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Becker News + Blog
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Becker named to German Davis Cup Squad
BB will make his Davis Cup debut next week as Germany hosts Croatia in the city of Krefeld. BB joins Australian Open semifinalist Tommy Haas, Alexander Waske and Michael Kohlmann...as they try to upset a very strong Croatian team led by Ivan Ljubcic and Mario Ancic.
Benjamin is extremely excited about this opportunity and is very much looking forward to representing his country.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
BB wins first round match at ITC
Benjamin faced Kevin Kim, another former NCAA player, last night in his first of 2 round robin matches at the International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach...The temperatures hovered around 50 degrees which is pretty chiller for South Florida standards. The first set was very tight. BB broke in the first game but was broken back at 3-2...Kim had set points with BB serving at 4-5 and again at 5-6 but BB held firm and convincingly took the tiebreaker. BB again broke early in the second set, but again was broken back. Fortunately, BB was able to break again at 4-3 and served out the match after saving break point. It was not easy, but BB got the job done.
Benjamin, who is seeded 4th at this event, next plays young American, Jesse Levine, who is having a breakout performance this week having qualified and won yesterday in his Main Draw Elimination match. If BB can get through he is assured of a quarterfinal spot.
This photo was taken by Mark Da Cunha who is on hand this week taking great photos of BB and other Renaissance Tennis clients.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Becker Training in South Florida
BB enjoyed his time in Australia...This photo was taken by Manueal Davies of ProPix during his press conference after his first round match with Safin. BB is now back at home in South Florida...training with the Team...Many of the guys are playing the USA F3 futures in Boca and therefore they are training there instead of Miami. BB is preparing for his debut appearance at the Intnernational Tennis Championships at Delray Beach next week where they will be employing another round robin format. Also playing in this event are Blake, Haas, Fish and Malisse. If you are in South Florida please come out and support BB as he tries to continue his impressive and unprecedented rise up the rankings.
Monday, January 15, 2007
BB Battles but Goes Down to Safin
BB fought hard for over 4 hours on Rod Laver Arena Monday night in Melbourne...Unfortunately he could not maintain his one-set leads after the 1st and 3rd sets and went down 57 76 36 63 64 to Marat Safin.
Safin had this to say about Becker:
"I knew he beat Agassi and he has a lot of respect from the players, he's a very tough opponent. I think we had a great match but I think I had the more experience and I hit some great shots."
BB is paired up with Jaime Murray, younger brother of Andy Murray, in the doubles.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Becker draws Safin in Aussie Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — Former Baylor tennis standout Benjamin Becker will face former world No. 1 Marat Safin of Russia next week in the first round of the Australian Open. Safin, 26, won the Open in 2005 and reached the final in both 2002 and 2004, and is 26-6 in seven previous appearances in Melbourne. He is ranked 26th in the world. Becker, 25, will be playing in his first Australian Open after making his Grand Slam debut last year at Wimbledon with a first-round win over No. 42 Juan Ignacio Chela. He also ended the career of Andre Agassi in the third round of the U.S. Open before losing to eventual finalist Andy Roddick. He is currently ranked a career-best 58th in the world. [Tribune-Herald staff report]
Monday, January 08, 2007
Becker notches first win of 2007
BB started his 2007 in Adelaide last week. The tournament served as the inaugural event using one of the new round robin formats. Becker was placed in a group with Arnaud Clement and Chris Guccione. Unfortunately, BB lost both matches and failed to advance to the quarterfinals. Guccione had the week of his career, advancing to the finals.
This week BB and Tarik are in Sydney...and earlier today, BB took out Filipo Volandri in straight sets...63 62. He now awaits the winner of Frenchmen Richard Gasquet, the 6th seed, and Julian Benetteau.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
German Interview
For all our German friends we are working on building a German Becker site...hopefully we will have something up in time for the European Clay Court season.
In the meantime, enjoy this interview that recently appeared on the internet.
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