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I mean, if that's what you're into...
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Well, I know that this is supposed to be a party-happy place. The kind of place where the raki flows like wine and fabulous tennis players flock like the salmon of Capistrano. We’re talking about Serbia, the home country of recent Australian Open winner,
Novak Djokovic.
And like I said, I know it’s supposed to be full of revelers and boiler-makers, but I didn’t know that they got this wild. It must be seriously freezing that close to the Russian tundra. So cold that if you didn’t have a pair of gloves on your hands would be seriously cold (but not cold enough to wear two pairs of gloves – your hands would get sweaty.) And to have enough Djokovic-devotion to hang out in permafrost, cheering on your country-mate, means to seriously like tennis (or seriously drink enough pear brandy to forget that it’s cold.)
Novak Djokovic and
Jelena Jankovic recently won the “Oscar of Popularity” in Serbia, Djokovic being awarded the title of “Sportsman of the Year” and Jankovic receiving “Sportswoman of the Year.” So, needless to say, tennis is big in Serbia. Or, at least other sports aren’t as successful. So when your best sportsman wins a tennis Slam, you celebrate. And you celebrate right. You could grab a couple of Big Gulps and hang out in front of the local 7/11, or you could stay out late into the iceberigishly cold night, cheering on tennis players competing on a different, much warmer, hemisphere.
In any case, it’s great to see some people enduring the elements. And hey, that’s a really nice ski mask!
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2/3/2011 11:32:54 AM | with
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No, she's not pregnant again.
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The WTA might have another miniature stir-up this week as Caroline Wozniacki threatens to take over as the head honcha spot in tennis. While Kim Clijsters took the title for the best woman in the world just this Monday, if Wozniacki beats the Israeli competitor Shahar Peer, who currently sits at her career high 11th place. Despite Wozniacki’s high rank, Peer took her down in the same tournament just last year. So while this may seem like a no-brainer for a Wozniacki win, hold on – Kim Clijsters may hold on to this one for a while.
And really, that’d be an absolutely great thing. I’m tired of not knowing what’s going on in the WTA. It seems like every month there is a new it player that will obviously, definitely become the greatest player in the history of tennis. So seriously, Serena, quit with the foot stuff so there will once again be order in a chaotic system of European flip-floppers.
I understand that Europeans are generally more casual about these kinds of things – what with their social welfare and what not – but this is a competition, so if you’re not going to take this seriously, I’ll have to go all Tootsie and show everybody who the boss hogg is.
Only time will tell if the seemingly random ranking swap-meet will settle down and make sense. But until then, let’s just throw our hands in the air and say, “Ey, yo, you betta let go!”
That’s the only advice I have for you right now.
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2/17/2011 1:13:25 PM | with
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