5 posts tagged “tennis”
As any good neo-modern self publisher knows one must keep on these blogs of ours consistently! Please excuse my negligence in doing so over the past week. I've been doing a little work for a clever new wiki based, built by locals for locals guide, called Povo. I think it's a fantastic site with a great group of people (the CEO, Max Metral, is known for his work on FIrefly which was sold to Microsoft in the mid 90s), and will grow to become a dominant player in the refined web 2.0 world where user generated content will create an honest and believably transparent guide to all kinds of consumer businesses.
And Roger Federer, who I said I thought could win the US Open in my last post, went on to do just that in fine style. Nice one Roger!
And, despite suffering a heartbreaking ninth inning loss last night, the Red Sox have closed the gap against the Devil Rays and look poised to steal the AL East division title as the regular season wraps up. The Yankees, meanwhile, have slipped to fourth place; therre will be no fall baseball in the Bronx for the final season in the house that Ruth built. While I wont be shedding any tears on this point, it would've been nice to beat them on their home turf in said turf's final season.
I've also been playing loads of squash while I am staying in my folks place here in Massachusetts, and am greatful to have found such a nice group of people to be able to play with. I'm forging onward with business school application prep, too, trying to relearn High School math to bolster my GMAT score. Fun! ;-)
And of course the lovely Sarah Palin has shaken up the presidential race. Seems the polsters are sayig, at least now in the post convetion blitz, that things are neck & neck. I am so sick of the intesne coverage of this election and micro analysis of everything that I'm personally just looking forward to the debates as a hopeful return to some actual discussion about important things that the president might actually do and might actually have meaningful power over. I try not to get into too muc politics on here because one of the things I hate the most about this election is internet politics jockeys searching out useful tidbits of media heightened minutiae to use to support their well entrenched partisan beliefs (whatever side they are on) and trash the other side. Let's face it: most of the people in the country knew what aprty they'd vote for regardless of the candidate chosen before any of the discussions actually started, and the smear tactics of the online public are not intellectual or constructive, and ultimately drag the dialogue further into the partisan mud.
Oh and this picture of Gov. Palin is fake, silly fools who believed it was real need a quick edjumication in the art of the ph0t0-cH0p!:
Now that he's bested Roger Federer in both the French Open and Wimbledon, Rafa Nadal enters the US Open as the man on top. I'm hoping Federer gets him, though; I've always loved Fed and would like to see him break the grand slams record of 14 held by Pete Sampras.
Roger thinks he can do it! So do I.
I mentioned Ana in my first Wimbledon post, and we were all sad to see her get upset in the tournament for obvious reasons. Fear not, for the fine folk at FHM have filled the void.
Novak Djokovic, world #3 and Australian Open champion, was upset by Marat Safin in straight sets in the 2nd round today. I grew fond of him watching the Australian and blogged about his impersonations of other players in an earlier Wimbledon post. It's too bad he went down, I thought he'd have a great semifinal showdown with Federer.
I love tennis and think it's been vastly underappreciated in the US since Pete Sampras retired and the Williams sisters faded from the limelight. ESPN's preview article shows that Federer's drive to win his sixth straight at The All England Club will be tough, with a pontetial semi-final match against the talented young Serbian Novak Djokovic who beat Federer in the semis of the Australian Open earlier this year en route to a 4 set championship victory over French upstart Jo Wilfried Tsonga who, in addition to having one of the better names in sports, is injured and can't play in Wimbledon.
I'm torn by this as I love Federer, easily one of the great sportsmen of all time, and would like to see him catch Sampra. It's also easy to pull for these young guys like Djokovic. Check out this amazing clip of him impersonating basically every player on the ATP tour:
As for the ladies, Ana Ivanovic, another of the "Serbian wave", gets the top seed for the first time after winning at Roland Garros. I don't really like women's tennis that much but Ivanovic needs to get a little real estate here because she has much awesum for obvious reasons:
