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gull
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response 12 of 36:
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Jun 25 15:07 UTC 2002 |
See, I've never been interested enough to get involved in the soap-opera
aspects.
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bhelliom
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response 13 of 36:
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Jun 26 16:21 UTC 2002 |
Neither Serena nor Venus are the stereotypical women in the tennis
game. They are more no nonsense than a lot of folks. And one is
as "brash" the other. People like Serena more because she's sunnier,
smiles more. Venus doesn't. I can agree about their father, and I
suspect that that wears more on the eldest tennis player than it does
the younger.
Resp:11 I miss GS, too. I thought she was tops.
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albaugh
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response 14 of 36:
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Jun 26 16:27 UTC 2002 |
What is it about Venus that you "can't tolerate"? From what I've heard of
Mr. Williams, I concur.
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mynxcat
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response 15 of 36:
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Jun 26 16:52 UTC 2002 |
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md
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response 16 of 36:
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Jun 27 03:11 UTC 2002 |
Lots of upsets. Champions and favorites are dropping like flies:
Agassi, Federer, Sampras and Marat Safin are all out. Sandrine Testud
lost to Mary Pierce.
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pthomas
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response 17 of 36:
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Jun 27 19:03 UTC 2002 |
Looks like Hewitt and Henman are through round two...the Williams
sisters, Hingis, and Capriati also emerged unscathed. Personally my
money's on Henman to win the mens' and Williams (one of them anyway) to
win the womens'.
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md
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response 18 of 36:
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Jun 28 13:47 UTC 2002 |
I caught a few minutes of the Dokic-Dechy match this morning. I know
it's not PC to comment on the female players' appearance, but Jelena
Dokic gets curvier every time I see her. I believe the term now would
be "va-va-voomish." She was voted sexiest female by the ball-kids at
the French open last year. (Yes, they actually poll them.) I awlays
thought she was cute, despite her Slavic peasant face. She's grown a
tiny bit thick in the waist, but who cares? She put Nathalie Dechy
away 7-5 6-2.
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md
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response 19 of 36:
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Jul 2 22:59 UTC 2002 |
Spectacular tennis by Venus Williams. She is major fun to watch.
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md
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response 20 of 36:
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Jul 2 23:21 UTC 2002 |
On the other hand...
In an interview yesterday, Venus Williams opined that Steffi Graf was
not a good grass court player. Graf won the Wimbledon championship
seven times.
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md
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response 21 of 36:
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Jul 3 12:40 UTC 2002 |
Jennifer Capriati vs. Amelie Mauresmo today. Battle of the amazons
(Capriati is extremely buff, Mauresmo is an out-of-closet lesbian *and*
extremely buff), if that look appeals to you.
Pale skinny little Justine Henin, the Belgian anti-amazon, beat Monica
Seles but will have to face Venus Williams tomorrow, weather
permitting. If she beats Venus, I will finally give up trying to
understand tennis.
Except for Tim Henman and Lleyton Hewitt, and barely them, there's
nobody interesting left on the men's side.
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md
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response 22 of 36:
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Jul 3 13:11 UTC 2002 |
More rain.
They're showing clips of last year's match between Venus Williams and
Justine Henin. The announcers this year pronounce it either just-EEN
HEN-in or just-EEN ENna, depending on their languange skills. It's
probably more like zhoos-TEEN en-ANG (without voicing the G). Anyone
know how Belgians pronounce stuff?
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bhelliom
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response 23 of 36:
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Jul 3 15:34 UTC 2002 |
Well, given the calliber of tennis that is being played now, it's
possible that Steffi Graff would have won less matches. To our eyes
she may have been spectacular, but to other tennis players, who knows.
The difference with Venus is, she's not always willing to keep her
opinion to herself.
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mynxcat
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response 24 of 36:
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Jul 3 16:10 UTC 2002 |
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md
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response 25 of 36:
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Jul 4 12:53 UTC 2002 |
So it's Venus Williams vs. Justine Henin and Serena Williams vs. Amelie
Mauresmo in the semis. Mauresmo beat Capriati yesterday, which
surprised everybody. (Mauresmo has a self-confidence problem, and is
said to be seeing a sports psychologist about it.) Neither Williams
sister should be having a problem, but I haven't watched yet.
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md
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response 26 of 36:
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Jul 4 17:24 UTC 2002 |
Venus crushed Justine Henin, and Serena is in the process of crushing
Amelie Mauresmo. I can't watch. Mauresmo is a nice kid: she's an
environmentalist, an outdoors person, a hiker, biker, boater, climber
and all that good stuff, and she maintains her own web site for her
fans, complete with diary. http://www.amelie-mauresmo.com/ (Helps if
you read French but there's an English version, too.) Nice doesn't
count for spit out on the court, though.
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md
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response 27 of 36:
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Jul 7 15:15 UTC 2002 |
Serena beat Venus, I guess. The men's singles title will go to Lleyton
Hewitt or the other guy.
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jep
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response 28 of 36:
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Jul 7 19:24 UTC 2002 |
Lleyton Hewitt, in straight sets. He totally overmatched his opponent.
I hadn't watched Wimbledon much this year, mainly due to lack of time.
I enjoyed the men's contest more than I expected to. A few years ago,
the last time I was really interested in Wimbledon, it was a game of
serve, return, volley, end of point, over and over again. I like
ground strokes, and there weren't many at all.
Today's game was a ground stroke game. They were strategically setting
up points, not just blazing the ball past one another. I like that. I
wish I'd watched more now. I guess they did some things to slow the
game down, because others felt like I do.
Now if they could slow down the US Open. Hahaha. Never happen. About
the only thing you could do to slow down the game on that concrete
surface would be to use Nerf tennis balls.
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md
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response 29 of 36:
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Jul 7 21:48 UTC 2002 |
A couple of final Wimblenotes:
Sandrine Testud has announced her retirement from the game of tennis.
She's pregnant and wants to be a full-time mom.
After pinning the epithet "va-va-voomish" on Jelena Dokic, I've been
wanting to post a url with a picture of her that illustrates that
admirable quality. She was certainly va-va-voomish on TV in the one
match I saw her play against Dechy, but the still pictures I've found
of her are disappointing. For one thing, she makes this horrible
skwunchy-face when she hits the ball that ruins the impression:
http://www.sanexheroes.com/bouquets/8/photos_440.html
http://www.sanexheroes.com/bouquets/8/photos_437.html
The http://www.sanexheroes.com/ site has an uncountable number of
pictures of her and other tennis stars. If anyone feels like browsing
through them and you find a good picture, do share.
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bhelliom
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response 30 of 36:
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Jul 10 16:11 UTC 2002 |
I think I was having a bad morning when I was watching the womena's
final. Venus losing made me cry. ;p
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mynxcat
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response 31 of 36:
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Jul 10 16:12 UTC 2002 |
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bhelliom
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response 32 of 36:
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Jul 11 13:53 UTC 2002 |
<sniffles>
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mynxcat
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response 33 of 36:
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Jul 11 14:25 UTC 2002 |
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dexterl
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response 34 of 36:
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Jan 29 05:36 UTC 2003 |
Hey, this is an old post-- anyway, I think that nobody mentioned David
Nalbandian here, so I think that he deserves a lot more cause he's the first
player that reached the finals at Wimbledon in the first season as a pro
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jep
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response 35 of 36:
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Jan 29 11:48 UTC 2003 |
I thought Boris Becker did that too.
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dexterl
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response 36 of 36:
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May 4 00:46 UTC 2003 |
no, he didn't. Vamos Argentina todavia
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