Friday, July 26, 2013

The Greatest Commercials In Tennis

The US Open Series is upon us and it made me think of those awesome commercials with the players that stopped in 2010. Here are some of my favorites.



2008 Bus commercials everybodyguys taking a ROADTRIP!!!!



It Must Be Love... 

Rafa works at his hobby and then gives us a recipe.... 


Maria really could have done better. She apparently takes her nap time very seriously. 



Serena and Roddick talk twitter 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZdr4rVHPA

The Real US Open Series

Half of these players are retired

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Paris Pondering





Wonder if she knows about Rafa's football connections and that he is really just a tennis leftie.





They just happen to be ranked in the two spots ahead of her boyfriend. Also this happened.... yes that would be Benoit Paire himself retweeting it.



Bold choice Andy. 

While he has been away from Paris Andy Murray won the first week with his tweets. He is a Aga fan, possibly invented the hashtag of the year, complained about commentators . Which lead me to the conclusion is really bored sitting in home or he is just letting his inner tennis dork free while he can. 


I am still not sure if he confused Ula with Aga here but maybe the ninja skills are genetic. Also blonde Aga confuses things. 


He really goes wild on Saturday night

  • Extended fifth sets are not a Grand Slam problem. It is a John Isner playing Grand Slam tennis problem. That is two years in a row that he has lost in an extended fifth set at Roland Garros alone. 
  • Tennis coverage on weekends & holidays (Memorial & Labor Day) is rough. They show what they think will catch the casual viewers eye. It is unfortunate for the hardcores but they do what they think will make them the most money. If you pay for tennis tv, tennis channel or possibly both and for those few hours that the Slam is getting national network tv exposure then I really don't think the tennis gods will smite you if you pop open a stream to watch a match or two. Yes it is not ideal but it is a better use of the time the match is on to be using a yes somewhat shady resource to get to watch what you want. 
  • Serena is looking amazing so far but the quarterfinals are the obstacle that has stopped her from adding to the only single trophy in her Grand Slam collection. She faces Sveta next who beat her in this very round on the way to winning in 2009. Will there be a different outcome Tuesday? 
  • In Rafa's first two matches especially he has not had the edge that he usually does and there have been some unexpected happening for someone who has won an event seven times but of one who is coming back from a extended break from the game. When he stepped on the court Monday he had not been on the grand slam stage in eleven months. Do the reaction to the results have more to do with where they are happening rather than what actually happened? Say that this was the US Open, would you look at Rafa dropping a set to Brands and in real threat of going down two sets to love in the first round with the same shock. Then in the second round again losing the first set to Klizan another hard hitter who he had never faced. In a way it takes me back to Wimbledon 2011 Serena in her first Slam back from her long heath battle and to my memory the talk was that she was going to come back and win "because she is Serena", "because its Wimbledon". Which while I think it was a good for them to time their come backs before their most successful Slams. It makes the expectations seem even greater because of the history they have at these events. There were improvements in the Fognini match and he can only improve and gain rhythm going into the second week. The sun is all expected to be shining on Monday at least. 
  • This is shaping up to be the year of the 30- something Tommy. Both Haas & Robredo are through to the quarterfinals. 





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Monday, May 20, 2013

Swimmers for Aly

Fierce Five member Aly Raisman made it to the final of Dancing with the Stars which is on right now on ABC and team USA's swimmers want you to vote for her.





















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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Some Advice to Sloane from Rory Gilmore

So Sloane Stephens told SI Baseline that she didn't know that her Serena comments were "on the record" here.  So 

LORELAI: What? We were just talking. She won’t print any of it.
RORY: Why? Was it off the record?
LORELAI: Yeah. Technically. It wasn’t about the inn.
RORY: But did you say ‘it’s off the record’?
LORELAI: No.
RORY: Then it’s fair game, so she can print all of it.
 - Gilmore Girls 5.18 To Live and Let Diorama
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Ryan Lochte Experience

The moment we have all been waiting for the premiere of What Would Ryan Do just ended and here are a few of the finer moments of the first episode. It was exactly what I expected it to be with lots of Ryan with his shirt off, with his family and showing that he is a more than just some super swimmer. In the entire thirty minute episode apart from the interviews Ryan had his shirt on for maybe 4 minutes if not less. Now to the tweets.




Fellow Gator and Olympic Gold Medalist was watching.




In a future episode Ryan will try golfing. On the subject of golf this show was way more entertaining than Michael learns to golf.













What is that face?




Ryan defending his favorite movie.
















I cannot wait till next week and actually for the entire series if this first episode was so good then I can only imagine what adventures await us.







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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Birthday Week

Maria Sharapova has been tweeting about her pre birthday celebrations all week and with her birthday tomorrow now is a good time to recap the festivities.




First who doesn't love cupcakes?








Birthday Dinner. Hi Tommy! Also you are so adorable tweeting your'e self Maria. #drunk?




More Birthday dinner frivolity


Also since Pova's birthday is such a big deal the tennis gods gifted us all with a glorious match up on the eyes.




Rafa vs Grigor in Monte Carlo seems like the perfect way to celebrate. No?
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Desert Paradise

Both tours have returned for the yearly trip which is the tennis paradise of Indian Wells. There many story lines this year Rafa Nadal has not played a hard court match since Miami last year although his comeback has had two titles on the clay of the Golden Swing, Novak Djokovic and Victoria Azarenka have both not lost a match this year on way to two titles each. While Andy Murray has not played a match since losing in the final of the Australian Open and has not won a match at Indian Wells since 2010.

Women's Early Matches to watch: Draw
Laura Robson vs Sofia Arvidisson to play Julia Goerges.
Madison Keys vs Melanie Oudin to play Sam Stosur
Fran Schivone vs Maria Sharapova- Round 2

Doubles Pairings to watch: Draw
Sveta Kuznetsova and Flavia Pannetta
Petra Kivtova and Yanina Wickymayer
Julia Goreges and Yaroslava Shvedova
Andrea Petkovic and Angelique Kerber

Men's Early Matches to watch: Draw
Go Sodea vs Ryan Harrison to play Rafa Nadal
Ernest Gulbis vs Feli Lopez
Bernie Tomic vs Tomaz Belluci to play Richard Gasquet
Marcel Granollers vs David Nalbandian
Mardy Fish can play either Ben Becker or Bobby Reynolds in his first match since last years US Open.

Double Pairings to watch: Draw
Ferrer and Robredo play Isner and Querrey in the first round.
Grigor Dimitrov and Freddie Nielson in the totally random department
The Murray Brothers!
Feli Lopez and Milos Raonic
Tommy Hass and Xavier Malisse
Marc Lopez and Marcel Granollers- Marc won the title last year with Rafa.
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