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After finally taking home the Wimbledon title last year, will Andy Murray be able to defend it? (Steve Bardens/Getty Images)
How well and how quickly can the games best transition from clay to grass? With Wimbledon set to begin on June 23, we take stock of the men and women who made the quarterfinals or better at the French Open to determine which players to buy, sell and hold.
Rafael Nadal: Sell. The French Open champion crashed out of the Gerry Weber Open to No. 85Dustin Brown in his opening round, which was no surprise or cause for panic after the quick turnaround from Roland Garros. But the 28-year-old Spaniard has now lost his last three matches on grass dating to his stunning second-round defeat to Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon in 2012. Nadal could win Wimbledon for the third time I wouldnt bet against it but so much of it is draw dependent.Given his vulnerability in the early rounds, Ideither hold him for the short term or sell him for the long term. Its just a matter of time before he relinquishes the No. 1 ranking to Novak Djokovic, and he has winners points to defend at Canada, Cincinnati and the U.S. Open over the summer.
Maria Sharapova: Hold. Because she won her maiden Grand Slam title at 17 by beating Serena Williams on the Wimbledon grass, its easy to fall into the trap of thinking that Sharapova is a force on faster surfaces. But since that victory, in 2004, shes reached only one Wimbledon final, losing to Petra Kvitova in 2011. In fact, shes advanced past the fourth round just once since 2006. Her serve is no longer a weapon on grass in fact, its a liability and Im inclined to sell her now and reassess after the U.S. Open, where, again, she hasnt made a final since she won it in 2006.That said, she has just one match win to defend for the rest of the season, and she lost in the second round of Wimbledon last year. So if youre looking to capitalize on a rankings jump,hold for the rest of the season.
Novak Djokovic: Buy. The Serb rebounded well after his disappointing loss to Nadal in the French Open semifinals last year, making the Wimbledon final and losing to Andy Murray. I expect him to do the same this year. His defending is impeccable on grass, and if not for that draining five-set win over Juan Martin del Potro in the semifinals last year, who knows what would have happened in the final? Djokovic, 27, feels due for a Slam win, having falling short in the last five.
Simona Halep: Hold. Halep has no Wimbledon results to speak of: Shes never even advanced to the third round in three attempts. But she had never surpassed the second round of Roland Garros before this year either, when she coasted to the final. The new No. 3 has won a title on grass (last year in Rosmalen, the Netherlands), and her high seeding could give her some cushion against easier opposition through the early rounds. But her serve is attackable, and if she pulls a nightmare draw against a zoning offensive-minded player, she could lose early.
Andy Murray: Hold. Its hard to know how Murray will handle the pressure of defending his Wimbledon title. Add to that the potential distraction of having to answer question after question about new coach Amelie Mauresmo. After his run to the semifinals of the French Open, Im assuming that his price is pretty high, so Id hold him and see how it turns out. Looking more long term, Murray is definitely a buy. Sure, he has a massive amount of points to defend at Wimbledon, but he didnt do much after winning the title last year. The rest of the season is a big opportunity for him to pick up points.
Eugenie Bouchard: Hold. The 12th-ranked Bouchard is the only woman to make the semifinals of both majors this year, and shes not allergic to grass. She won the junior Wimbledon title only two years ago, and her first significant Slam success came last year at the All England Club, where she knocked out Ana Ivanovic in the secondround. In many ways, the 20-year-old Bouchard is still an unknown quantity. We simply dont have a complete data set on a player who is in her second full year on tour. But Bouchard has shown she can handle the big occasion well, and shell benefit from a higherseeding.
Ernests Gulbis: Buy. Im going out on a limb here. Gulbis is a high-risk buy given his lack of success on grass he lost to Kenny De Schepperin his opening round of Queens this week and his loopy forehand should, theoretically, be a disaster on the surface. All that is balanced against his booming serve, deft touch and the fact that hes a completely different player now compared to the one in years past. If he receives a good draw, he could be this years Jerzy Janowicz. In the long term, hes in good position to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals, sitting at No. 7 in the Race to London standings. Hes on the rise.
Andrea Petkovic: Sell. Petkovic would tell you herself to sell. Grass is her least favorite surface by far, though she did play better last year, when she lost to Sloane Stephens 8-6 in the third set of the Wimbledon second round. Still, considering her high value coming out of the French Open, where she made her first major semifinal, it would be best to take the profit now and reassess midsummer.
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2014 Wimbledon: Buy/Sell/Hold
Novak Djokovic won Wimbledon in 2011, made the semis in 12 and lost the final in 13. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
Rafael Nadal may be the No. 1 player in the world, but that doesnt mean hell be the No. 1 seed at Wimbledon.
