Passing thoughts: FREEDOM! FREEEEEDOMMM! FREEEEEEDOMDOMDOMDOMMM!

What’s that smell in the air, you ask? It’s the scent of freedom folks! And summer! Endless days of heat and sun and lounging around doing absoluf*ckinglutely nothing, but enjoying every minute of it.  
And yes, tennis too! Doots is back in action and ready to frazzle over Hairy Roger and the group of Death-Eaters [...]

Quotable Quotes: *Someone* is not happy.

 
“If the ATP covered for Agassi at the time then I think that’s dreadful,” Nadal said in Madrid as he prepared to receive a civic award.
“The only thing I can say is that if they covered at that moment for the player and punished others for doing the same kind of thing then that would [...]

Quotable Quotes: Real prediction, false prophet.

I came across this freakish gem today, written back in 2001 by Chris Bowers, right before a certain R16 Wimbledon match.
Now that’s what I call a real prediction. 
 
So just who is going to stop Pete Sampras at Wimbledon? The great American has lost just once on centre court, and in the 1996 quarter-finals he was [...]

Quotable Quotes: Yeah yeah yeah…

 “We’ve been saying for a long time that it’s tough to compete 11 months a year, yet we actually end up finishing the season a little bit later now,” Roddick told the Independent newspaper.
“I don’t think it’s coincidental that you see Murray and Roger a little bit hurt now, or Rafa missing four months in [...]

Tokyo/Beijing: You too, boys?

 
The boys caught a bad bout of the upset bug today as Roddick and Del Potro both fell in straight sets to qualifiers Kubot and Roger-Vasselin. What a shi-
Oh hang on, it’s the ATP. ATP = depth. WTA = shithouse.
Got it. 
What depth in men’s tennis! All just further proof of my conviction that the quality [...]

Picspam: Desperate times…

You know times are dark if I’m picspamming about Nole playing golf in Beijing…
 

 
Or perving Rafa’s presscon facial massages …
 

 
Temptations. They are everywhere. 
For the first time in my life, I can safely say that Andy Roddick looked adorkable at the Beijing Airport. 
That freaks me out.
 

 

Withdrawal Symptoms? A Fedophile’s guide to surviving the next month.

As you no doubt know by now, Roger Federer has pulled out of both Tokyo and Shanghai to give his body a well-deserved break.
While Federer fans may be comforting themselves with the thought that it’s all for the best, there is an inevitable sense of headlessness, seeing that the next month of tennis has just [...]

USO Day 6: Black Saturday.

There was something wild and burning in NYC today, leaving many of the top seeds singed, scorched or flat-out cremated. 
 

 
Black Saturday got off to an ominous start as Roger Federer, seemingly in control of the first set serving at 4-2 40-0, lost serve with a string of forehand errors and a double fault.
From then on, [...]

Picspam: No Serena, Roger will not boogey with you. But I will. *boogeys*

REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine
 
Roger, Serena, ARod and Masha Fierce were among many players that turned up for the annual Arthur Ashe Kids Day, giving Dootsie the perfect opportunity to picspam and drool over so much radness captured in one photograph:
 
REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine
 

Q. Have you spoken to Andy about the Wimbledon final since that match? What was that conversation [...]

FACT: Andy Roddick exists to give awesome interviews.

It starts awesome. Once they got started on American sports, I’m sure they were still speaking English – I just didn’t understand a single word of it. 
 

 
Aside from that, I actually hate Letterman’s interviews with tennis players. Dude understands nothing, and inevitably, they end up talking about big serves.
Original. Really.