Learning to scrape through

I’m on a self-imposed “Love-Thy-Djoker” campaign. No more Djokovic-bashing, Top 10 Quotations of Mama Djokovic, Fugly Drop-Shots Mocking Squad or the Djokovic Retirement Watchdog on this blog. They say you never know what you got until it’s gone, and the same can be said for the top 4 of the men’s game right now. If [...]

Fanfuckingtastic.

If Dubai sans Fed, Rafa and ARod wasn’t depressing enough, I woke up to the withdrawal of Andy Murray because of a viral infection. Fanfuckingtastic. And Nole, if you don’t win this … 
 
Good news if you’re a Djokovic fan though, dude seems to have found a good rhythm yesterday against Cilic, one of his most [...]

Missing Maria

This just goes to show how long it’s been since I last read a blog post on Tennis.com, or went on ESPN to check out what’s going on. But with WTA tennis utterly boring, and the Fedal out of action in Dubai this week, I decided to scroll through tennisforum to see what’s going on [...]

Early Wrap-up: Remember me, bitch?

Despite having 5 tournaments on this week, it feels like we haven’t had much tennis. Or maybe it’s just that we haven’t had much good tennis. In any case, I’m doing a small weekly wrap up now while some tournaments are still underway. 
 
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Okay, get this – it’s not very often that I root for Novak [...]

All hail the sisters!

So it wasn’t their best match against each other, but compared to the forgotten semifinal between Razzano and Kanepi, or the matches we’ve been getting all week in Dubai, it was pretty damn good, and by the end of it, it was Venus Williams that surged ahead to lead their rivalry 10-9. Despite her poor [...]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Caroline Wozniacki became the second player this week to avenge her Melbourne loss by defeating, wait – make that pulverising, Jelena Dokic in straight sets, 61 62. She followed up this victory with a 61 76(1) dismissal of Bremond. Nice work Woz. I was a little concerned last week after her early exit, but perhaps [...]

Roger Federer M.I.A

This is a bit disturbing actually. Federer has pulled out of both Dubai and the Davis Cup as a precautionary measure for his back injury. With Nadal and Murray back in action last week, and Djokovic rejoining the tour in Marseille this week, Fed’s the only one mysteriously absent. I’m bored, stop crying Roger and [...]

Would you like me to wrap that up for you?

So I never did my usual 10,000 word tirade for the Australian Open. Truth be told, the tournament’s taken a bit more out of me than expected. To go from not knowing anything about what happened after Round 2 to images of Roger Federer sobbing his nose off on TV was a bit like diving [...]

The Match Denied

Rotterdam Results:

Rafa def Monfils 64 64
Murray def Ancic 61 62

 
“Ohhh yeth”. This is the match that I felt we were denied of at the Australian Open this year. Mind you, the semifinal that we did get more than made up for it. But Rafa v Murray match ups intrigue me more than Fed v Murray match [...]

dootsiez’s youtube comeback

Some of you might’ve noticed my youtube account was suspended by some stingy arses last month. Never fear, dootsiez will not go down this easily. A new account is up under the name dootsiezreincarnated. And to start this account off, I’ve uploaded two amazing shots by Federer from the 2007 Dubai Championships. 
 
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