Tennys Sandgren

[Damian]

[Lleyton]

[Barty]

[Barty]

[Barty]

[grzes430]

Sandgren's Mother Requires Medical Time-Out

Spoiler:

Australian Open quarter-finalist’s mother injures herself celebrating son’s success
Tennys Sandgren has taken the Australian Open by storm this fortnight. Entering the tournament without a main draw victory at a Grand Slam, the Tennessean has earned Top 10 wins over ATP World Tour stars Stan Wawrinka and Dominic Thiem, en route to the quarter-finals.


But it hasn’t all been straight-forward for the 26-year-old American. Sandgren's mother, Lia, was jumping up and down while celebrating his success back home when she fell on a pool table, landing in the hospital with a broken rib.

Sandgren addressed the bizarre injury in his post-match press conference after beating Thiem 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-7(7), 6-3 on Monday in the fourth round.

“She didn't have a concussion, thankfully,” revealed Sandgren. “I've got a core neighbourhood group with my mom. They watch a lot of my bigger matches. They'll go in the basement and put the match on the projector screen on the bottom. She has a pool table down there, as well. They were jumping up and down and celebrating. She fell onto the pool table and cracked a rib. Whoops.”


Flashback: ATP’s DEUCE Magazine profiled Tennys Sandgren in 2004
Sandgren

Sandgren will be counting on the support of his mother as he attempts to turn the tables on Hyeon Chung on Wednesday, after losing in three sets to the reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion at the ASB Classic in Auckland earlier this month.

"I was pretty worried. She was describing her pain level. She's a tough woman. I was like, 'You need to go to the hospital'. She's not a doctor person either. I am like, 'You need to go because you don't know if it's a cracked rib, if something is jabbing you in the lung or kidney'. I don't know if ribs can do that,” Sandgren told the press. "I was concerned about it. She went to the hospital, thankfully. She's lying down, resting, watching some tennis and having a good time.”



She’ll hope that her son, the first American quarter-finalist at the Australian Open since Andy Roddick in 2010, can take it one step further and keep his dream run alive against Chung. Speaking to Fox 17 Sports Overtime, Sandgren’s mother revealed, “I have spent most of this week in bed, watching from the comfort of my bed, my son playing tennis Down Under.”

One certainly cannot blame Sandgren's mother for her level of celebration. Tennys is the first player since Martin Verkerk at 2003 Roland Garros to earn his first Grand Slam victory en route to the quarter-finals. His match against Chung will be the first time two players outside the Top 50 of the ATP Rankings will battle in the quarter-finals, semi-finals or final of the Australian Open since the 1991 quarter-finals (No. 114 Patrick McEnroe d. No. 101 Cristiano Caratti).

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE: More Than A Name, Tennys Goes From Bar To A.O. Star
Sandgren's run is one dreams are made of, and nobody would blame him for pinching himself to make sure it's real.

"I actually did a little bit at the end of the match doing the post match interview thinking this would be one of those moments where you wake up. Obviously the first three matches were more than I expected. This one was about as hard-fought as I've ever had a match before. My biggest match, as well, pretty neat," Sandgren said. "I definitely had a real pinch-me moment. 'Wow, this is hopefully real. If I wake up now, I'm going to be real upset'."

Sandgren won't wake up just yet because this is not a dream. But he can make it even better Wednesday against Chung with his mother watching from afar — from the safety of her bed.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/san ... -open-2018

[Damian]

[Lleyton]

Sandgren: "It Was Amazing"

Spoiler:

World No. 97 set for rise up ATP Rankings

Tennys Sandgren arrived in Melbourne having never won a match at a Grand Slam championship. Today, following his 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-3 quarter-final loss to South Korea’s Hyeon Chung, the American enjoys a higher profile.

“The net felt like it was about 12-feet high today,” said Sandgren. “ just struggling to serve the way that I wanted to. But I also knew that I had to serve well and serve to my spots correctly, because he returns so well.

