Tommy Haas Among Wimbledon Wildcard Recipients

Surprised that Heather Watson’s ranking has dropped so low that she needs a wild card.

June 21st, 2017 at 2:07 pm

Good move.
Tommy has has some wondrous days on grass (courts), and this is his last year. Just lost in the Halle QFs today to Tomic.

A long career of promise, unfortunate injury to himself plus a year when he stayed out of tennis to care for his parents who were badly injured in a car accident. And Moments of Glory. In his career he has beaten Sampras, Agassi, Hewitt, Federer, Djokovic, Murray…sometimes in title matches. Everyone but Nadal.

My wife argued with a friend for years on who was better looking – Haas, or Safin.

June 21st, 2017 at 6:07 pm

Safin by miles…and he is still going, on the other hand Haas became son in law of some rich dude, filthy rich dude, and that’s what he will stay, son in law of “that and that person”..never had pedigree of real macho man, just poster boy..

June 21st, 2017 at 6:47 pm

TH Is a handsome guy , with alot of talent, nice to see him back playing, but i dont expect anything much from him anymore, and i doubt any of the WC to be much of a factor, probably the exception would be Shapovalov, the rest seem to be there to make up the numbers, a bunch of Brits losing in the first round as per usual (yawn) ….

June 22nd, 2017 at 4:31 am

chrisford, is your wife not aware of your good looks?

June 22nd, 2017 at 6:54 am

@Chrisford – there are some questions, like your wife’s, that don’t have a correct answer. Both are good looking men! :-)

@Wog Boy – Haas may have never won a slam, but he is well known among the tennis community (including fans). I’ve found that a lot of my friends who follow tennis know who Haas is, but have no idea who David Foster is. Plus now that David Foster is producing the Haas-Federer-Dmitrov boy band, Haas’s renown will grow. :-)

June 22nd, 2017 at 11:29 am

CF1, Both my sister love both equaly.

One may say Haas is more better looking, but Safin defintlyhas more macho mojo going on, bad boy. Which women love

June 22nd, 2017 at 4:20 pm

Daniel definitely Safin for me too the tatooed sexy bad boy, Haas is nice looking but a bit too Mr Clean cut for me, i like a man with a bit of an edge to them, just me ….

June 22nd, 2017 at 4:34 pm

RZ,
You missed my point, it is nothing to do with winning GS, but I won’t go to details, it might end up as XXX rated post:)

As for David Foster, it doesn’t matter how many people know who DF is, what matters is that Haas knows who David Foster is …

As a man, I would go out (to socialize) with Safin any time of day and night, you know it will be filled with action not so with Haas..

As from tennis point, I rate Safin, and Nalbandian for that matter, BH arguably the best in the game.

June 22nd, 2017 at 5:19 pm

I love a man who is a beast on red dirt and loves to 🐟 and eat 🍦!!! Lol

June 22nd, 2017 at 5:20 pm

@Wog Boy – what, you don’t consider bad singing with fellow tennis pros and accompanied by David Foster on the piano a night of action? :-)

Story about Safin that someone told me (completely unverified but it sounds like it could have happened) when I used to volunteer at the Los Angeles tennis tournament that is held at the UCLA campus. I was on the transportation squad, where we would drive players, coaches, and/or umps to/from their hotels, matches, practice locations, etc. The players would come to the transportation table and ask for a ride, and a volunteer would go to get a car from the parking lot and pick up the player to take to wherever. The whole process of getting the car would take 5 minutes. Apparently in a prior year to when I volunteered, Safin showed up for a ride but didn’t want to wait the 5 minutes. He instead went out onto the college campus, flagged down a car being driven by a pretty lady, and got into it with her. Fortunately as far as I know, he made it to his next match.

June 23rd, 2017 at 12:48 pm