USO Day 1 Wrap: ConFederercy of Radness.

It’s Day 1 folks, apart from drooling over Federer’s “beautiful lines” and his outfit, which turned out to be pleasantly stark against the colour of the court, there ain’t much to say. Or is there?
Firstly, the obligatory drooling session starts … now:
 

 
I will never get over his uncanny balance…
 

 
Or the aesthetic value of his movement…
 

 
Slobber [...]

Aussies Update: Comeback.

The theme for Australian tennis this year: comebacks.
And the latest to join the comeback trail is Alicia Molik, who will be making her singles comeback at a small $US25,000 Pro Circuit event in Darwin next month, almost a year since her retirement.
 
‘‘She’s hoping to [play in Darwin], that’s the plan,’’ her agent, Alice Estcourt of [...]

Aussies Update: yeah we suck.

 

 
 
What an embarrassment: 
 
AUSSIE tennis bad boy Brydan Klein will undergo a racial sensitivity course after accepting a six-month ban from the ATP for a racial slur.
 Klein, a former junior Australian Open champion, was slapped with the hefty suspension and fined $US10,000 for calling South African Raven Klaasen a “f—ing kaffir” during a qualifying match [...]

Aussies Update

Little Olivia Rogowska went out in a close one to Kateryna Bondarenko 26 75 75. Didn’t watch the match, but you can read about it here – clickey. 
 
The more sensational news was of course Jelena Dokic’s retirement against Dementieva. Does Dokic only reserve her best tennis for the slams these days? Because since the Australian [...]

The Aussies Report

I thought there was a chance that no Australian would make it through to second round at the French Open this year. I shouldn’t have worried, because we’ve done reasonably well against some tricky opponents.
 
As everyone surely knows by now, Hewitt def Karlovic, proving that the man’s incapable of winning or losing a match in [...]

crushed bricks, smashed hopes.

Trivia: who in the WTA has the highest winning/loss ratio this year? (answer at the bottom of the post) 
 
Not much I can say about the men’s draw – take a wild guess as to who I think is going to win.
 
The only thing I might add is that the Draw Gods have not been kind [...]

The WOW-Factor

Holy crap. Is this really Jelena Dokic?
 

 
For anyone living in Melbourne, grab the latest issue of Sports & Style with your Age newspaper for a feature on Jelena Dokic.
 
As is the case with anything involving Jelena Dokic, the issue didn’t come without its fair share of dramas. The Age reported today that not only did [...]

Out of Hibernation/Fed Cup rant.

Yes, I am out of hibernation, and feelin’ good, albeit with a blocked nose and a sore throat. But hey, on the plus side, it gives me a sexy phone voice! 
 
Is it just me or is it almost impossible to find coverage of the Fed Cup these days? Despite all its talk about supporting women’s [...]

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 [...]

I totally had tears in my eyes.

Don’t judge me. I’m a she, and we girls are hormonal creatures. But Jelena Dokic, she still has her implosions, she’s still as neurotic as ever, and she could’ve made it much easier on herself, but she battled her way through a 3-set match, and outclassed her much higher ranked opponent. She deserved every minute [...]