Passing Thoughts: post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Hello there! 
Excuse the intermittent blogging of late, I have 4 exams coming up in the next 6 days. Part of the deal with being a student is that you party, play, drink and procrastinate for the majority of the year, then comes every November, when life is a hell-hole and one that’s kicking your ass.
Never [...]

Doha: Fortune favours the glamour girls.

If you had asked me to pick the semifinalists at the beginning of the week, I would not have picked Venus, Serena, Wozniacki and JJ.
You see – the Tennis Gods aren’t usually this kind to me, but somehow, they’ve given me my dream match-ups. I officially fear for karma next week in Basel. 
 

 
With Caroline Wozniacki [...]

Doha: It’s like waterboarding, but pretty.

There’s only one word to describe the Wozniacki v Zvonareva match – torture.
For once, I watched a Vera match where the drama came from the other end of the court, as Caroline Wozniacki collapsed in pain, points away from closing out the match.
It turns out that that Danish Delight is made of steelier stuff than [...]

Doha: Not with a bang but a whimper.

 
So it ends like this. There will be no final shootout for the top spot between Serena and Safina. Dina made life easier for all of us by quitting her opening match against JJ after 13 minutes, citing a a lower back injury.
“My body just gave up, and I couldn’t handle the pain anymore.”
Back pains are a [...]

Picspam: this is a fucking PR nightmare.

Did no one in the WTA realise that having Caroline Wozniacki pose in shorts next to a faceless woman under a black burqa would produce images that sit uncomfortably with the Western eye?
 

 
I’m not going to get on my high horse and talk about the rights of women and what not. Mainly because I think [...]

Picspam: Catwoman and the Reject Bridesmaids of the WTA

Is it time for Doha already? The WTA year-end championships gets underway this week over in Woop Woop, as the players glammed for the draw ceremony. 
By “glammed up”, I mean they all went through their gloryboxes and practiced the aisle walk.
 

 

 
In times like these, I miss having Maria Sharapova in the top 8. She can [...]

The Week In-Between: Yeah Right.

Caroline Wozniacki retired against Kremer 75 50. The wondrous thing about it all is that she was covering the court like water but limping in between points.
 

 
Either 25 tournaments a year really is too much for the 19-year-old to handle, or someone decided that instead of pulling out of Luxembourg altogether, she’ll turn up, [...]

WTA: 1-14.

That is the combined title win/loss record for Stosur and Schiavone, who happen to be our two finalists in Osaka this week.
So who wants to win? 
I’ve got my fingers crossed for Sam, who “deserves” a title at least to validate what’s been a breakthrough year for her, not to mention a semifinal well-played against Caroline [...]

USO Day 14: the Wildest Card Ever.

 
Kimmaculate, Kimpressive, Kimpossible.
Kim Clijsters beat Caroline Wozniacki 75 63 to take her second slam title – something that I didn’t think would ever happen. I expected Kim to do well, to get into the top 10 on her comeback, but to win a slam in her third tournament back? 
 

 
Despite my praises of Clijsters’s newfound [...]

USO Day 13: Back to Bedlam.

It rained cats and dogs over Flushing Meadows today as the tennis world waited around for some actual tennis action and complained about the lack of a roof. And when we finally got to see some tennis, it was blissful bedlam. 
 
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Conscious of the fact that the way the match ended overshadowed the [...]