****Postscript to this – Perhaps those twinges we witnessed Haas dealing with during practice weren’t nothing after all. He retired in the second set of his match Monday against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.******
MELBOURNE – At 35, the No. 12 seed in the Australian Open men’s singles draw is as fine as ever.
And – big news – he now, finally, has a clothing deal.
As of two days ago, when the pics were snapped, he was still in his usual mishmash of whatever was lying on the hotel room floor – in this case, an Asics t-shirt and Nike shorts.
Vintage name for a vintage guy.
Let’s just hope that shoulder “thing” (pictured above) doesn’t turn out to be an actual “thing”.