“It was amazing. He's a fantastic player. This is the second time I played him now in two weeks [also ASB Classic]. It's such a fun challenge because he does so many cool things, with how he moves and how he returns and how he plays with his forehand. So it was kind of like an extremely difficult puzzle to try to figure out. I wasn't able to figure it out, but I enjoyed trying."
You May Also Like: From Milan To Melbourne, Chung Keeps Surging

The 26-year-old Sandgren, who first turned pro in 2011, beat Jeremy Chardy, 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka, Maximilian Marterer and World No. 5 Dominic Thiem en route to the Australian Open quarter-finals.

“I'm happy with being resilient. It's not easy to come off some big wins, biggest wins of my career, crazy stages, like quarter-finals of a slam. That's crazy to me.”

Watch Live

Watch Live

The World No. 97 admitted he had planned to compete in a couple of ATP Challenger Tour events, starting this week and next week, but will now switch off and relax before his next scheduled trip to Quito for the Ecuador Open.

“It's all pretty new,” said Sandgren. “Where I'll be ranked [in the ATP Rankings] is interesting. I'm excited about that. Hopefully I can keep playing well.

“I'm going to go home and enjoy time with my family, turn off my phone, just really reflect on the last two weeks, reflect where my life has gone to, where I'm at, where I am in this stage at 26, who I am as a person, who I want to continue trying to be, where I want to go in the sport, where I want to go as a man.”

“The number going up in the bank account really doesn't matter to me that much. I try to work hard every day, and that's where I get my satisfaction from.

“The fact that I have resources to be able to pay for the things I'd like to – like a coach, [to] continue to be able to do that, maybe have a physio travel with me on the road more, help my Mum. She works real hard to support herself. I'd like to be able to help her some, too.”

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/san ... wednesday2

[Damian]

29.01.2018 r.

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 55

[Lleyton]

Tennys Sandgren needs to own what he’s all about

Spoiler:

Tennys Sandgren of the United States looks on in his quarter-final match against Hyeon Chung of South Korea on day 10 of the 2018 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 24, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
By Jerry Bembry
@Jerrybembry
January 24, 2018

MELBOURNE, Australia — Tennys Sandgren spent nearly 2½ hours at Rod Laver Arena trying to attack the cannons directed at him by Hyeon Chung during Wednesday’s quarterfinal match at the Australian Open.

Guess that activity in his straight-sets loss to Chung (6-4, 7-6, 6-3) gave him enough practice to attack the media.

Sandgren, who was revealed this week to have Twitter interactions with extremists and beliefs in extreme conspiracy theories, walked solemnly into the room an hour after his match, pulled out his phone and began reading a statement.

In a monotone delivery, Sandgren blamed the media for putting “people in these little boxes” to satisfy its “already preconceived notions.”

Sandgren said the media created “sensationalist coverage” to “mark me as the man you desperately want me to be.”

He added the media “would rather perpetuate propaganda machines instead of researching information from a host of angles and perspectives.”

Here’s a response to Sandgren, in a language he might understand:

#Fakenews.

If Sandgren wants to blame anyone for ruining what should have been the best two weeks of his life, he needs to look in the mirror. It all began to unravel earlier this week when he was asked about some of the interactions that filled his Twitter page.

When you get into the “researching of information” about Sandgren, here are some of the receipts:

Sandgren has had numerous Twitter exchanges with several white nationalists, including Nicholas Fuentes, a well-known figure who has attended numerous white nationalist rallies, including the gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, in October. When Sandgren won his fourth-round match, Fuentes congratulated his “long-time mutual, supporter, and friend” via Twitter and offering, “We have the best athletes, folks.” Who is we?

He claimed in a 2012 tweet that, after stumbling into a gay club, “my eyes are still bleeding #nooneshouldseethat.”

Sandgren responded in 2016 to an email about Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory that linked Hillary Clinton to human trafficking, tweeting that “the collective evidence is too much to ignore.”

Some of his tweets were also connected to tennis.

After fans at the 2013 US Open booed American John Isner in his match against Frenchman Gael Monfils, Sandgren tweeted, “NYC doesn’t deserve the US Open. It needs to be moved south where we still have some pride in our country. #disgraceful.”

