When Mr Weismann, who is still alive, visited the set he walked out, gasping for air.
In his next set he was able to manage about the same number of pull-ups as when he had started.
And by using the glove between each set he was, in a subsequent experiment, able to raise his performance in a full session from 180 pull-ups to 600.
In the third set he won eight of the final nine points to close out the victory and then gave Gulbis a pat on the chest as both smiled.
"First set he played well, and I didn't serve too well, and he had some chances in the second set and I saved a couple of really important points, " said Soderling.
Nalbandian has slipped to 25th in the rankings this season, but after his shaky start in the opening set he became the first player to crack the Federer serve during the tournament.
The performance betters his own Irish record of 8.00m which he set when he reached the World Championship final in Seville in 1999.
There was - from the day he set foot at Churchill Downs until, you know, the time he set foot on the track at Pimlico, I mean, I never heard a whisper about Barbaro.
His performances for England during the autumn internationals and for Wasps around the same time were so far below the standards he had already set that he looked like a teenage rookie, rather than England's fly-half.
In June he sent a 30-page report to Italy's industry minister in which he set out what he saw as the causes of Parmalat's bankruptcy.
Nadal regained the dominance on serve he had enjoyed for most of the tournament as he saw out the set until he played a poor game at 2-1 down in the second, a double fault and a backhand error giving Djokovic the break to love.
Soderling, who had lost all four of his previous matches against Djokovic, dropped only 11 points as he rattled through the second set and he had chances for an early break in the third.
He needs only one break per set and he was playing really good tennis.
He is set to face Scotland for Fiji on Saturday, although he is set to miss later games against Ireland and Romania as his wife is expecting a child.
He set high standards and he expected his "troops" to live up to them.
And then in the dark early hours one morning in March, he set aside the materials he'd been working with.
They like his character and the fact that he can play positively and intelligently under pressure, but he got set twice and he didn't capitalise.
He set fastest laps once he was clear of traffic in the last stint of the race but by then he had lost too much ground.
He will set them after he has decided how big Railtrack's asset base is, and how much investment the company is likely to make in the next five years.
Jack was now maxing out his 401K contributions, and even took advantage of the additional amount he could set aside when he turned fifty, but retiring at age fifty-five now seemed out of the question.
He and the board members assembled a lay staff with a broad skill set, he said, including businessmen, educators and public relations experts who could share ideas about everything from fund-raising strategies to curriculum standards.
He saved three match points, including two in the ninth game of the second set which he eventually won 7-5.
"What we've been doing is getting our capabilities located, positioned, arranged around the world so that at that point where the president decides that he has a set of things he would like done, that we will be in a position to carry those things out, " he said.
Down 4-2 in the fifth set, he did what he does better than anyone: escape.
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He set up weekly meetings, which he ran from a video-conference suite next to his office.
So, I think this probably the most normal set up he's seen so far, '' he chortles.
In the second set, he fell behind 5-3, recovered and then lost a tiebreaker.
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Youzhny's quarter-final opponent, Philipp Kohlschreiber, retired after losing the first set when he felt unwell.
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