Wordplay: The Best Quotes and Tweets from Fed Cup and Monte-Carlo

By Chris Oddo

Photo Credit: Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

(April 23, 2012)—It’s Monday. In other words, it is once again time to look back at who said—and Tweeted—what during the week that was in tennis…

“I like to believe that when a person goes away from this world, the spirit stays and just moves to another living being, and we should celebrate the life that that person left behind.” – Novak Djokovic

“I think Rafael Nadal has found secret to beating Djoker. No practice for 15 days.” – Patrick McEnroe, commenting on the Djokovic-Nadal Monte-Carlo final, via Twitter.

“Sometimes it's not about the game & the result. It's about family & life. Thoughts & prayers to the Djokovic family.” – Darren Cahill, telling it like it is, via Twitter.

“I never played on blue clay. Rafa didn't. Roger didn't. We're going on there and we're going to play for the first time ever. We don't even know if it's a natural blue clay because natural clay is a red clay. So we will find out really. I'm not really too happy about it, you know what I mean?” – Novak Djokovic, speaking publicly for the first time on his thoughts on the blue clay in Madrid.

“I was like ‘I don’t hit double-faults,’ I even screamed at myself one time.” – Serena Williams, reflecting on hitting three doubles in one game during her tie-clinching victory over Lesia Tsurenko in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

“I still feeling little bit. You have pain, but you feel you can run to every ball, the pain never is a problem. Today, that’s the situation, and I’m very happy.” – Rafael Nadal, keeping us all updated on his tender left knee after the Monte-Carlo final.

“If the Hangover is not in your top 5 all time favorite movies, there is something wrong with you.” – Ryan Harrison, telling many of us that there is something wrong with us, via Twitter.

“Every time I lose a match I get asked ‘What did you do wrong?’ Sometimes the guys play well. He played extremely well today. He dictated a lot of the points, he went for his shots, and he served very well.” – Andy Murray, giving all the credit to Tomas Berdych after bowing out to the Czech in the Monte-Carlo semis.

“Casey has named our teams the Australian Cockatoos, maybe he can be cocky.” – Sam Stosur, when asked if her team has a nickname for the plastic kangaroo they take to matches with them.

“Sometimes you have several breakpoints. When you start losing one, you lose ten.
On these points, he didn't have to play great.” – Gilles Simon, lamenting the fact that he was 0 for 7 on break points against Rafa in the Monte-Carlo semis.

“If someone was tweeting while pooping, would that be called twooping?” – Andy Roddick, waxing philosophical, er, juvenile, via Twitter.

“I have goosebumps right now.” – Jelena Jankovic, after her tie-clinching victory over Svetlana Kuznetsova moved Serbia into it’s first-ever Fed Cup final.