Category Archives: Tennis
Last Week …
This semester is now fairly officially drawing to a close and while I adore my students I couldn’t be happier to be finishing this one off. So much to do and every just means I’m that much closer to a … Continue reading
Australian Open = Tired Will
No two ways around it: now that the Australian Open has begun, and airs from 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. our time most days (on ESPN2), what choice will I have but to be very tired over the next two … Continue reading
Roddick’s Naked Lesson
Um, okay, why am I not rich? Cause this has my name all over it … lucky bitch!
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Serena #1 Again!
Serena gave me a few rough moments last night, and I feared I’d be asleep before she won, but wow, what a finish! She is playing such better tennis than just a year ago, when she won the Australian Open … Continue reading
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Damn Sweaty Hands
While playing tennis this afternoon, I managed to sling my tennis racquet out of my sweaty hand and cracked the frame. There’s $200 out the window … I guess now I can demo some Babolats; last time, it was between … Continue reading
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French Tennis
French tennis has much going for it right now; as I watch the Toronto tournament, I cannot help but think that I’d be happy in the middle of a Richard-Gasquet-Gilles-Simon sandwich. Yummy … Harder to come by a picture of … Continue reading
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Watching Wimbledon 2008
Each day, for a few minutes @ 7:00 a.m., and then again at 7:00 p.m. on the Tennis Channel, I get to watch a bit of the “Here’s Wimbledon” and “Here’s London” stuff that ESPN and Tennis Channel do to … Continue reading
Brad Gilbert’s = Douche
Every time ESPN puts Brad Gilbert on as a tennis commentator, I just cringe … he is so unbelievably offensive at every turn …
Last Days in London: Wimbledon, Bucks Palace, Etc.
It’s almost time to turn the projector on, I suppose, time to see what we have, time to see … but not just yet. A few more “catching up” notes on the weeks. I’d said I’d post individually about Wimbledon, … Continue reading
