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• I’m Voo (you can call me VdM if you want) – huge fan of men’s tennis since 1990

• Tennis is my biggest love, music is the second albeit I don’t play any instruments, I don’t sing either

• I love watching, playing and writing about tennis –  it’s my passion, my other favorite sports – volleyball (watching), squash & table tennis (playing), when I was younger I used to play often football/soccer and basketball, I appreciate chess a lot but play rarely

• My hobbies: watching movies (saw a lot in my teenage years; I used to draw then as well), reading humanistic articles/books, spending time with friends, traveling and learning languages; if you aren’t  fluent enough in written English,  you can communicate with me here also in: Polish, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Dutch & Czech. Maybe I won’t reply to your comments in one of these languages, but I can read  them tennis-wise and will reply you in English

• In Portuguese, my name (‘voo de mar’) means “sea’s flight” 沃 德 玛
• The right side picture on my banner:  I’m watching in London the legendary match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut (24:23 for the American in the 5th set at the time) 

• Treat this website as a supplement to www.atpworldtour.com and MTF. I want to register the current tennis seasons in historical context (making statistical digressions within the Open era). Weekly summing up or daily when Grand Slam or Masters tournaments are in progress… I’ve been adding older Grand Slam tournaments since March 2012 using articles contained in American newspapers, enriching them with my remarks (blue color). My ambition is to gather here all majors of the Open era. I decided to deliver comprehensive summary of all majors from years 1980-2010 (photos prior to 2000 are black-and-white because I wanted to standardize their quality). Why did I make shorter summaries as far as years 1968-1979 are concerned? There are two reasons: first of all the lack of extensive information from early 70s, especially given Australian Open, moreover since 1980 begins a new tennis decade in which players,  who started their careers in the pre-Open era, aren’t important in the crucial stages of the biggest events anymore, it’s a fully Open era time. I’d say that in some sense this website possesses four different levels from a perspective of detailed development: the entire tennis history < years 1968-1979 < years 1980-2010 < subsequent years starting with a year 2011, so the year since I’ve been following men’s events here week by week
• Browsers for comfortable navigations? Mentioned above the banner. I prepare the website in Opera, ’1152-864′ resolution, keep in mind that under Internet Explorer my site looks awfully
• Below my graphical variation about the world of tennis where the “yellow ball” is one’s career. Hundreds of those balls connected with themselves make the history of tennis