Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:00 am EST
Game Point: Cuddling, bobby pins and swine flu
Game Point is Busted Racquet's roundup of facts, figures and links about the tennis world.
Love -- Be careful, Gael Monfils (right). I'm pretty sure Michael Phelps got in trouble for a similar type of picture. Andre Agassi finds nothing wrong with this though. (Thanks to Down The Line for the heads up.)
15 -- Speaking of Agassi, the meth use drew the headlines, but perhaps the most shocking revelation in his upcoming book is that his famed mullet was actually a hairpiece. It's not shocking that he wore one, but rather that he chose to wear one that looked like this.
Before the 1990 French Open final, Agassi writes, his weave began to fall apart in the shower and he had to send his brother out to find bobby pins to keep it in place. Ahh, just like Rene Lacoste in 1925.
30 -- Maria Sharapova may be dating Los Angeles Lakers backup guard Sasha Vujacic. The two were said to be seen "cuddling" at a U2 concert in Los Angeles. Sharapova had previously been seen with Charlie Ebersol (son of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol) and Adam Levine, the lead singer of Maroon 5. From a product of nepotism to frontman of a wimpy band to a guy best known as Kobe Bryant's valet, what would be the next logical progression? B-list actor? I wonder if Topher Grace is available.
40 -- Tommy Haas has the swine flu. He is reported to be feeling better and attributes his quick recovery to his fine physical form. On a totally unrelated note, here is a list of tournaments Haas has withdrew from in the past three years due to injury: Stockholm (2009), Shanghai (2009), Montreal (2009), Monte Carlo (2008), Indian Wells (2008), Wimbledon (2007), Rome (2007).
Game -- It's shaping up to be a battle at the top of men's tennis in 2010 between Nike and adidas. Andy Murray will sign with adidas and begin wearing its clothes next year, joining Novak Djokovic and Fernando Verdasco and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The Scot had been with the British company Fred Perry since he turned professional and had hoped to stick with them through next year, the 100th anniversary of Perry's birth. But the money (five years, 10 million pounds) was too great to turn down. Now Murray joins adidas, which will hope to see a player wearing a three-striped logo hoisting some trophies in 2010 to make up for this year, when Nike players (Nadal, Federer, del Potro) swept the Grand Slams.
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The medical advice is that no special attention is needed unless you display some extreme symptoms such as continual vomiting or if you turn blue or grey.
Tommy, dude, get a grip!
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That is SO funny! I don't know whether your response was REALLY from "the" Chris Chase or not, but I do know that writers, by nature, are usually very vain and normally do want to know what others have to say about their work.
Since we have this "interactive" thing called the internet, I imagine he does read them as I have seen "someone" named "Chris" respond before. We have no way of knowing unless he identifies himself~and then, who knows?
It is funny how posters think these writers are the "Wizard of Oz" or some other entity living in their little cubicles typing away laughing at the effect their masterful creativity called "writing" has on "regular" folks~that would be you and me tempest :-)
I personally like Chris' acerbic style of writing, but I did not appreciate his paragraph about Tommy Haas.
I thought it was totally out of bounds since Tommy has a LONG history of injuries & horrific family tragedies which have taken him away from his game for extended periods of time. Tommy is 31 (I think) therefore he is one of the "old warriors"~a scrappy fighter, one of the "lion-hearted" in men's tennis today~Just because he hasn't won the "Holy Grail" of tennis..a Major, he deserves no less respect.
He's "earned" that illusive thing so many of the "youngsters" think they can buy, trade, sell or steal~RESPECT!
I think what "Chris" said showed little respect for this man's professionalism and tenacity over a solid tennis career. To me it sounded harsh!
Having said that, I think more writers "SHOULD" respond to (decent) posts, it would help their widen & deepen their perspective as writers, give them a totally different perspective for the sport, "ours", and it certainly would help make the readers feel included.
It goes both ways~
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JUST KIDDING!!!!!!
Nice to know the author is commenting :-)
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Serena, her PR people, and apologists should be made to realize the gravity of her offense. By not addressing the victim by her human name, Serena's purported apology sought to make Serena real and human, while the victim's value as a human being was further degraded. It was actually a continuation of the assault.
I think neither the press or we should not let the tour gloss over what happened.
We can't do anything about Andre at this point, because he obviously timed his revelations when his infractions have become moot. Let's just keep in mind that he lied to get off that time, so what would keep him from lying in his biography to make us believe that he didn't use drugs in his later, important matches, cheating his opponents, the WTA , and the public? Divulging part of the truth is one way of easing one's guilt feelings, and somehow making ones' self feel he has "come clean". Has Andre come clean in his biography? Or is it another hairpiece he has decided to wear?
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Well, that makes two of us who enjoy Chris' style of writing. Next time I read his articles and do not agree with something, I know that there's a different motive behind it and not just some guy trying to rattle cages. Now his readers know what he's about. I believe the key word for Chris is dialogue. Looks to me like he takes it as constructive cirticism. He'll take note if you're civil about it and probably shrug it off if it comes out like the trash we've seen in some of the other blogs.
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I am also skeptical about Andre's admitting to meth use - but only in 1997. Like you mentioned, if he lied before, couldn't he be lying now so that his grand slams, etc. are not called into question? When a bombshell like this is dropped, you begin to question everything that comes out of the person's mouth.
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