“I’m finding it difficult to execute shots I want to execute,” the British No 1 added.Johansson, the Australian Open champion – the player who did for Britain in the first round of the Davis Cup in Birmingham last month by defeating Greg Rusedski in the fifth rubber – went straight from the Centre Court to the practice courts yesterday after his match against Alex Calatrava, of Spain.It was not simply that the Swedish No 1 felt he had been under-worked – a lower back injury forced Calatrava to retire after 51 minutes with Johansson leading, 6-3, 2-1 – but rather that he needed to discipline his errant serve.”I got really frustrated when I was not serving as well as usual,” the third seed said, having vented his anger by throwing down his racket several times. Seldom do we see two frustrated winners on the same afternoon, but both Tim Henman and Thomas Johansson were unhappy with their form yesterday and are determined to take it out on each other when they meet in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Open here tonight.
“I’m struggling,” Henman, the fifth seed, said after subduing Max Mirnyi, from Minsk, the so-called “Beast of Belarus”, 6-4, 6-4, after 89 minutes. The Broncos were due to play at Headingley tonight, but the match has been postponed until Sunday afternoon, because of storm damage to the ground’s main stand.
Part of the stand was closed for last week’s Challenge Cup tie against Hull KR, but it was supposed to be repaired in time for tonight’s game.”The contractors have been working on it, but the wind and rain have prevented them finishing the job,” said the Rhinos’ chief executive, Gary Hetherington, who is confident that it will be completed for Sunday.Craig Smith is losing his battle to be fit to give the Wigan pack the aggression it lacked the last time they played Bradford. Leeds and London have had the start of their Super League season blown back by at least two days. Tell them what you want to do in a year or two, and you avoid resistance It’s not rocket science.”. You need to decide how radical to make the changes, when you want them to take effect, and then work it back from there If you ask people to do something tomorrow, they’ll resist.

Categorically, that was more expensive than if we had been able to test as usual in December.”Rule stability always closes up the field, whereas change historically opens gaps between the haves and the have-nots and undermines economy measures.”If you want to cut costs,” Dennis said emphatically, “you need calm, systematic thought-through strategy, not knee-jerk reaction. “From 4 January until we sent the cars out to Australia last week we had 30 people working flat out in testing. The recent so-called testing ban, for example, certainly cost us much more money, the way we decided to do things.”McLaren’s Ron Dennis agrees. The manufacturers understand this, but they haven’t been asked at this stage.”As we have seen in many cases before, a team will spend as much money as it is able to get in to spend, so if you limit expenditure in certain areas, more expenditure will go on testing or drivers’ salaries or whatever I haven’t yet seen a real cost-saving venture in F1.

They will have to do a lot more of that and it is very expensive.”Many, many other things that have been proposed as money savers over the years, but I suspect in the end this might well prove the opposite in terms of what it would do. At the moment BMW and all these other manufacturers have dynamometers on which you can do full, simulated grand prix distances. But there are some very complex matters involved in having one engine. Therefore it seems logical that they should be instrumental in making decisions amongst themselves if they want to reduce the number of engines. But Williams-BMW’s technical director, Patrick Head, believes that such a course would actually increase costs.”I think it’s quite complicated The predominant suppliers of engines are the manufacturers. But the truth is that the world is calm but in a depressed economic state,” said one leading contestant, who is concerned that the current situation might be perfect for those in authority with a mind to divide and rule.All of the teams lined up to compete in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne’s Albert Park agree that costs need controlling, but there is less unison regarding the proposed means of achieving that.The world champion, Michael Schumacher, one of sport’s highest-paid competitors, admitted that he was not “one hundred per cent in the picture,” but said he was in favour of cutting costs. The latter would mean engine manufacturers designing completely new engines, possibly of different configuration, in place of the present three-litre V10s used by all 11 teams.”Some companies have taken full advantage of the events of 11 September to disguise their own inadequacies.