The Championships Wimbledon 2008

Well, here we are one year later and for the American men it is business as usual on European soil. It's week two and they all lost in week one. However, on the ladies side there are two American women remaining.

Guess who?

Roland Garros 2008 Champion

Intoducing the 2008 French Open Ladies Champion and new World number one Ana Ivanovic.

The Australian Open

As we head into week two at the Australian only four American singles players are left standing. Let's hear it for James Blake, Vince Spadea and guess who??? Yea, you guessed it! Go Venus and Serena!!

And the New Davis Cup Champions

Team USA
Mission accomplished! The U.S. Team of Roddick, Blake and the Bryan twins defeated Russia 4 -1. After 12 long years of lossing efforts the Dream team comes through.

The Davis Cup Dream Team

Well, no major singles titles for the U.S.Men this year, but they stand on the brink of bringing back one of the most coveted trophies in tennis to the U.S.A.

The Davis Cup!!

Team USA will face Team Russia in the finals for chance to become the best overall nation in tennis. Captain Patrick McEnroe and his team of "A-Rod Andy Roddick", "Big Game James Blake" and the "Battling Bryan brothers, Bob & Mike" will bring their best games to Portland Oregan on November 30th in a effort to defeat the defending champions Russia.

Go Team USA

End of the Road...But not for the Fed Express

He won...What a surprise!! Who would have guessed!
Roger Federer U.S. Open Champion 2007

The End of the Road

She may be tiny, but what a big punch she has! Justin Henin U.S.Open Champion 2007

No More of us!!!

Well.. It is the U.S. Open, but no American players are left!! Sad...Very SAD! Venus, Roddick, Blake, Fish, Ginepri and Serena....did their best!!!, but none availed...maybe next year...or Not!

The Road Trip Ends... We are at the U.S. Open!!

Well, we have arrived at the final stop of The Road Trip!!... the U.S. Open!! Welcome to New York! It is now week number two. And Andy & James are still in the hunt. And so are...you know who...the William's sisters. Go figure??

Week 9 # 23 The End

Well, I just finished!! WOW...What a ride...We started with the Championships...Wimbledon!!! And ending at the gates of the U.S.Open! It started in L.A. and it ends in N.Y...Talk about a cross-country trip, but that is not what I meant....Sneaks went cross-country too!!! He went...East to West!! But...as far as the Internet is concerned...We started with 1.0 and landed in 2.0...And 23 Things turned out to be the real Road Trip!

And what a Ride it was!! I'm so amazed at how much I have learned on this trip. As you can tell I got carried away with RSS Feeds! At home, in the evenings, I've logged into Pandora almost nightly.

I'll tell you something... you're never too old to learn, so don't close your eyes for a second...You might miss something, technology seems to change by the second!

I never knew that there was so much on the web free...programs running totally below my radar! I'll keep up now!!

I can hardly wait for the next assignment.

This has truly been worth the time.

Week 9 # 22 Downloadable eBooks & video

At Project Gutenburg I found The Art of Lawn Tennis...by... Bill Tilden. The title is still available, but not widely. At one time the governing body for tennis in the United States was the USLTA (United States Lawn Tennis Association). In recent times the lawn has been dropped and today it is just the USTA. Grass courts are hard to find in the U.S.

Still the most prestigious event in tennis is still played on the lawns of Wimbledon.The following is an except from the Art of Lawn Tennis Chapter XI The Probable Future of the Game:

Remember this was written in the 1920's.

The champion of the future will
necessarily need more equipment than the champion of to-day. The
present shows us the forehand driving of Johnston, the service of
Murray, the volleying of Richards, the chop of Wallace F.
Johnson, the smash of Patterson, the half volley of Williams, and
the back hand of Pell. The future will find the greatest players
combining much of these games. It can be done if the player will
study. I believe that every leading player in the world in 1950
will have a drive and a chop, fore- and backhand from the
baseline.

Do you think he saw Roger Federer in his crystal ball?

