if there is one thing i wish we had gotten to do in new york, it would have been to attend a US Open match. one of the random danish guys i met in the hostel was talking about how he went to watch a federer match, and now as i watch him shrug off the best that andy roddick has to throw at him, i want to witness him live even more.
it's pretty fortunate that i've been around to see some great athletes in their prime. gretzky, jordan, woods and federer, that's pretty ridiculous. i'm proud of the fact that i will one day be able to say i saw these guys doing their thing.
some might argue federer isn't the best tennis player ever. but watching him play, it's not so much the fact that he wins so much: it's how he wins that's impressive. the dude is a tennis robot. it's unbelievable.
i also must admit that watching tennis so much this year has given me a somewhat greater appreciation for the sport. there's a beauty about individual competition that i can only parallel to boxing, where in one match you have nobody but yourself to hide behind. it's not like team sports where you can have an off night and still contribute -- in tennis, you have to bring it consistently, every night.
other random notes:
- venus williams has lost a tremendous amount of weight. she now looks borderline attractive.
- i've said it before but i'll say it again: roger federer's girlfriend is really not that special. he could definitely do better.
- tennis is perhaps the only sport where what you wear while you play is arguably just as important as how well you play. it's the closesting thing the sporting world has to a fashion runway.
- i miss new york.
*edit scoop jackson bit my post.
how does this guy get famous simply by writing in the most hyperbolic fashion he can imagine? how many things can possibly be the best thing ever when comparing apples to oranges?
nobody has ever stolen my ideas so blatantly in the history of story stealing.
ever.
6 comments:
yay tennis! yea, that would'be been cool, but it also would've meant travelling all the way there with no guarentee of getting tickets or seeing federer. just try to catch him next year when hopefully he's in toronto. meantime, i must get good enough to deserve wearing a tennis outfit without being made fun of. haha
uhhhhh. borderline attractive is quite a stretch, even with the weight loss.
venus and her sister will always have an undeniable man-ish quality.
oh snap. take that Williams sisters
but that Djokovic fellow could give Federer a run for his money, looks like (if Roger makes it to the finals)
but at least now, if you put a bag on venus' head, her body is pretty decent.
serena's body is like...freakish.
i probably shouldn't talk about bags on heads though, it might get cammie upset...
shut up......loser.
eh?
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