In a 2016 Twitter exchange with former American tennis player James Blake about race in America, Sandgren wrote, “I just don’t know how a country that practices systemic racism elected a black pres, twice.”

And he has a thing for Serena Williams. A 2013 tweet read, “Always a good day when Serena goes down” after her Australian Open loss to Sloane Stephens. Two years later, he labeled “disgusting” a link about Williams screaming a profanity after winning a point in the 2015 US Open.

That didn’t go unnoticed by Williams, who at the precise time of Sandgren’s quarterfinal match Wednesday gloriously tweeted these two words:

“Turns channel”

It’s doubtful that Williams was switching away from the latest episode of This Is Us.

Do any of these tweets make him a racist, a white nationalist or a member of the alt-right?

No.

But it does bring into question whom he supports, how he feels about the LGBTQ community and his views on far-fetched conspiracies.

In a climate where a black NFL quarterback falls under intense examination and can’t get a job because he took a knee to protest racial inequality in America, it’s fair for Sandgren to fall under that same microscope as Colin Kaepernick.

Sandgren’s tweets — and an internet search will reveal him covering a lot more topics than listed above — got in the way of what should have been the best story at the Australian Open.

A journeyman player with a unique first name, and with only two Grand Slam matches under his belt, wins four straight matches here, including two against top 10 opponents.

Here’s what happened to Sandgren: He never dreamed that he would make it to the second week of the Australian Open. When he pulled off the best four-match stretch of his life, he got caught off guard.

Sandgren’s tweets came to light to many in the mainstream media Monday, when he was asked about them during his postmatch news conference after upsetting No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem. I was at that media session and, hit with a twist to Sandgren’s story while on deadline in a different time zone, I wrote a story that never scratched the surface of Sandgren’s social media background.

I screwed up. I’ll own that.

Sandgren needs to own what he’s all about.

By Tuesday, Sandgren had deleted his tweets dating to the middle of 2017. By the start of his quarterfinal match, his entire Twitter history had been scrubbed clean.

Sandgren hasn’t proven to be anything but an emerging tennis player who has some interesting and unique interactions. If Sandgren really believes what he has tweeted and retweeted, he shouldn’t walk away from it.

Sandgren said the media seeks “to put people in these little boxes.” Yet he was the guy who attempted to box up his collection and tuck it away.

One beauty of social media is that people can demonstrate exactly who they are.

Another beauty of social media is that you can’t hide — and when you try, the public has the ability to package your beliefs in a neatly packaged archive.

Check social media and you’ll see that Sandgren has, indeed, been boxed.

I’d have better respect for Sandgren if he stood behind what he’s all about instead of running from his truth. What is he trying to hide?

You can support whatever moment you want through social media and tout any conspiracy theory that you believe in.

But be careful. When you go from obscure figure to success on an international stage in a little over a week, you’d better be able to handle the intense scrutiny that’s coming your way.

Sandgren handled it poorly on his last day at the Australian Open by reading off his phone about the controversy surrounding him, and by refusing to answer questions and stand by the person he is.

Maybe he’s a fly-by-night guy who’ll never be seen again.

Or maybe he’s a talented player who will make another deep run in a Grand Slam tournament.

A little advice to Sandgren: The next time you face the media, you’d better be ready to answer questions, rather than offering statements.

The questions will not go away.

We live in the divided states of America, and yet international sporting competitions mostly bring Americans together.

We may have international favorites whom we root for as individuals, but Americans typically rally around Americans.

Sadly, a lot of Americans on Wednesday were rooting against Sandgren. And, based on the tweet from Williams, that group might have included one of the greatest players in his sport.

Sandgren claims the media likes to “dehumanize with pen and paper and turn neighbor against neighbor.”

No media crimes committed here. Tennys Sandgren did that all by himself.