The All England Club doesnt merely adhere to the ATP Tour rankings to determine the 32 seeds. Instead, Wimbledon uses a formula which is applied only for the men that rewards players for their grass-court achievements. Simon Cambers of The Tennis Space has crunched the numbers to conclude the following for this years tournament: Novak Djokovic, who is ranked No. 2, will be the top seed.
Here is how the top five seeds shape up, according to Chambers:
1. Novak Djokovic (ATP ranking: 2) 2. Rafael Nadal (1) 3. Andy Murray (5) 4. Roger Federer (4) 5. Stan Wawrinka (3)
The All England Clubs seeding formula takes a players ATP ranking as of June 16 (the week before Wimbledon), adds all points earned on grass in the previous 12 months and includes 75 percent of points earned from his best grass-court event in the 12 months before that. (The Tennis Space uses ATP rankings as of June 9 and notes that this weeks results at grass-court tune-ups wont alter the projected seedings.)
This system explains Murrays anticipated bump from No. 5 in the ATP rankings to No. 3 seed at the third major of the year: He won Wimbledon and Queens Club last season and made the Wimbledon final in 2012. A No. 3 seed is significant for Murray, who wont have to face a top four player in the quarterfinals.
Wimbledon plans to announce the seeds next Wednesday. The tournament starts on June 23.
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Second-ranked Novak Djokovic was made top seed at next weeks Wimbledon tennis championships, while world No. 1 Rafael Nadal was relegated to second.
Spains Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic of Serbia in the final, wont be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years.
Five-time champion Serena Williams is the womens top seed, ahead of Australian Open champion Li Na of China and Romanias Simona Halep. Polands Agnieszka Radwanska, a former Wimbledon finalist, was seeded fourth.
Wimbledon has its own formula for seeding players, unlike the other three majors, which follow the rankings of the mens ATP World Tour and womens WTA tour. The mens seeds are based on the ATP rankings plus performance on faster grass courts over the past two years. The womens seeding order usually follows the WTA rankings unless organizers need to make a change to balance the draw.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Nadal, 28, last won a match at the tournament in the first round in 2013, before he was upset by Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic. Nadal, a 14-time major champion, lost in the first round last year to Belgiums Steve Darcis.
Rafael Nadal returns a shot during his men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic on day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, on June 8. Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic of Serbia in the final, wont be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years. Close
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Rafael Nadal returns a shot during his men's singles final match against Novak Djokovic on day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris, on June 8. Nadal, who won a record ninth French Open title earlier this month by beating Djokovic of Serbia in the final, wont be top seed at the All England Club because of his record on grass over the past two years.
After winning an unprecedented fifth straight Roland Garros championship on June 8, Nadal went to Halle, Germany, to start his grass-court campaign, only to lose his opening round in straight sets to 78th-ranked Dustin Brown of Germany.
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It might be 90-degrees right now, but some in Warrick County are still feeling the effects of the cold. The Tri-State experienced an exceptionally long and cold winter which is causing some problems now on athletic fields. In just six weeks football players will hit the fields again. And the Warrick County School Corporation's maintenance staff certainly has their work cut out for them. One thing they won't have to worry about is cutting the grass because, well, there's not much to cut. "All of our athletic fields that have Bermuda Grass sustained some damage due to the long cold winter" Warrick County Superintendent Brad Schneider says it will cost about $30,000 to resprig six athletic fields. While some maintenance is needed after each winter, this year will take a little extra work to get the fields ready in time. "We still feel very confident that when August rolls around and when football season starts we're going to have a nice stand of grass. Our athletic fields whether it be soccer or football are going to be in excellent shape," said Superintendent Schneider.
The corporation considered laying down sod instead of spriging, but grass experts told leaders that was no longer a viable option. "Just as the golf courses and athletic facilities that have Bermuda Grass were damaged this winter so were the sod fields," said Superintendent Schneider. Other neighboring counties have switched from grass to turf fields. Superintendent Schneider says they've considered that before, but is confident sticking with traditional grass is the right thing to do. "We feel confident that right now that Bermuda and the real grass is a little bit cheaper in the long run and I think our kids prefer playing on real grass." Bennett Field may be 80% brown at the moment, but Bermuda Grass grows very quickly. It could be green and lush within the next six weeks. All it needs is heat and humidity.
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The Master Wishmakers create luxury, bespoke playhouses and even private islands for clients Range in price from 25,000 to over 50,000 Some have slides, pubs, garages and fake helicopters
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Published: 02:59 EST, 11 June 2014 | Updated: 05:29 EST, 11 June 2014
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Ever dreamed of creating a princess palace or a mini fantasy island for your child, but don't have the time or imagination to build it from scratch?
Now one company is available to come to your rescue, ready to create luxury turreted tree houses, fairy tale woodland castles, magical playhouses, English country garden gazebos and even private islands.
