Daily Bagel: Kerber credits Steffi Graf for her turnaround this season

Angelique Kerber credits a training block with Steffi Graf for turning around her season, an interview with Eugenie Bouchard's coach, Andy Murray watches a young Brit's match at the French Open and more of the interesting report, writing and quipping from around the Internet.
Daily Bagel: Kerber credits Steffi Graf for her turnaround this season
Daily Bagel: Kerber credits Steffi Graf for her turnaround this season /

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• Angelique Kerber credits a training block with SteffiGraf for turning around her season.

• Great interview in L'Equipe with EugenieBouchard's coach Sam Sumyk:

Too quickly even. She went from 'we don’t know who she is' to a Slam final. That’s heavy. All the parameters change. When you have good results and climb in the rankings, you enter the circle of the most hated players on the tour. By that I mean everyone wants to kick your butt. 

• Interesting read in the New York Times on the controversy surrounding Guillermo Vilas' career-high ranking: Should he have been No. 1?

• USTA President Dave Haggarty is running for ITF president.

• After losing to her friend Lucie Safarova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova tweeted this:

[tweet=https://twitter.com/NastiaPav/status/602958438004596736]

• You won't see many top players do this: After winning his first round match on Monday, Andy Murray bundled up and sat amongst the crowd on Court 7 to cheer on fellow Brit Kyle Edmund. Edmund beat Stephane Robert to notch his first Slam win. 

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COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.