International Tennis Stars

[tennis6]

ATP #1 ranked player in the world & reigning King of Tennis Novak Djokovic will start his 2012 season next week @ Abu Dhabi

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Looks like a few posts dissappeared

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Here is the link 2 the old thread...a few posts were deleted but I am working on re-creating them in the new thread cuz they were good 1s

Sexy Tennis Stars

[quasar]

^ My fault entirely! In my defense, there WERE some pretty hot pics - my mind wandered... and I think my fingers must have followed it! Senior blond moment strikes again!

[aagold76]

not a huge fan of the title- didn't realize it was the replacement for Sexy Tennis Stars...there are several tennis related threads- thought this was just another.....thought it was going to be named Sexy Tennis Stars 2012...???? (Like the Fakes thread- Just gets a new year each year)

[theoside]

he is a hottie for sure.

[tennis6]

not a huge fan of the title- didn't realize it was the replacement for Sexy Tennis Stars...there are several tennis related threads- thought this was just another.....thought it was going to be named Sexy Tennis Stars 2012...???? (Like the Fakes thread- Just gets a new year each year)

I thought about that but it took 4 years 'til "sexy tennis stars" reached 5000 posts & needed 2b archived...plus I thought this new title would help avoid the "he's not sexy" remarks

As for the posts that got misplaced...1 of them was a comment about Milos Raonic's ass & it just so happens that today is his 21st birthday

here's a rearview pic of the reigning ATP Newcomer of the Year along with a few other player butt shots

Milos Raonic, Tomas Berdych, Richard Gasquet, Jan Hajek & James Blake

[tennis6]

Next up are posts about past Champions of the 3 upcoming Aussie Open warm up events...1st is Brisbane which depending on your time zone starts in just 4 days!!!
No draws posted yet but here r some pix of past winners

Tommy Haas, Andy Roddick, Michael Llodra, Nicolay Davydenko & Robin Soderling who I believe is still rehab & will not be able 2 defend that title

[tennis6]

Next up starting a day later is Chennai...past winners from there include:

Xavier Malisse, Paradorn Srichaphan, Mikhail Youzhny, Michal Tabara & reigning champ Stan Wawrinka

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The Qatar Open also starts Sunday & here a some past title holder pix from Doha

Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Wally Masur, Stefan Koubek & Fabrice Santoro

[iloveryanandjake88]

so excited for another year and fesh batch of shirtless hotties in australia!

[tennis6]

Kei Nishikori celebrates his 22nd birthday in Brisbane today practicing with his team & Ryan Harrison...he just posted this pic on FB showing a bump in the front so we'll do a bulge post!!!

Kei Nishikori, Marinko Matosevic, Tobias Kamke, Philipp Petzschner & Tommy Haas

[tennis6]

Wow so much going on this weekend!!!

In Perth the Hopman Cup starts with Czech team Berdych/Kvitova as the #1 seed followed by:

#2 France Gasquet/Bartoli
#3 Spain Verdasco/Garrigues
#4 USA Fish/Mattek-Sands

Here's some nice pix of Thomas Berdych

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Rounding out the 8 mixed team competion are:

China Li Na/Wu Di
Denmark Wozniacki/Nielsen
Australia Gajdosova/Hewitt
Bulgaria Pironkova/Dimitrov

some nice pix of Grigor Dimitrov

[tennis6]

Still no draws from the 3 ATP tournies yet but tomorrow is the 6 man draw @ the annual Abu Dhabi Exibition where they some how bypassed Djokovic & gave the 2 byes to Nadal & Federer so I'll give Rafael the pix on this post

[elle]

yay!

[aagold76]

I saw where Djokovic beat Monfils....not sure who else is playing there

[iloveryanandjake88]

Disgusted really that as the number one Novak didn't get the bye with Rafa. Oh and what a surprise, Novak plays Federer in the semis.

From the reported comments today Rafa is still all over the place mentally, I don't know why he and Novak are wasting the time in Abu Dhabi, surely it is not for the money!!!

[Rgncajun]

I've been seeing alot of skin from Stanislas lately, hopefully there's more to come next year. I wanna see that fat ass!

[aagold76]

well- Novak royally kicked Roger's ass....6-2, 6-1...so I don't think he cares where he was postitoned- seeing as how it's an exhibition and they're all there to gauge where they are- I'm guessing Novak's really pleased.

[iloveryanandjake88]

too right, no greater pleasure than seeing novak kick roger's ass. still think the event is a farce and none of them should be playing it, but heyho

[elle]

Please, Federer even let Roddick his bitch win an exhibition match or two.

[tennis6]

Please, Federer even let Roddick his bitch win an exhibition match or two.

Yes I remember Andy telling Roger he would trade a Kooyong trophy 4 a Wimbledon lol

[asianb]

too right, no greater pleasure than seeing novak kick roger's ass. still think the event is a farce and none of them should be playing it, but heyho

not sure what all the Roger hate is all about.

[tennis6]

not sure what all the Roger hate is all about.

