski or Mary PierceJulia training children taking their first steps in this sport: “If I could choose to devote it would undoubtedly be a tennis player. But not make some mistakes I had in my career. Now I can serve on that experience to help younger ones “. Julia confesses that does not rule out a future return to Spain as a coach, but now lives happily in the ‘city of love’