Czech number one Tomas Berdych has been drawn against Serbian number two Viktor Troicki. The match in the opening rubber of their Davis Cup World Group quarter-final starting here on Friday. Berdych, ranked seventh, holds a 2-1 record against 27th-ranked Troicki but it will be the first time the pair have met on clay. Radek Stepanek will then take on Janko Tipsarevic, ranked eighth, in the 02 Arena, before the doubles teams of Frantisek Cermak and Lukas Rosol for the Czechs and Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac for the Serbs go head-to-head on Saturday. Tipsarevic has a 2-1 career record against Stepanek but the Czech player won their only previous meeting on clay in Barcelona three years ago. The teams are 5-5 in previous meetings, with Serbia winning their last confrontation in the 2010 semi-finals before going on to lift the title. The winners will meet either Argentina or Croatia in September s semi-finals.
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Friday 6 April 2012
Speed of thought "Lionel Messi"
For many years Maradona was one half of the great debate as to who was the best ever player: him or Brazilian Pele. But with Messi’s recent record-breaking exploits, many consider him to be a legitimate contender for that theoretic title. And while Maradona has never been shy in publicising his own claims over Pele’s, he is less willing to blow his own trumpet when compared to his Argentine compatriot. “The (best player) lists make me laugh but there is one ability, most of all one, that no one has ever had like Leo and myself: speed of thought,” Maradona told Saturday’s Gazzetta dello Sport. “When I coached him the thing I saw in him that reminded me of myself was the lightning understanding of how the move would develop. “It’s an innate quality worthy of a computer. Had we been able to communicate with someone who thought at the same speed we could have both given even more.” Looking just at today’s players, Maradona says Messi is in a leaue of his own but he has a surprise in his top three. “My rankings would be Messi, (Cristiano) Ronaldo and then Ibra (Zlatan Ibrahimovic) and (Wayne) Rooney together and (Sergio) Kun Aguero is in the top 10 but he’s rising.” Maradona also turned his attentions to his problems with the Italian taxman, repeating his oft stated claim that he does not owe the 38 million euros being claimed. And Maradona insists he’s been treated unfairly. “I’m not a tax evader, I hate tax-evaders and so I’m twice as bitter about this situation,” he said. “I have a decision from 1994 that says I don’t owe anything but I don’t understand why the cards changed on the table. “The thing I want to know is why am I the only one persecuted. “Ferlaino, who signed the contracts with me, lives calmly in Naples, my ex-agent Coppola, who prepared them, comes and goes to Italy without any problems. “And yet every time I put my feet down (in Italy) I’m subjected to the humiliation of being stripped of watches and earrings.” Customs officers have been ordered to seize anything of value from Maradona when he comes to Italy to help pay off his debt.
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