by Minter Dial | May 22, 2009 | Sports
This year, Roland Garros and the French Federation of Tennis (FFT) have launched a programme (“Operation Balle Jaune”) to recycle the used tennis balls as part of a Sustainable Development program. There are 14 million balls sold every year in France...
by Minter Dial | Jun 9, 2008 | Sports
The French Open 2008 came to a close with yet another resounding victory for Rafael Nadal as the Men’s Champion and the win of Ana Ivanovic on the Women’s side coinciding with her ascension to the #1 world ranking. For Nadal (at right with his bionic...
by Minter Dial | Nov 24, 2007 | Branding, Marketing, Sports
Who is the greatest male tennis player ever? Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Bill Tilden, Rod Laver … Gonzales, Perry, Borg, McEnroe… The argument rages eternal among tennis players and fans and, aside from cyber-imagination, there are no ways for us to level...
by Minter Dial | Jul 8, 2007 | Sports
Even though I don’t have Canal+ (cable station in France), I was able to read the score line via BBC Sports Live and watch the end on a miniature screen. What a match. Federer found the resources to overcome his clay nemesis to make it his 5th consecutive...
by Minter Dial | Jun 11, 2007 | Sports
Somehow, it wasn’t exactly an exciting match. There was, despite the ludicrous (16/17) number of missed break points for Federer, an inevitability to the Nadal win (6-3 4-6 6-3 6-4) at the ’07 French Open Finals. The 59 unforced errors by Federer made him...
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