Tennis Fashion: Aren’t we taking this Aussie thing a little too far?

After giving Roger and Rafa Southern Cross jackets, Nike decides to dress Maria Sharapova in green and gold for the Oz Open.
It looks like lingerie, but I suppose that’s the point.
 

 
Meanwhile, Adidas is turning Ana Ivanovic into Uma Thurman. 
 

 

 
And Dina inherits the Heninian tradition of making pink look androgenically unpink. 
 

 
So uninspired. 
Picture credit: Tennisforum, PWP.com

Tennis Fashion: Die, Adidas.

How do you confuse your opponent on a tennis court? By dressing in the same frigging colour as the tennis ball of course!
Adidas’s S/S range, complete with manboobs.
 

 
Please don’t tell me Mandy’s gonna wear this colour.
And Nando in collars? Now I can totally relate to Andre’s pyromaniac tendencies.
 

 

 
By the way, Maria Sharapova’s Oz Open dress [...]

Passing Thoughts: Jumping Ships

1. It’s official, Andy Murray has left Fred Perry for adidas.
It’s a pity, he had spent all those years wearing whatever potato sac Fred Perry gave him, and just when the designs got better this year, Mandy’s leaving.
In an official statement, adidas confirmed that Andy will wear the Competition line and the Barricade.
 
adidas VP Global Sports [...]

What they wore: Maria Sharapova.

To be honest, tennis this week has been largely uninspiring. Olivier Rochus is in another ATP final, but who the fuck cares?
Can we stop pretending that tennis without Federer or Nadal can still be awesome and look back instead at some of the outfits of the season? Starting Masha Fierce, whose season is essentially over, [...]

Shop til you drop: A Shopaholics Guide to the Tennis World.

With Christmas nearing, Roger Federer has released his annual calendar for 2010, all proceeds to the RF Foundation. Having found myself bizarrely in the “Shop” section of RF.com for the first time, I decided to check out the stores of other players to see how the Fed fares in online retail.
 
1. Shop Federer
Surprisingly understocked, the [...]

Picket Fence Vid: Is her last name Win?

Sometimes I think it would do wonders for her popularity if Maria was harmless, dumb and sweet.
But as it turns out, Sharpie’s sharp, cynical and made of bucketloads of win. FLOVE.
 

 
Marry me.

Beijing: Heh? Did someone give Melanie Oudin growth hormones?

 
Sharapova took out Baby Sharapova, otherwise known as Victoria Azarenka, 63 67 75.
What can I say? It was fierce. Masha Fierce. It was Big Babe tennis at its most hilarious best. It was filled with double faults, operatic grunts, and scorching groundstrokes.
And drama, did I mention drama?
Is a 2-5 0-30 comeback in the third set gripping [...]

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.
 

 

Tokyo: Anti-Climax.

There was a sense of symmetry in Tokyo today, as Maria Sharapova won her first title since coming back from shoulder surgery at the same place where she won her first tour title as a teenager.
Anti-climatically, the win came by way of JJ’s retirement, down 2-5 in the first set, citing a wrist injury. But [...]

Tokyo: It’s ON.

Despite witnessing the WTA shithouse earlier in the tournament, I got the final I wanted.
Glitter Queen v Masha Fierce. It is ON.
 

Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images
 
Although, given their respective semifinals, the match is actually a lot less exciting than it looks on paper.
After licking my lips at the juicy semifinal match-ups, they both turned out [...]