The matches sucked but CEREMONY ADORABLENESS didn't

May 17th, 2009 • 3 comments bb safina, caro the danish cutie, holy rafa, roger failderer

Even though my feelings towards both of the finals was “Wahwahwah why was it so boring and why did X have to lose?”, the trophy presentation made up for it. I don’t think I should be complaining about the quality of the tennis after yesterday’s epic semifinal but eh, I wish Rafa wasn’t a dead man walking today so I would have been more entertained. Thank goodness for tennis players being giggly at each other and Dinara IN JEANS* (I was ridiculously amused by that, ok?)!!!!

• This picture (and this .gif) of Roger and Dinara when the glitter bomb exploded is literally the LOLLIEST thing ever. They were both scared to death and JUMPED at the sound. Why so presh, bbs?
• You can see a picspam at someone’s personal LJ here of the Rafa-Roger final and some qt pictures of the ceremony.
• Here’s a video of the first part of the trophy presentation. Why is the men’s runner-up trophy so fugly? Is it because they thought it was going to go to Federer/Nole?
• Here’s the second part aka Dinara being adorable speaking Spanish. Hee!

*Does anyone know if these are Diesel jeans from the Adidas collection? Srs question.

First title as number one in the world…

May 9th, 2009 • bb safina

How does it feel?

Yup, thought so.

Dinara got two different kinds of revenges at the Rome final. The first one against finalist, Svetlana Kuznetsova, who she had lost to last week at the Stuttart final. And the second, against big-mouthed Serena Williams, that had said in the beginning of the week: “We all know who’s the real number one”. Well, we certainly do now, don’t we, Dina? Enjoy the title and the ranking, girl. Serena and Federer need to learn that a little humility doesn’t kill. Really, I promise, you can still win if you learn how to be polite!

Random questions: I love them

May 5th, 2009 • bb safina

I do adore when journalists find it fitter to ask completely random questions instead of asking about the match. There are some gems from Dinara Safina‘s yesterday’s press conference in Rome.

Q. Are you jealous about girlfriend of your brother, or not?
DINARA SAFINA: No, never. No, this is — because this was also like it was funny for me, because I never — all of them, like I’m really like getting good with them, and then of course is disappointing when he bumps them.
Then I feel in the middle, because like I’m good with them but they fight, and I don’t know which side to take. For me it’s also not a nice situation because I’m like in the middle between two of them.
Of course I feel sorry for the girl because she love him and then she still wants to get with him, and then I don’t know. I’m like, Okay. I’m communicating with one and then the other one. (Laughter.)

Assuming she (or the translator) meant “dump”, omg lol. Poor girl becomes friends with Marat’s girlfriends and then he dumps them. How selfish of Marat, not thinking about his sister’s friendships. And I wonder what Dinara talks about with those girls. Boys…. erh, no? Clothes? “Tennis”? I have no idea.

Q. Who plays more with dolls when you were children?
DINARA SAFINA: He was playing more with the cars obviously than me. I had Barbies. At one stage I was playing like tournaments, and if I would win a tournament my mom would buy me a Barbie. So I like Barbies a lot.

Did the interviewer imply big bad macho playa Marat played with dolls? OH NO HE DIDN’T.

Today, Dina had a terrible fall on clay. Which is always extra embarrassing, because not only it hurts but you also get all dirty. Ack, poor girl. Well, she still won 7-6(1) 6-1 against Virgine Razzano. Personally, I’m more shocked that her legs go on forever.

P.S. Chaky won two matches in a row. What is this? The apocalypse?