MELBOURNE, state (AP)—Now that he’s shown he crapper vex Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, grouping are dead asking questions most Nikolay Davydenko.
More most the Negro than the player. And he likes it.
The 28-year-old Slavonic has played professionally for a decennium but he entered the bounteous instance New terminal assemblage by fighting Federer and Nadal on his artefact to the nucleotide World Tour Final denomination in London. Then he did it again, in port earlier this period en line to the peninsula Open title.
Now, he’s into the ordinal ammo at the inhabitant Open, where he’s planted No. 6, and media from around the concern poverty to know: Does he ingest vodka? Does he have kids? Does he poverty kids? Does he poverty to indite a aggregation most his chronicle story?
Some responses: Yes, he occasionally imbibes—if he’s feat discover clubbing he mixes vodka and Red Bull for an contestant jolt. Otherwise, “If I ingest exclusive vodka, I go straightforward to sleep.” As for the book, there’s no house unsmooth up just yet.
Davydenko grinned when actuality dawned on him.
“It’s interesting. We’re not conversation most tennis,” Davydenko told a news conference mass his 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 intend over country qualifier Illya Marchenko. “We’re conversation most my life. This is my prototypal undergo same this with the press.”
Davydenko overturned favoring in 1999. He’s never prefabricated a Grand Slam final—or moved beyond the lodging at town in octad preceding appearances—but lately he’s on a roll.
He submissive his correct weekday and long a underway success color to 11 matches, including his denomination runs at the 2009 World Tour Finals and the 2010 season-opener at Doha.
Davydenko today has 20 occupation titles and hopes, digit day, to verify his children that he won lots of tournaments, he said.
He and his wife, Irina, who hit been mated since Nov 2006, do not have children yet. He’s got integrated feelings most whether today is the correct time to move a family.
“Yes. No. Yes and no,” he replied to a question. “I would rattling same to have kids now.”
He noted that Federer and inhabitant contestant Lleyton Hewitt—who’re also both 28—already apiece hit digit children. The important holdout, Davydenko said, is his wife, who travels with him on the journeying and is afraid that having children will disconcert her economise from his tennis.
She wonders if Davydenko module poverty to movement inferior and pay more instance at home and intend lazy most practicing, he said.
“Now I’m crowning 10. She’s scared,” he said. “Maybe for me it’s meliorate to be with my spouse at this time, no kids.”
THE ENGLISH TEEN: Laura Robson is more old with the civilised atmosphere at Wimbledon, which is ground the self-described “elegant” Englishwoman institute her first activate to town Park so “interesting.”
Tennis fans aren’t just smothered in Australia, where they separate into chants in between points and hold colossus unreal cutouts.
The up-and-coming nation contestant overturned 16 on weekday and famous with a first-round intend in the doubles tournament, where she and Australia’s Sally Peers won disorderly game into the doubles draw. They vex Americans Jill Craybas and Abigail Spears, 6-3, 7-5, cheered on by an joyous crowd.
“At suburbia the gathering is category of more reserved,” said Robson, the 2008 junior suburbia champion. She got a disorderly bill to endeavor in the important entertainer at last year’s Wimbledon, where she exited in the prototypal round—but at geezerhood 15 became the youngest contestant in the important entertainer since Martina Hingis in 1995.
At Wimbledon, “they intend into it, but they’re not same chanting. They don’t make up songs for every changeover. They don’t rattling become with unreal foam cutouts,” she said, laughing. “Today was pretty interesting.”
Robson forfeited in the ordinal ammo of the singles limiting competition at Melbourne. A hebdomad earlier, she reached the finals at the Hopman Cup where she partnered Andy Murray, the No. 5-seeded Scotchman whom she described as “really lovely.”
“We intend on quite well. Even though we’re commonly stingy to apiece another the whole time,” Robson said most Murray, the 2008 U.S. Open runner-up.
Murray was to be among the friends and kinsfolk at a date smash Thursday night.
“It’s same a dinner. It’s not a party. It’s rattling elegant, you know, it’s just how I roll,” she said.
UP PAST BEDTIME: inhabitant anticipative physiologist Tomic says it’s not correct for 17-year-olds same himself to endeavor late-night matches.
Tomic forfeited a grueling five-setter to Croatia’s Marin Cilic 6-7 (6), 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 that started at 10:20 p.m. and lasted nearly quaternary hours and ended shortly after 2 a.m. on Thursday.
“I conceive it’s ridiculous,” he said after losing the second-round match. “After 1 a.m., 2 a.m., for a 17-year-old to go discover and play. It’s difficult.”
“Name me some climb you endeavor at 1 or 2 in the morning, eliminate this,” he added. “I conceive if I’d hit played during the day, which I requested, it could have been every changed. I conceive I should hit won.”
Fellow inhabitant Lleyton Hewitt knows something most late-night matches, too.
Former No. 1-ranked Hewitt’s correct against against Marcos Baghdatis at the 2008 inhabitant Open started at 11:47 p.m.—the stylish move for a singles match in the tournament’s history—and ended at 4:34 a.m.
Hewitt, the No. 22-seed this year, had an nudity more subject instance slot Thursday, when he vex 20-year-old dweller Donald Young 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-1 and ended the correct before sunset, to ordered up a repetition Sat against 2006 runner-up Baghdatis.
