Together with my sis, we headed to the Putra Stadium to pick up press kit yesterday.
The security was very tight and the IMG staff, contractors and volunteers were as busy as bees getting ready for the biggest tennis tournament in this country.
I didn't expect to see any players at the centre court, so I wasn't prepared (not equipped with camera).
I managed to Tweet a bit before my phone battery went flat.
A lawsuit filed by Richard Gasquet has been dismissed, with no finding on whether he took cocaine nor whether an outside source was responsible.Pamela, the woman who kissed him was part of the investigation was ordered to attend a drug rehabilition program after she was found to be a regular cocaine user.
Serena Williams has pulled out of Tokyo with knee and toe injuries.
Roger Federer has pulled out of Toyko and Shanghai. He did not mention any specific reason for the withdrawals. In his website, Federer said "After consultation with my team and doctors, I decided to take the difficult decision to withdraw from both tournaments so that I can give my body a chance to rest, rehabilitate and fully recover from a physically challenging year."
Kim Clijsters will centre her 2010 schedule around young daughter Jada and around the four Grand Slams, planning a limited program that will put family first.Clijsters said she ultimately plans to play a total of about 16 tournaments, concentrating on the four Grand Slams. For the rest of this season, she will play in two exhibition matches.
Jelena Dokic's dad, Damir was sentenced to a 15-month jail term for threatening the Australian ambassador in Belgrade.The threats were made in relation to comments by Jelena in an interview with an Australian Sports & Style magazine.
The singles qualifying draw has been announced and surprisingly Malaysia has seven (7) players in it!
They are Nazim Khan, Azli Zainudin, Raj Kanagar, Faizal Osmann, K Somasundram, Si Yew Ming and Adam Jaya.
If you look at the line-up in a positive way, you can call it one of the easiest to qualify for the main draw!
Good luck to fellow Malaysians!
ORDER OF PLAY - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 CENTER COURT start 10:00 am Qualifying - B Evans (USA) vs [WC] M Bin Othman (MAS) Qualifying - [WC] K Somasundram (MAL) vs A Qureshi (PAK) Qualifying - R Bopanna (IND) vs [WC] K Balakrishnan (MAS) Qualifying - M Yani (USA) vs S Huss (AUS)
COURT 1 start 10:00 am Qualifying - M Kukushkin (KAZ) vs [WC] A Bin Zainuddin (MAS) Qualifying - [WC] N Khan (MAL) vs W Jun (KOR) Qualifying - M Fyrstenberg (POL) vs Y Si (MAS) Qualifying - S Lipsky (USA) vs A Jaya (MAS)
Remember the original version of "We Are The Swiss" made popular by Roger Federer?
Looks like Federer not only inspired Justine Henin's return to professional tennis and Rafael Nadal's proposal to Xisca (although it was only a rumour), he also inspired the remix version of that famous Swiss song.