Costa Rica FI - San Jose 10K (hard)

steven · Tennis legend

Costa Rica FI - San Jose 10K (hard)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

interesting article on Peter Polansky form steve G...

"Player Profile
Two weeks ago, Canadian Peter Polansky celebrated his 19th birthday. Last year he didn't know whether or not his tennis career could even continue. It was quite a tumultuous year. While at an event in Mexico in April, Polansky suffered a horrific injury. But it didn't occur on the tennis court. While asleep in his hotel room, he dreamed there was an intruder in his room with a knife. While still asleep he got out of his bed kicked in the window and plummeted three stories. His body was filled with glass, his leg was torn open at the calf and bleeding badly. He was fighting for his life. After five hours of surgery and 400 stitches, he was confined to a wheelchair and faced rehabilitation. But within five months he was back on the tennis court and reached the finals of the Canadian Open juniors event. From there it was onto the US Open where he reached the finals again, defeating Donald Young in the semifinals. Later he also reached the semifinals of the Orange Bowl. At the pro level he reached the quarterfinals in USA F25 in October. Now in 2007, with his juniors career at an end, he has turned to the pro game full time and is off to a blazing start. He won his first event of the year in El Salvador F1. As a wild card he reached the finals without dropping a set then took on the #6 seed Jan Stancik. After dropping the first set, he cruised to his first career futures title. The next week, the week of his 19th birthday, he backed it up with his second title in a row in Guatemala F1. Both of those points go on the rankings this week and he soars 240 spots to #581. Since that US Open juniors event last year, Polansky has a combined juniors and pro record of 31-8, including a 10-1 start this year. He has already gone through qualifying at Costa Rica F1 this week to extend that to 13-1. Is this just a hot streak or a sign of things to come? Fresh out of juniors, Peter Polansky is making an incredible comeback and now starting to make his way up the pro rankings. "

Salmon · Tennis legend

Yeah, I had read that Polansky was a somnambulist on the Canada Masters site.

I think that he was in Mexico as a fifth member of the Davis Cup team. Great story... hopefully he will keep on playing quality tennis. Best of luck to him.

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Although this tournament was played last week, it has appeared on the ATP's futures page THIS week. (it wasn't there last week!)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

Polansky qualified and won the tournament again...

He's on a rich vein of form

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

johnnylad wrote:

Although this tournament was played last week, it has appeared on the ATP's futures page THIS week. (it wasn't there last week!)

Is the full, completed draw up? The only reason I can think why that's the case (leaving out simple error on the part of the ATP) is because the points don't go on until the end of this week. But surely then all the futures would be having the same issue