Reiko Shiota pics 2011

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Rafael Nadal Biography And Pictures 2011

Rafael Nadal (born June 3, 1986, Manacor, Mallorca, Spain) Spanish tennis player who emerged in the early 21st century as one of the game's leading competitors, especially noted for his performance on clay. From 2005 to 2008 he won four consecutive French Open championships.

Nadal grew up in a sports-minded family; his uncle Miguel Angel Nadal was a professional association football (soccer) player who competed in the 2002 World Cup. Rafael began playing tennis at age four, guided by another uncle, Toni Nadal, who remained his coach on the professional tour. In his early years, Nadal (who wrote with his right hand) played left-handed tennis with both a two-handed forehand and backhand. When he was 12, however, his uncle encouraged him to adopt a more conventional left-handed style. Nadal stuck with his two-handed backhand but switched to what became his signature one-handed forehand, the stroke that was credited with lifting him into the sport's upper echelons.

Nadal, who officially turned professional in 2001, had appeared in only one grand slam tournament as a junior competitor when he reached the semifinals at the 2002 Wimbledon championships. He began his professional career in earnest the next year, breaking into the top 50 in the world. In 2004 he played a crucial role in Spain's defeat of the United States in the Davis Cup final. Toppling Andy Roddick—then number two in the world—in a four-set opening-day singles clash, Nadal became the youngest player (at 18 years 6 months) in the history of the international team competition to win a singles match for a victorious country.

Driving his forehand with a devastatingly potent heavy topspin and covering the court with alacrity, Nadal quickly became one of the top players on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour. He also developed a rivalry with world number one Roger Federer. In 2005 Nadal set a record for a teenage male player by registering 11 tournament victories, including a triumph at his French Open (Roland Garros) debut, when he upset Federer in the semifinals. The next year, Nadal secured five more titles on the ATP tour, including his second straight French Open win—this time besting Federer in the final. He also reached his first final on the grass at Wimbledon before falling to Federer.

In 2007 Nadal extended his victories on clay surfaces to a record 81 consecutive matches before losing to Federer on May 20 in the final of the ATP Masters Series Hamburg (Ger.). After bouncing back to win his third title at Roland Garros, Nadal lost to Federer in a grueling five-set Wimbledon final lasting 3 hours 45 minutes. The two met once again in the 2008 French Open final, where Nadal overpowered Federer to win his fourth straight tournament title, tying Björn Borg's record for consecutive French Open wins. Nadal and Federer met in a third consecutive Wimbledon final in 2008. This time Nadal won his fifth career grand slam title—in a five-set match lasting 4 hours 48 minutes, the longest men's singles final in Wimbledon history—and thus became the first man since Borg (1980) to collect both the French Open and the Wimbledon title in the same year. In August 2008 Nadal won the men's singles gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing, and he took over the number one world ranking from Federer in the same month. In 2009 he won his first Australian Open championship after he again bested Federer in a dramatic five-set final match. He set a record for consecutive wins at the French Open the following May, which was then broken at 31 when Nadal was upset in the fourth round of the tournament. At the end of the 2009 tennis season, Nadal helped Spain sweep the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup final.

 Rafael Nadal

 Rafael Nadal

 Rafael Nadal

 Rafael Nadal

 Rafael Nadal

 Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal

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Daniela Dodean Table Tennis player

Daniela Dodean of Romania ... a woman who's in the ascendancy in the table tennis world rankings ... and attracting lots of attention.
Born on 13 January 1988, 22 year old Daniela is currently ranked at number 29 in the women's world ranking list.

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Yotsumoto Naomi - Sweet Table Tennis Player

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Zhang Yining of China number 1 female table tennis player in the world uses tenergy 05 fh 64 bh

Zhang Yining of China is a shake hands grip player ranked number 1 for women in the world. She was born October 5, 1982 (1982-10-05) (age 27) in Beijing, China.

Zhang uses tenergy 05 for forehand and tenergy 64 for her backhand. Everyone says that tenergy 64 is made for playing away from the table - Zhang Yining doesn't move back an inch.  Butterfly should have called Tenergy "zhang yining rubber" because she has been the number one player in the world for possibly the longest in modern table tennis and has been using tenergy since it came out.

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Timo Boll is the best table tennis player in the world 2011

   I have probably posted this elsewhere but I feel as the spirit of the time warrants this and I believe that timo Boll has achieved the highest he we will ever achieve in his lifetime,  a tribute to the current kind of table tennis is worth it.  We have right now January 2011 a non Chinese table tennis player as the best in the world.  Oh yes the idiots out there will find a million excuses for why the Chinese are not in this position.  But I say a simple shut your mouth, he also had to deal with the same system, he also had injury, he also had his problems, he was always considered the nicest sportsman.

He deserves a salute even though I'm not into that kind of military cr(p.  Somebody shut the Chinese up, just as the Singapore ladies did to the Chinese last year.  That as hard as it looks to beat the goliath population of players, the love of the sport and true hard work you can be the best in the world.

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Best golf player 2011

   
  BUBBA WATSON      

Bubba Watson secured his second PGA Tour title of 2011 after beating Webb Simpson in a play-off at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Simpson had led by three shots with seven to play but suffered a penalty stroke at 15 when his ball moved as he went to tap in for par. Both players parred the last 3 holes meaning they each signed for 69s to finish two shots clear of the field at 15 under par. They played the 18th again as the first extra hole, tying with birdies, then it was Watson's birdie when they played the hole again that secured the title. Watson moves up to World Number 10 and becomes the 79th player in the history of the Ranking to achieve Top 10 status.

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World's Top Five Table Tennis Players

World No 1. Wang Hao

No 2. Ma Long

No 3. Ma Lin

No 4 Timo Boll

No 5 Wang Liquin

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