Jerry Bembry is a senior writer at The Undefeated. His bucket list items include being serenaded by Lizz Wright, and watching the Knicks play an NBA game in June.

https://theundefeated.com/features/tenn ... all-about/

[grzes430]

Tennys Sandgren: Scrutiny of my tweets 'far away from the tennis'

Spoiler:

MELBOURNE, Australia -- An hour after falling to Hyeon Chung in the Australian Open quarterfinals on Wednesday, Tennys Sandgren addressed the media with a prepared statement about the scrutiny some of his social media activity has recently received.

Sandgren read his statement quietly off his phone.

"You seek to put people in these little boxes so that you can order the world in your already assumed preconceived ideas," his statement read. "You strip away any individuality for the sake of demonizing by way of the collective.

"With a handful of follows and some likes on Twitter, my fate has been sealed in your minds. To write an edgy story, to create sensationalist coverage, there are a few lengths you wouldn't go to mark me as the man you desperately want me to be."

EDITOR'S PICKS

Federer moves into semifinals at Aussie Open
Roger Federer is through to the semifinals in Australia, where he will face Hyeon Chung, the first Korean to reach the semifinal of a Grand Slam event.


Kerber routs Keys, gets No. 1 Halep in semis
Angelique Kerber is through to the Australian Open semifinals after a commanding 6-1, 6-2 win over Madison Keys.

Ranked No. 97, Sandgren had become the Cinderella story of these Australian Open championships. He came into Melbourne with an 0-2 career record in Grand Slam play and had spent the majority of his time on tour playing in lower-level Challenger events.

On Monday, he upset world No. 5 Dominic Thiem in five sets, but the feel-good story quickly turned sour when he was asked about some of his Twitter posts, which appeared to link him to alt-right ideologies. Sandgren, 26, quickly dismissed any allegiance, telling the media that who he follows on Twitter doesn't matter and that the "information you see doesn't dictate what you think or believe."

Sandgren subsequently deleted years' worth of tweets for what he hoped would be a "clean start." When asked about his views Tuesday in an interview with ESPN, Sandgren said, "[It's] not really specific 'alt-right' content that I deem of value. I think that's very incorrect, and I don't find information like that to be of value or to hold on to any of those things."

On Wednesday, when pressed to respond to his opening statement, Sandgren appeared annoyed.

"This stopped being about tennis," he said. "I was fine talking about tennis. I'm fine talking about a lot of things. But, you know, I feel like this has gone very far away from the tennis."

Sandgren said he will continue to grow and become the person he wants to be, while also working hard to improve his tennis game.

"It's not easy to come off some big wins, biggest wins of my career, crazy stages, like quarterfinals of a Slam," Sandgren said. "That's crazy to me. And to deal with the stuff off the court as well."

http://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/2 ... a-activity

[grzes430]

05.02.2018

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 54

[Lleyton]

[Damian]

[Damian]

In other action, two months after Tennys Sandgren checked off a career milestone by reaching his maiden Grand Slam quarter-final in Melbourne, the American celebrated another landmark achievement by winning his first Masters 1000 match.

Sandgren, who was also making his Masters 1000 debut, advanced when Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili retired down 3-6, 1-2. The 26-year-old American improved to 6-5 on the season and will next meet 29thseed David Ferrer of Spain.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/de- ... 018-friday

[Damian]

Eighth-seeded American Tennys Sandgren earned his seventh tour-level win of the season (7-7) after winning just twice prior to this year, by defeating Blaz Kavcic 6-2, 6-2 in one hour, four minutes. Another American, Bjorn Fratangelo, was also impressive. The 24-year-old beat Australian Jordan Thompson 6-1, 6-1 in just over an hour to set a second-round match against fourth seed Nick Kyrgios.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/ver ... 018-monday

[DUN I LOVE]

Tennys is Tennis.

Amerykanin, po ćwiartce AO, tym razem osiągnął półfinał turnieju w Houston, pierwszy w karierze!

50 Jared Donaldson 977
51 Tennys Sandgren 973
52 Alex Dołgopołow 966

Top-50 tuż, tuż.

