U.S. Open Player Party Presented by Heineken - Arrivals Tim Morehouse Photo by Stephen Lovekin
This week has really been a grand inside look at what goes on the week before a major tennis competition. While I’ve never been to Wimbledon or the French Open, I imagine that most of these tournaments have a similar build-up in the days before.
This week, events have been happening all over the city. There were tennis demonstrations in the streets, children’s events and numerous sponsor/corporate events and parties involving the players. Jewelry maker Tiffany’shad an event with Maria Sharpova, K-Swiss had a fashion show featuring former player Anna Kournikova and of course the two players party events on August 22nd and 29th sponsored by Heineken and attended by tons of the players and celebs including Maria Sharprova, Bradley Cooper, Venus Williams, James Blake, Penn Badgley, and also theShamWow guy? (ok, that one is weird)
It’s Andrew Fischl again and I have another video montage for you. This video is a little closer to home than the last two: it features our two-time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist Jason Rogers. This video gives a more in-depth analysis of his accelerated attack. Check it out!
Its not often I get super excited to meet someone, but tonight I was a guest at private dinner with tennis champion Rafael Nadal and this was truly a fun night!
My friends Emma Snowdon-Jones and Courtney Dawson brought me to the little soiree.(Thanks guys!)
Nadal was a true gentlemen and amazingly nice guy. We got to chat a bit. He is a pretty shy guy, but clearly very intelligent.
Per a reader request, Nadal (and all of us) eat an appetizer of lobster and then an entree of filet steak following by some fancy cake type desert and chocolates. (He did not eat dessert…I did.)
I made some great new friends as well. I’m truly blessed/fortunate to continue to have such great experiences and meet so many interesting people!
Good luck to RafaelNadal! The US Open should be that much more fun to watch now!
This was taken the day after we won our medal when we appeared on the Today Show in Beijing.
The Anniversary of our medal winning just passed on August 18th. I can’t believe it’s been a year already…we now have 35 days until we leave for World Championships in Turkey!
Anyway, Tim invited me to be a weekly contributor to his blog so here I am! I recently came out with two videos that combined footage of two fencers to study specific aspects of their games. For those of you who have not seen them here they are. More are on the way.
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