yeh thats weird, i was thinkin  about the wimbledon match 2 years ago when , or actually less than 2 years when PIM PIM as hes nicknamed beat greg RSEDSKI and i see he was no.9 career high, what happend injury i have read but he is 640 IN THE WORLD RITE NOW, tennis tour is so feeble, u see this happening, like that russian/ukranian/serbian/australian girl what was her name ? when she dropped down rankings i mena he is 640 and hes only 24/25 and he was 9th

He's been back for a bit, from what I see.. But before this tournament he's only played like 5 tournaments this year. With 2 of those being futures in Sweden where he won 1 of them and got to the Semis in the other where he had to withdraw, not sure what for though.

next up is rafa i think, a tough test, but on indoor maybe his big serve will help

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Was it Jelena Dokic?

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It was....I got a ball signed by her three years ago at Indian Wells....

Another player who just disapeared without a trace was the Romanian girl who bumped Venus Williams at the 1997 US Open semi final.  I remember thinking that this could be a good rivalry and then she just disapeared.  I can't even remember her name.  I think it was Irina something.

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Montana Doug wrote:

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Another player who just disapeared without a trace was the Romanian girl who bumped Venus Williams at the 1997 US Open semi final.  I remember thinking that this could be a good rivalry and then she just disapeared.  I can't even remember her name.  I think it was Irina something.

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Irina Spirlea. She reached no 9 after that win, played until about 2000 and then the results end so she must have retired or got injured after that.

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That is right....but she was quite young right?  I don't remember her being on she scene for long, but making a splash at the US Open and now gone.  Funny, she was portrayed as the villian over here after the 1997 US Open, racist etc, so I wonder if it got to her and she just stayed in Europe or went home. 

and he just beat Nadal!