Let Me Here Ya Say UGH!!

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azarenka, djokovic, federer, ivanovic, kirilenko, larcher de brito, murray, nadal, schiavone, serena, sharapova, venus, wozniacki, zvonareva

Tennis players/commentators/journalists/fans love to do one thing collectively. They love to COMPLAIN. More complaining goes on in tennis than praising. Well, that may not be true. I’ll say that complaining is just as prevalent as praising. Tennisheads complain about a multitude of things. Some of these complaints will go on for months and even years. One such complaint is about the one thing that will probably NEVER go away:

Grunting.

The Error of the Fist

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ivanovic, kvitova

The fist pump is an integral part of tennis. Everyone loves to fist pump. Some players have it down to an art. It’s a way of showing that you’re fighting. It’s a way of letting your opponent know that you’re in it to win it. It’s a way to show that you’re still in the match. It’s also a way to intimidate your opponents.

What a fist pump is NOT is a way to say “Yes! He/She made an error! I won the point!” That’s just not good sportsmanship.

I Could Not Resist

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armani, nadal

My blog is devoted to tennis in general… but at times my objectivity will shine right on through. Behold: Rafa, the Most Beautiful Man to Hold A Tennis Racquet

Making underwear look sexier every day. :3

The Curious Case of Tennis Lingo

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a. radwanska, ivanovic, serena, sharapova, stosur, twitter, venus, wozniacki

The Perfect Serve

Avid (and sometimes rabid) fans of tennis have developed different sayings all their own. These sayings are usually seen the most in forums and quite frequently among those involved in the tennis Twitterverse. To the common bloke who occasionally watches tennis, they might stumble upon a conversation and think we are speaking gibberish.

Tennis lingo is more or less a group of metaphors and euphemisms for the actions of tennis players or ways to describe a match. For instance, “pulling a Serena” can be interpreted as fighting back from a deficit unheard of and managing to come out the one on top.

Another one, and my least favorite, is referring to a match as a “WTA match,” whether it is actually a match of the WTA or not. Why? Because it has negative connotations that seem to imply that women can’t play the game of tennis… well.

And that isn’t true. At all.

And Now We Wait…

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djokovic, espn, federer, fish, jankovic, murray, nadal, petkovic, sharapova, us open, zvonareva

Cincinnati ended almost as expected, considering who was left by the end of it. I’m not to pleased with the way the men’s final ended, though; Novak Djokovic versus Andy Murray. The women’s final was far more entertaining; some of the best (and worst) tennis all year; a resurgent Jelena Jankovic versus a formidable Maria Sharapova. Even the doubles finals were entertaining. And now…

… we wait.