I must admit that I was very impressed by the user friendliness and the download speed of Gutenberg. Keep Gutenberg going.

Overdrive is a different animal, once you download the audio player and learn how it works, it is a great tool. I downloaded American Soldier it did take a while for it to load, but I didn't feel that was a drawback. However, the Adobe ebook I downloaded was Futile and Stupid Gesture and it didn't take long for Adobe to open it.

All in all I liked all the products

Federer Beats Blake in Master's Final 6-,1 6-4

Okay, by now we should be used to it! Mr. Federer struggles with his game all week and Mr. Blake wins easily all week. The two get to the finals and Roger finds his game and James forgets how to play tennis. Federer wins the title and the series. He becomes the fifth youngest man to win 50 titles.

U.S. Open Series Finish

2007 Men's Standings
Position Player Points
1. Roger Federer (SUI) 170^
2. James Blake (USA) 117
3. Andy Roddick (USA) 112
4. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 100
5. Radek Stepanek (CZE) 95
6. (T) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) 70
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) 70
8. Frank Dancevic (CAN) 60
9. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 50
10. Sam Querrey (USA)

Week 9 # 21 Podcasts

Okay folks Last week it was John Isner...This week Djokovic denies Federer the title in Montreal. Sorry, Roger...no Roger's cup for you this year. But, before we get into tennis, let's talk about podcasting


Well, there are a number of Podcast available for sports, even a few for tennis, but nothing really grabbed me! But if you want to give some a try go to mysportsradio Maybe you'll be more impressed than I was.

Back to Tennis...Sam Querrey is at it again, making his first appearance in A Master's Event quarter final. Look out James he beat you two weeks ago.

Week 9 # 20 Roger Federer Cool YouTube

On the Road Again! This time it's the Roger's Cup in Montreal. And guess who just pulled in...They don't call it the Roger's Cup for nothing.

I've used YouTube and Google Video several times for news and sports. It's a nice innovation. Some people feel that it is just fluff, but that is far from the truth.

Young Americans on the Move!

In Indy it was Sam Querrey. This week John Isner into the finals in D.C. And a big win for Donald Young, winning his first Challenger Event at Aptos. Who says American men's tennis is done...Don't think so!

week 8 #19 Web 2.0 Awards List

Decided to take a look at few of these. Wow! I love the CBS sports widget! But I couldn't believe my eyes...I mean ears with Pandora.

Week 8 #18 Online Productivity Querrey beats Blake

Road Trip: On The Road to the U.S. Open

It was the winner's circle for Dmitry Tursunov and Anna Chakvetadze, but it was the Breakthough win for Sam Querrey that was real story. In a dramatic win over defending champion James Blake. Sam aced his way to a 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 victory for his first win over a top ten player.

And by the way, this post was created with Google Docs. So, if you don't have Microsoft Office just use an online productivity product.

Week 6 # 15 Just a few thoughts about Web 2.0

This is some what of an aside from tennis, but I wanted to let you know how and why this blog came to be. This blog has come about from a library project called Maryland Libraries 23 Things. For nine weeks librarians throughout the state of Maryland are currently creating blogs on various topics of interest in order to explore Web 2.0.

I was reading an article by Chip Nilges of OCLC, OCLC developed the WorldCat. WorldCat is a catalog capable of locating library materials throughout the world. The developing philosophy at OCLC is to use Web 2.0 as a means of harnessing collective intelligence, cooperative sharing, reaching out to the world. Their mission is gathering knowledge and spreading it to the world.

As tennis players we might want to use a similar approach and bring tennis on par with golf, no pun intended.

Week 5 # 10 Road Trip: The Road to the U.S. Open

My creation
Originally uploaded by rcampbel21234

The Nights in New York will Rock! The Movie type Poster was created at BighugeLabs! The site was very user friendly. Who is that on the JumboTron?

Road Trip: On the Road to the U.S. Open

In the first final on the Road to the U.S. Open we have the first major upset.
Radek Stepank takes out James Blake 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 in Los Angeles.