| Switzerland's former world number one Martina Hingis said her renewed hunger for competition inspired her forthcoming comeback in doubles but she has no plans to return in singles. Hingis is teaming up with Slovak Daniela Hantuchova at this week's Southern California Open with the pair slated to play an evening match on Wednesday against Julia Goerges of Germany and Darija Jurak of Croatia. Hingis, who was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of fame just two weeks ago, has not played a WTA-level match since 2007. She and Hantuchova are also intending to compete at Toronto, Cincinnati and the U.S. Open but have not made any plans beyond that. "If it's a complete disaster, I would not want to continue, but I hope that's not the case," Hingis told reporters. "I don't have any expectations, but I wouldn't put myself in this position if I didn't feel that I couldn't compete at this level. "In (world) Team Tennis I was good enough, but is it good enough to be able to compete at this level? We'll see." Hingis retired in 2002 with five Grand Slam singles titles to her credit only to launch a full-scale comeback in 2006. She called it quits for the second time in 2007, but said she always had it in the back of her mind that she might return again. She barely picked up a racket from 2008-2011, but has played a lot of exhibitions and senior doubles during the past two years and has also coached, mostly notably world number 25 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia, whom she stopped coaching after this year's French Open. However, even though she would not completely rule it out, Hingis said she has no plans to return in singles again. "Not at this point," she said. "You have to put so much effort into it. Playing tournaments is the easy part, but it's all the behind the scenes training that people don't see, the six to eight hours of training and really the older you get, the harder it gets. "I wouldn't want to come out and play one or two matches and lose in the third round. That's not my type of personality." While Hingis feels that top level singles play may be beyond her, she does not feel that way about doubles. There are three players in the WTA doubles world top 20 who are older than she is - Lisa Raymond, Kveta Peschke and Liezel Huber - and a handful of others just slightly younger than her. "It's different as when we used to play there were so many more singles girls who played doubles: the (Williams) sisters, me Anna (Kournikova) and Lindsay (Davenport)," she said. "There were like six to eight of the top 10 who played doubles. Now it's just a few girls in the top 10 who play doubles. There is much more of an opening now." |
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Hingis rules out playing singles despite doubles return - Adv3nturTrav3l
Launcher - Responsive Flat E-mail Template (Email Templates) - Adv3nturTrav3l
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Monday, July 29, 2013
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Auto Tweets Generator – From Leavy Description Auto Tweets Generator is a Wordpress plugin that use a custom tweets sheet to generate a publishing sheet compatible with the well known Social Media Management Dashboard HootSuite it gives you multiple publishing possibilities with simple and efficient design and easy to use interface.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Twitter Feed - for iOS (iOS) - Adv3nturTrav3l
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Wordpress Variable Trapper Plugin (Utilities) - Adv3nturTrav3l
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
(28-07-2013) Friends of Ham: restaurant review - Adv3nturTrav3l
Friends of Ham: restaurant review Jul 28th 2013, 06:30
4 New Station Street, Leeds (0113 242 0275). Meal for two: £30-50
A late night in Leeds and I am in a basement room with a slice of Prosciutto di Parma ham dangling off the ball of my hand, held in a fist. A fellow food writer has explained that he was told to do this by Ferran Adrià, the überchef famed for the modernist food he once served at El Bulli. "You wait until you can no longer feel the temperature difference between the ham and your hand," he says. "Then you know it's at the perfect temperature." I wait. Quickly the ham is warmed by my soft, soft skin, a dividend from never having done a proper day's work in my life. I lick the slippery fold of cured pig off. Gosh. Adrià's right. It has a deep, ripe sweet flavour that just goes on and on. I slap another bit of ham on my now pig-fat-slicked hand, dead flesh on live skin.
You might assume from this that I was less than sober. You would be right. I was deep down in the bottom of a glass and floating right back to the top again. This does not invalidate the experiment. And anyway, it came with the territory. I was in a fabulous bar called Friends of Ham and having been one for a long time – I think calling me and ham mere friends is to understate the depth and maturity of our relationship – it seemed only right to show the product a bit of serious love.
Is it valid to review this sort of place in a restaurant column? After all, they don't actually cook anything. All they do is buy stuff and sell it on. Ah yes, but they buy really good stuff and they sell it on very well indeed. I would choose Friends of Ham over any number of bona fide Leeds restaurants. What's more, I did. It occupies one of the units in the dark, narrow approach to the city's station, a road usually only used when you are either trying to leave town or locate someone to mug. At ground level is a self-consciously narrow bar. Chatter rises and falls. Downstairs is a larger, floorboarded room with central communal tables and smaller seating spaces around the outside. The ceiling is low. The wallpaper is of filled bookshelves, spine out, which saves on buying the real thing.
To eat, there are hefty wooden boards of charcuterie, cheese and bread with crunchy pickles on the side. Both the food and drink choices run from the obvious to the less so, and come with tasting notes. So there is a full platter of premium jamón Ibérico at £17.50 – with "an unmatched depth of flavour" – as well as cheaper options like the Parma I licked off my hand, or a serrano, for £6 a serving. There is salami flecked with fennel seed, a coarse cut, oily chorizo, and some glorious lardo – "a savoury buttery taste" – the salty cured back fat of the fattest pigs.
A charcuterie platter at Friends of Ham, Leeds. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Observer Some of these come from mainstream suppliers such as Brindisa, others from the kitchen of a nearby restaurant called the Reliance, which cures its own meats. What matters is that it is both stored and sliced well. The cheese list runs through a bit of Brie de Meaux and Keen's Cheddar to Harrogate Blue and Yellison's Goat from nearby Skipton. There is olive oil-dribbled bread or crackers with which to eat this and little pots of fiery sweet jelly to smear across it. Cutlery is optional.
The ever-rotating beer list is of the serious sort that more manly men than me would frown and nod over, with choices from Oregon and the Sierra Nevada in the US, through Belgium and Sweden to the glorious exotica of Stockport. I taste chocolate stouts, and wheat beers with a salty edge and softer lighter ales that feel as if they were brewed with me in mind.
Some of the staff have beards but, like me, they wear them lightly. They are eager to give tasters wherever possible. There is a short, well-priced wine list, but even I would acknowledge it's not the point of coming here. You come to wear paper-thin slices of ham like a glove and behave like it's a reasonable thing to do. Because it is.
Email Jay at jay.rayner@observer.co.uk. Follow Jay on Twitter @jayrayner1