The Tennis Family ---Snap Snap

What a great start to the week with this clever Gif spoof on the Addams Family replacing them with the current top men from the ATP tour. Federer indeed makes a great Gomez and Agassi is perfect as Uncle Fester and Rafa as Wednesday .I found this on the web and would credit the maker if i had the details, but well done to the creator.

Day 3 French Open Tennis Picks

Not bad with the Ladies picks yesterday but average with the Men's.Match of the day was Andy Murray coming from 2 sets down against Gasquet.Murray is very like Hewitt with his berating of his supporters box when things are not going well.I picked around 21 Ladies winners yesterday but Men's wise did not fare so good with only around 17.A few seeds exited the Men's draw yesterday ...guys you would think would do a little better on Clay made their exit among those Robredo and Lopez.
Well here goes with today's pick again my selections are in bold.
Ladies Singles

Justine Henin(BEL)[22]vs Tsvetana Pironkova(BUL)
Marion Bartoli(FRA)[13] v Maria Elena Camerin(ITA)
Dinara Safina(RUS)[9] vs. Kimiko Date Krumm(JPN)
Maria Sharapova(RUS)[12] vs. Ksenia Pervak(RUS)
Alize Cornet(FRA) vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova(RUS)[29]
Sandra Zahlavova(CZE) vs. Yanina Wickmayer(BEL)[16]
Daniela Hantuchova(SVK)[23] vs. Tamarine Tanasugarn(THA)
Ayumi Morita(JPN) vs. Kirsten Flipkens(BEL)
Mariana Duque Marino(COL) vs. Sybille Bammer(AUT)
Katie O'brien(GBR) vs. Jill Craybas(USA)
Jarmila Groth(AUS) vs. Yung-Jan Chan(TPE)
Klara Zakopalova(CZE) vs. Katarina Srebotnik(SLO)
Anastasia Pivovarova(RUS) vs. Ioana Raluca Olaru(ROU)
Shahar Peer(ISR)[18] vs. Nuria Llagostera Vives(ESP)
Vania King(USA) vs. Bethanie Mattek-Sands(USA)
Jie Zheng(CHN)[25] vs. Ekaterina Bychkova(RUS)
Shenay Perry(USA) vs. Olivia Sanchez(FRA)
Anastasia Rodionova(AUS) vs. Ekaterina Makarova(RUS)
Olga Govortsova(BLR) vs. Carla Suarez Navarro(ESP)
Alberta Brianti(ITA) vs. Vera Zvonareva(RUS)[21]

Mens Singles
Andy Roddick(USA)[6] vs. Jarkko Nieminen(FIN) * going for an upset here, just know that Roddick will go out early maybe not this early but is a hard forst round match up.
Lleyton Hewitt(AUS)[28] vs. Jeremy Chardy(FRA) *not looking great for the Aussie Battler , probably will go out first round but can't bring myself to go against him.
Fernando Verdasco(ESP)[7] vs. Igor Kunitsyn(RUS)
Gianni Mina(FRA) vs. Rafael Nadal(ESP)[2]
Mischa Zverev(GER) vs. Nicolas Mahut(FRA)
Juan Carlos Ferrero(ESP)[16] vs. Pablo Cuevas(URU)
Robby Ginepri(USA) vs. Sam Querrey(USA)[18]
David Guez(FRA) vs. David Ferrer(ESP)[9]
Jurgen Melzer(AUT)[22] vs. Dudi Sela(ISR)
Marc Gicquel(FRA) vs. Pere Riba(ESP)
Santiago Ventura(ESP) vs. Andreas Seppi(ITA)
Eduardo Schwank(ARG) vs. Blaz Kavcic(SLO)
Karol Beck(SVK) vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber(GER)[30]
Denis Istomin(UZB) vs. Benjamin Becker(GER)
Grega Zemlja(SLO) vs. Juan Monaco(ARG)[26]
Florent Serra(FRA) vs. Michael Russell(USA)
Teimuraz Gabashvili(RUS) vs. Daniel Koellerer(AUT)
Horacio Zeballos(ARG) vs. Martin Fischer(AUT)
Potito Starace(ITA) vs. Illya Marchenko(UKR)
Xavier Malisse(BEL) vs. Simon Greul(GER)

Well that's it for Day 3 a few good match ups and of course Rafa on court finally.

The French Open Tennis

The premier Clay court event starts next week,The men's winner will come from the below list which makes up the top 20 clay courters for the past year.
1 2 Rafael Nadal (ESP) ...My tip for the title
2 1 Roger Federer (SUI) ........will be hard to beat
3 11 David Ferrer (ESP) .......a threat except for the top 2 seeds
4 7 Robin Soderling (SWE) ......last years finalist and I think has had his moment in the sun
5 9 Fernando Verdasco (ESP) ....flashy and cant go all the way in a grandslam
6 18 Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP) ...past winner no threat to the top seeds
7 6 Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) out with injury
8 14 Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) hasnt has the best year so far
9 30 Juan Monaco (ARG) ....a pretender
10 37 Victor Hanescu (ROU) ....a pretender
11 22 Nicolas Almagro (ESP) ....good recent form
12 28 Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) ....a pretender
13 24 Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) ....wont win it
14 27 Ernests Gulbis (LAT) ....a wild card and has great form ...may have discovered how to win.
15 5 Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) injured
16 38 Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) ..... pretender
17 3 Novak Djokovic (SRB) ...... average form hasnt done much since his service action changed
18 4 Andy Murray (GBR) ....setting for wimbledon no doubt ...a little beyond him here in Paris
19 34 Albert Montanes (ESP) ..... pretender
20 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) ......contender but will struggle with tough matches and longer rally's

The first number is Clay court ranking and the second is ATP ranking.I havnt even rated Andy Roddick , in fact where is Andy Roddick?I think he will be good for a couple of rounds at best and then re-group for Wimbledon.Here is a couple of names to watch out for with major rises in ATP rankings, Thiemo de Bakker (NED) from 76 to 50 and a player thats been around for a while Juan Ignacio Chela 82 to 48 and Santiago Giraldo (COL) 83 to 55.

Roddick Rocks Nadal

Well I have a feeling Roddick can win this title against the in form Tomas Berdych .Roddick convincingly defeated Nadal who is still searching for his best form.Total points Roddick 86 Nadal 74.Just seems that Rafa just hasnt got that serve going yet, not that he is ever going to out serve Roddick but since his injury it just doesn't seem to be as effective prior.Watch Nadal when he throws something into the crowd he does it with his right arm, and we all know that the throwing action relates to the serve.Nadal throws right handed and maybe this trait means his serve will never be feared like a Roddick. And in the Ladies Kim Clijsters won a dramatic semi-final battle of the Belgians against Justin Henin to reach the final of the Sony Ericsson Open on Thursday.

Lord of the Dance-Federer and Nadal

Footwork is a key component for any one that wants to reach the top.
Juniors need to work hard and keep improving in this area.Here is a small presentation with a little fun added,make sure you subscribe to new articles, with Wimbledon approaching this is where the news will be.