The British company, called The Master Wishmakers, promise that they can custom-design bespoke interpretations of clients aspirations for their loved ones, however farfetched or fantastical.
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Looking for a dog?
The Grand Strand Humane Society, one of many area shelters experiencing overcrowding, is holding two dog adoption events Wednesday and Thursday at the Market Common.
The adoption events will take place alongside Music On The Streets concerts in the retail area of the former Myrtle Beach Air Force base.
Wednesday nights concert is in the gazebos off Howard Avenue and Reed Street. Thursdays concert and adoption will be at Valor Park. Dogs will be available for adoption from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. both days.
We must get 70 to 75 animals adopted into loving homes very quickly, said Sandy Brown, executive director of the Grand Strand Humane Society. Our mission is always to save and find permanent homes for animals in need, but now it is a dire emergency. We will be downsizing our shelter population based on our budget.
We must find permanent homes for the animals already in our care to create space for other animals in the near future. We do not want future unwanted, abandoned and abused animals to go to a kill shelter.
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Grand Strand Humane Society holding dog adoption events at the Market Common in Myrtle Beach
Premium television's answer to wedding season Games of Thrones is no doubt only popular because of its breathtaking cavalcade of aspirational lifestyle inspiration. Each wedding ceremony in the show seems to be more special and loving than the last, causing its audience to wonder: But how do I get myself one of those? Well! A wedding planner has evaluated each ceremony with ahelpfulline-item analysis.
Sarah Haywood, noted authority on multimillion-dollar weddings," worked with the Daily Dot to thoroughly analyze each ceremony.
Would you like some dancing bears? Only $11,300 each, including insurance and handling! Insurance to back aDothraki wedding, where at least three people are expected to die from having too much fun? $323,559. Flowers to decorate your never-ending gazebos? Half a million. A meal including a stuffed peacock? That's $1,800 per person. A necklace with rare poison? Unsettlingly cheap, at $20. Funds to murder 30,000 of your favorite enemies?$5.6 million.
The whole graph and analysis--from Max Fleishman andRob Price,with references including the British Royal Wedding of 2011 and the Kardashian-West ceremony--is worthpursuinghere. Just print out your favorite one, and you've got your budget all ready to go.
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Next it was back to Tylney, for an idyllic picnic lunch in the pair of restored Italianate gazebos, with Pimms in hand and views over the park and boating lakes. This was a leap backwards in time, from Edwardian garden glory days to the 18th century and a small country mansion, West Green House. Its garden has an equally fractured history, having been saved from ruin by garden magician Marylyn Abbott after an IRA bomb blast. I visited this garden three years ago to report on the garden opera season, and on returning I was amazed to see further development Abbott clearly isnt one to let the grass grow beneath her feet.
The Quinlan Terry follies, the light installations and the potager are now all surrounded with a new streamlined bosky walk, taking you off to pastures new with ribbons of blue Iris sibirica and ferny glades. It was Schultz who connected the various gardens within the grounds he was commissioned to make alterations to the faade of the house, and to redesign the grounds in the early 1900s and each of these gardens has its own story to tell, its own journey from glory to dereliction and back.
Such journeys, and how garden owners decide to travel along them, were examined by Dominic Cole, chairman of the National Trusts Advisory Panel and the Garden History Society, in the talk he gave us over a glass of champagne back at Tylney Hall. As a landscape architect he has developed the Eden Project and Heligan with Tim Smit; designed the grounds at Lowther Castle, the Horniman Museum and Magdalen College; worked on Trentham with Piet Oudolf and Tom Stuart-Smith, and had a hand in one of my favourite spots in London the Roof Garden on Queen Elizabeth Hall.
He has also created gardens from almost everything, including china clay craters, chicken sheds, Christmas tree plantations and local authority tenure.
Dominic believes that although these days we have labour-saving machinery, this cannot compensate entirely for the dramatic decrease in manpower (the Tylney workforce, for instance, has gone from 50 to five). So we need to be pragmatic in our restorations, aiming to capture the spirit of the past rather than recreate its every detail. The discussion carried on over dinner gardeners always make interesting table companions.
When I awoke the next morning, I looked out from my four-poster on the gallery of the Jekyll suite in a converted orangery over her Water Gardens, and wondered whether Jekyll would have agreed with Coles notion that modern gardeners should try to capture the spirit of former times.
Either way, in transforming gardens from the tortuous bedding patterns of the Victorian era to her own light, subtle and billowy style, she has influenced many of todays gardeners.
*Tylney Hall Hotel, near Hook in Hampshire, is planning further Garden Appreciation Weekends; for more information visit tylneyhall.com or call 01256 764881. The Manor House at Upton Grey is open on weekdays; see gertrudejekyllgarden.co.uk. For information about West Green Houses opera season and garden, see westgreenhouse.co.uk.
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