Always a DILF 2 me & I would donate a kidney 2 have my pic taken with Roger

[tennis6]

And here we go!!! The qualifying rds are underway in Brisbane now & they have finally released the draw/list

Cute Lithuanian player Grigelis Laurynas made the cut

[iloveryanandjake88]

The things I don't like about Federer are probably the things that turn me on the most. I find him smug and arrogant and think he gets away with saying and doing things that other players would be criticised for. That said I get some kind of perverted pleasure out of watching him beat up my favourite players - like Roddick.

I think the dislike comes more from the worship he gets from pundits etc, it really gets on my nerves. I believe he is the GOAT but I think the real test comes of somebody when they lose and I don't think he shows as much class in defeat as Nadal and certainly not Djokovic.

Well done to Novak today btw, awesome play and so impressive that his form continues. 2012 is going to be good!

[tennis6]

Also trying 2 qualify 4 the Brisbane main draw are:

Amer Delic, Simon Greul, Ricardas Berankis, Matt Reid & Chris Guccione

[aagold76]

if you honestly think Roger would let Novak win 62 61, you're crazy- after last year, Roger would want revenge, and pride would dictate he try as hard as he could against Novak....the Roger hat- I stopped liking him over time- bored it was always him, then the US Open final vs Del Potro made me start disliking him- he was a total prick in that match and has been in several other since- when he realizes the old Roger magic can't pull him out of the hole, he gets obnoxious- sure, it's pride, etc....but it's annoying to watch.

[tennis6]

Over in India Thiemo De Bakker from Belgium is attempting 2 qualify @ his 1st tournament of the season

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Of course the Chennai draw is typically saturated with Asian players...here's some of the Asian qualifier contestants

Jimmy Wang, Go Soeda, Neeraj Elnaegovan, Prajnesh Gunneswaran & Abhijeet Tiwari

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And @ Qatar the lovely Marco Chiudinelli was sadly unable 2 get past rd 1 of the qualifying

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These boys were also in Doha 4 qualifying this year

Dustin Brown, James Ward, Matthias Bachinger, Bjorn Phau & Yuri Schukin

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Tsonga is doing great @ Qatar main draw

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The player Tsonga defeated was Tunisian w/c Malek Jaziri....been witching him for awhile & would love 2c more!!!

here's a pic of Jaziri as well as a few others competing @Qatar maindraw



Gael Monfils, Pablo Andujar, Rafael Nadal & Viktor Troicki

[iloveryanandjake88]

what a lovely treat it is coming back to this thread every day and getting some brilliant pics every time.

tsonga looks more toned to me than last time i saw him, probably a good move

i always forget how hot Chiudinelli is. thanks for the reminder

[tennis6]

Portugal's Frederico Gil had a decent year 2011...bad start 2012 though 1st rd loss @ Chennai

[tennis6]

Here's an actual pic of Eric Prodon & Benoit Paire practicing @ Chennai this week....not pleased yet with the pix so far this year but hopefully they get better & I got plenty in reserve



some other random pix players from the tournament in India

Edouard Roger Vasselin, Janko Tipsarevic, Rendu Lu & Steve Darcis

[tennis6]

And that just leaves Brisbane where Igor Andreev has not only now lost his long time gf Maria Kirilenko but also his mojo...hope his year improves

[tennis6]

These players also had less than successful results @ Brisbane

Adrian Mannarino, Matt Ebden, Jurgen Melzer, Kei Nishikori & Santiago Giraldo

[tennis6]

Some fun pix from this year's Hopman Cup

Finalists Verdasco/Garrigues (they'll play Gasquet/Bartoli 4 the Cup)
Lleyton Hewitt shirt change
& a couple bulge pix from Denmark's Frederik Nielsen

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Other fun shots from 2012's exciting 1st week

Rafael's ass @ Qatar
Andy Murray bulging @ Brisbane
Janko Tipsarevic & Malek Jaziri practicing @ Chennai

[iloveryanandjake88]

great stuff. verdasco looks like he's been doing some crunches cos those abs look more defined than ever.

great to see rafa hitting the ball better today. i was impressed.

hope to see more of the top guys going shirtless soon, probably in AO practice

thanks tennis6

[tennis6]

You're welcome...some r already in Melbourne practicing so hopefully!!!

By next weekend they will be qualifying 4 the AO...1st we have 2 more warm-ups in the Australian Open Series Auckland & Sydney

Here r some past Sidney winners

Reigning champ Gilles Simon, Marcos Bagdhatis, Tim Henman, Dmitry Tursunov & James Blake

[tennis6]

These players r past winners of the Heineken Open

Dominik Hrbaty, Fernando Gonzalez, Jonas Bjorkman, John Isner & Juan Martin Delpotro

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Don't see any draws 4 Sidney yet but the qualies list is out @ Auckland where Italian Flavio Cipolla will b grinding 2 get into the m/d

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These boys will also b @ Heinekin qualy rds

Javier Marti, Pere Riba, Rubin Statham, Eduardo Schwank & Arnau Brugues Davi

[marcus13]

I like Andy.

[marcus13]

Andy Murray.

[iloveryanandjake88]

have you got any pics of roddick, he was in oz practising shirtless and in the poor quality pic i saw was sporting a mowhawk which i love.