[Damian]

All-American Final Set In Houston

Spoiler:

First-time finalist Tennys Sandgren to face defending champ Steve Johnson on Sunday
For just the second time in the past 15 years, the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship will feature an all-American final. Tennessee native Tennys Sandgren will clash with California's Steve Johnson for the title, after both battled through tricky semi-final encounters on Saturday.
Johnson and Sandgren are slated to meet for the first time at the tour-level, marking the first championship clash in Houston between home hopefuls since 2015, when Jack Sock defeated Sam Querrey. That year, Sock lifted his maiden ATP World Tour trophy and Sandgren will look to do the same on Sunday.
The 26-year-old toppled Ivo Karlovic 7-6(2), 7-6(4) in one hour and 38 minutes, surviving an offensive onslaught from the big-hitting Croatian. Karlovic fired 35 winners and 10 aces in total, while claiming 83 per cent of first serve points, but the defensive-minded Sandgren grinded to victory on the red dirt.
"I didn't feel like I could get to the final this week. I was just trying to win a few matches," said Sandgren. "But I put myself in that position."
You May Also Like: Edmund Moves Into Maiden Final
In front of friends and family at the River Oaks Country Club, Sandgren surged into his first ATP World Tour final. What a difference a year makes. Exactly one year ago, the American qualified for his first tour-level main draw in Houston and now he is one step from lifting his first trophy. Projected to rise to a career-high inside the Top 50 of the ATP Rankings regardless of Sunday's outcome, the he is on a tear since progressing from the ATP Challenger Tour to open the season. A quarter-finalist at the Australian Open in January, he has carried the momentum into Houston and will look to become the third American winner of the year (Tiafoe in Delray Beach; Isner in Miami).
Few players can say they have rallied from a break down against Karlovic and his imposing serve, but Sandgren did just that to take the opener. A sublime lob snatched the break back and he would take the first set on an unreturned serve. Sandgren would once again escape the Croatian's grasp in the second set, forcing another tie-break after sliding into a full split to fire a cross-court pass at 5-6. And he would grab the initiative with the set - and match - on the line, emerging victorious after more than an hour and a half.
"I feel like I'm better at engaging myself when things don't go right," Sandgren added. "I don't have a lot of experience at this stage and against [Karlovic's serve], you just guess. You can only take a stab at it and guess. I tried to read where he liked to go. And the second set was difficult. I double faulted three times in a row to get broken back. The wind was swirling and he likes to run around and hit big forehands. One double fault became two and then it was three."

In Saturday's second semi-final, Steve Johnson overcame a stern test from #NextGenATP star Taylor Fritz to move into his second straight final in the Texas metropolis. The defending champion advanced 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-2 in two hours and 22 minutes, converting four of 15 break chances.
Johnson is seeking to become the first player to go back-to-back in Houston since Andy Roddick in 2001-02, when the tournament first moved to River Oaks Country Club. It will be his fourth ATP World Tour title match, having finished runner-up in Vienna in 2015, followed by victories on the grass of Nottingham and clay here last year.
"I'm happy to be back in the final," said Johnson. "This court has a lot of special memories for me. I'm happy to be in another final and get a title tomorrow. It was windy and gusty today and the shadows were moving in. I was able to find the break early in the third and that made the big difference."
With two match points while returning at 6-5 15/40 in the second set, Johnson was on the verge of shutting the door in straights. But his 20-year-old counterpart would not go down quietly, fighting to force a tie-break and eventually a decider. Momentum was squarely on Fritz's shoulders, but Johnson's experience saw him across the finish line, grabbing a pair of breaks in the third set to return to the championship match.
Following the match, Johnson was presented with the tournament's sportsmanship award. The Langston Trophy is annually awarded to the player(s) who demonstrate great sportsmanship during the competition. This year’s award goes to a group of players -- Johnson, John Isner, Sam Querrey, Frances Tiafoe and Bob & Mike Bryan -- who participated in kids clinics at Sunnyside Park this week after donating money to support the resurfacing of the park’s courts following Hurricane Harvey.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/hou ... n-sandgren

[Damian]

16.04.2018

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 47

[Barty]

Houston 2018: pierwszy finał ATP.

Tennys Sandgren - przegrane finały (1):
2018 (1) Houston