Archive for September, 2010
Some things are in the blood
September 15th, 2010 • 7 comments Jelena Jankovic
JJ‘s cousin is a ‘popstar’ back in Serbia. Now my life is officially made.
(video via Forty Deuce)
Golden Letters
September 14th, 2010 • 1 comment Rafael Nadal
If someone had told me an exact year ago that Rafael Nadal would be winning three slams in a row and completing the Golden Slam at fantastic fashion just about now, my reaction would be something along the lines of ‘Mate, get the fuck off’. From his loss to Soderling in Roland Garros up until the end of the season–not including Davis Cup–, Rafa had gathered 25 wins and 10 losses. That’s a 60% winning percentage. The scary thing was how absolutely devastating some of those losses were. It doesn’t take much to find a Rafa fan that relates last year’s World Tour Finals to nightmares. He lost all three matches without even snagging a set. The knee was looking better but you could see the Spaniard that had always been associated with a bull had no confidence left. Read more »
Tennis players: they can hit balls with racquets and they aren’t all that bad looking
September 3rd, 2010 • 2 comments Ana Ivanovic, Maria Kirilenko, Samantha Stosur
Guess who’s looking fine as ever on the cover of the Vanity Fair website today? No, not Blake Lively. It’s our own (in our dreams) Maria Kirilenko!
Vanity Fair magazine did a shoot with 31 players who are in the U.S. Open. There’s a quite a nice variety of players: number one seed Caroline Wozniacki, qualifier cutie Ryan Harrison, wheelchair-player Esther Vergeer, twitter favourite Andrea Petkovic, the boring as ever Bryan Brothers, amongst others. You can check out the whole thing here.
Now we have finished the serious part of the post, let’s play a game.
One of these players is photogenic. The other is not. Guess who.
(Suggestion thanks to Kirilicious)
Stuff I’m not good at: #455756 blogging
September 2nd, 2010 • 3 comments Uncategorized
I AM THE WORST BLOGGER IN THE WORLD. SORRY, EVERYONE. I’ll sum up my thoughts on the U.S. Open so far and you guys can, like, be happy this is an ACTUAL POST. (WOW. I’M IN A CAPSLOCK MOOD TODAY.)
- Andrea Petkovic won a tough match. Most importantly: she didn’t choke. Ok, she did, but what matters is she still won. ESPN was rewarded with a blog. It’s wonderful. I want to marry her. I’m afraid I don’t stand a chance. (Or do I? CALL ME, PETKO. 555-I-AM-A-FIERCE-BITCH-BABY)
- Remember the Stella dress I was very excited to see? I’m eager to take a look at the rest of it, like, say, the bit that covers Caroline Wozniacki‘s ass. I bet it’s AMAZING.
- Victoria Azarenka broke my heart. Must be Wednesday.
- Someone is looking like a fierce bitch in all-black, and it ain’t Roger Federer.
- ‘Whine, whine, whine, whine’–my article on Andy Roddick‘s loss.
That’s it, I think. I missed you kids. Did you guys miss me? Don’t answer that.
Fierce Tennis, you say?
Answer: I have tried and failed several times to keep blogs up. Why? Because I don’t like doing serious journalism unless there’s money showing up in my bank account — and there wasn’t. This blog will have no interest in being impartial or, you know, actually talking about the sport (ok, maybe from time to time). There are tons of other blogs (and news websites) that do this job pretty well already. Here we will discuss the shallow part: the outfits, the gossip, the outrages and who Fernando Verdasco is currently dating.
