tennis4you
12-28-2000, 07:52 PM
It maybe a good I dea for Mark, but I found it kind of funny none the less... This story is from ESPN...
Does anyone think that with some more focus on tennis Mark Philippoussis will ever win a slam?
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Coach wants Aussie to hold off on car purchases
SYDNEY, Australia -- Coach Peter McNamara has banned his star pupil, Australian Mark Philippoussis, from buying any more sports cars until he wins a Grand Slam, a newspaper reported.
Philippoussis, 24, became an Australian hero in their Davis Cup final victory in France in 1999 but he has been unavailable for other ties including the final earlier this month in Barcelona against Spain.
Despite enormous promise, the world No. 11 failed to break through to win a major, reaching the 1998 U.S. Open final which he lost to countryman Patrick Rafter.
"Cars are out. No more cars," McNamara said on Thursday in The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"He's not allowed to buy a car unless he wins a Grand Slam -- that's the deal we have. It hasn't stopped him buying motorbikes. I think we'll have to put the deal on motorbikes as well."
The newspaper said Philippoussis had already sold most of his stable of almost 20 sports cars, including several Ferraris
Does anyone think that with some more focus on tennis Mark Philippoussis will ever win a slam?
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Coach wants Aussie to hold off on car purchases
SYDNEY, Australia -- Coach Peter McNamara has banned his star pupil, Australian Mark Philippoussis, from buying any more sports cars until he wins a Grand Slam, a newspaper reported.
Philippoussis, 24, became an Australian hero in their Davis Cup final victory in France in 1999 but he has been unavailable for other ties including the final earlier this month in Barcelona against Spain.
Despite enormous promise, the world No. 11 failed to break through to win a major, reaching the 1998 U.S. Open final which he lost to countryman Patrick Rafter.
"Cars are out. No more cars," McNamara said on Thursday in The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"He's not allowed to buy a car unless he wins a Grand Slam -- that's the deal we have. It hasn't stopped him buying motorbikes. I think we'll have to put the deal on motorbikes as well."
The newspaper said Philippoussis had already sold most of his stable of almost 20 sports cars, including several Ferraris