Tennis player retires to become professional poker player

[snowbank]

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=1923250

[semipro]

Go Kafelnikov!! I hope to see him in the WSOP this June/July. He certainly does have the right tude towards the game.

[snowbank]

Is he a known winning poker player or something? The article made it seem like he liked playing so he decided to go pro because it was fun. Didn't mention if he was a winning player unless I missed it.

[TheTimeIsUp]

I saw this on sportscenter too. None of them have ever heard of this guy though /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[pdxmike]

i think he won a pretty big omaha tourney in europe last month

[Freudian]

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I saw this on sportscenter too. None of them have ever heard of this guy though /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Shows more of their lack of sports knowledge than his lack of tennis success.

He has been ranked #1 in the world and has won several Grand Slam tournaments. He also won the Olympic tournament in Sydney 2000. One of the better players in the last ten years.

[Darth Bane]

He was a very good player but was also known as a lazy player who had no heart.