The Week In-Between: Seeing Doubles.

Marat lost to Baby-Marat. I’m sorry, it was my fault. I shouldn’t have paid any attention to him. I’ll look away now. 
By the way, please tell me we still have Paris? 
Okay, looking away now. No peeking.
 
In better news, up your glitter supplies for Doha as JJ secures the final spot to make up the top [...]

USO Day 7: Tears and Fears.

REUTERS/Shaun Best
 
As bummed as I am about Venus getting booted out so early in the tournament, I must admit Kim got to me with her sincere reactions to the 6-0 0-6 6-4 victory. 
How can you not want to reserve your seat on the Comeback Train after this? 
 
Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images
 
Tennis-wise, it wasn’t fantastic until [...]

Practice makes perfect eyecandies #2.

The Sod is shirtless. Why? WHY?! 
My life is full of unexpected horrors. Ditto to Vera’s porcelain six-pack.
 

 
Nice to see Reeshie out there practicing. With ARod, apparently.
 
Pictures via @reen426
 

Cincy Tidbits: Double Faults are the New Black.

All the “It-girls” are doing it – Dementieva, Sharapova and Ivanovic. Sure they are! You totally want to double fault your way into oblivion just like them.
Czink def. Ivanovic 7-6(6) 7-5.
Yes, that would be Melinda friggin Czink.
Ana served at 51%, with 2 aces, 11 double faults, right after she announced that she’s experimenting with her [...]

Order and Chaos: Picking the Impossible.

I just can’t shake of this nasty feeling I have for Roger Federer this Wimbledon. Why? Roger Federer is majorly due for an early round upset, that’s why. That 20 consecutive semifinal streak is just a sitting duck, a gross statistical anomaly waiting to be snapped. It’s not rational of course for me to suppose [...]

Partay!

The girls got together for the Ralph Lauren/Sony Ericsson pre-Wimbledon party. But what’s a party without Maria Sharapova? A fashion disaster, that’s what.
 
Vera Zoom Zoom looked fabulous in the dress. It was just too saggy, and the shoes make her look like she has duck feet. I feel ya pain with the wrinkly dress though, [...]

The gorgeous, the not-so-gorgeous, and the downright pervy.

The pre-Wimbledon photoshoot of the WTA glamour gals. No Dinara, no Sharapova and no Jelena Jankovic in sight. Why oh why?
 
It started off HOT.
 

 
Then a couple of old men cooled down the heat.
 

 
… and then it got really creepy. Richard Branson’s breathing down Venus’ neck, Larry Scott’s left hand suspiciously behind Vera. Guuurrr-osse! 
Anne Keothavong is [...]

Not an upset, and not a surprise.

You might’ve noticed that Ana Ivanovic lost to Nadia Petrova, or maybe not. Ivanovic hasn’t been all that noticeable lately unless you subscribe to the Serbian Hello magazine. The most pathetic part is that we can’t even call it an upset since Nadia is seeded No 7 in Eastbourne and Ana is … unseeded? Have we really [...]

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 Second Coming

I swear this is the last of my WTA rants, as I plan to go on a soul-searching journey for WTA love during the clay season. Oh yeth…  but the girls aren’t making it any easier for me to feel the love. Safina, Zvonareva, JJ and Ivanovic all out by Round 32,  honestly, HONESTLY!
 
Mind you, all of them [...]