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Rivalries Of The Decade.

1. Fed vs Nadal.

2. Sampras vs Agassi.

3. Nadal vs Djokovic.

4. Fed vs Nalbandian.

5. Rafter vs Agassi.

6. Safin vs Santoro.

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That spicy curry can really blow you up.

Tag Heuer drops Tiger from U.S. ads. From Sarah. Thanks.

SARAH

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Notable 2009 off-the-court events. From Sarah. Thanks.

SARAH

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Profession most embarrassed with this Pussy Tiger drama.

Paparazzis?

With an iron-clad guarantee of a massive pay-day along with the technological advancement of today, how stupidly inefficient do you have to be to not have a single shot of Tiger at his hiding cave?

There should be a running video with a commentary on Tiger’s every move inside his cave by now.

If you can risk being charged criminally for pursuing Princess Diana, what kind of threat is holding you back here? Golf clubs?

Just freaking get in there – we don’t care how – and blow the freaking cover. Geeeeeezzzzzz!!!!!! Either that or surrender your licences NOW.

How do you explain this?

It’s common knowledge that to excel in sports at the professional level, you have to be in top physical shape.

But how to you explain instances when an athlete, who is injured or sick and elects to play for whatever reason, far supersedes his own ‘healthy’ standards?

Kobe Bryant’s index finger on the shooting hand has been fractured for the last two games, yet he scored a season high 42 points at one of them and hit a buzzer beater in the second one while scoring 39 points at 60% field goal percentage.

Similarly Jordan had games when his eyes were all glazed up with flu or whatever and he could barely stand yet he produced one of his best performances guaranteeing a win for his team.

Is it the added accolade that comes with these situations triggering the amazing run or the skill set is so versatile that physical deficiency can be more than compensated for, at least for a short run?

Shouldn’t we then be busy breaking bones left, and center on the tennis circuit to spice things up?

Tiger Woods’ Sponsors: Will Any Stick With Him?

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Shouldn’t Gasquet be forced to kiss druggies ONLY if he fails to capitalize on this second chance?

For rock people, he has been cleared of all doping allegations to be allowed back on the tour. If you have just crawled out from under that rock, click freaking here.

With the potential he has, this second shot at life should be looked at a massive blessing in disguise. To ensure something gets stirred somewhere, this release should accompany an automatic clause forcing banishment with druggies – not necessarily of the sex of his choice.

Sometimes you HAVE to go to the precipice to get those juices flowing – in the right direction. Considering how close he came to forced retirement he shouldn’t need any other stimulus if he is really what he has been cracked out to be all along.

If he fails to make anything of this new lease of life, that suspension may come back to haunt him as that ‘taking him out of misery’ truck. How stupid would you feel to just barely maintain the same pathetic level of play you were droning on before this episode – much less falling couple of notches?

This is the reason why mental aspect of the game far outweighs the physical or any other ‘al’ BS.

Federer, Serena earn high honors. From DK. Thanks.

DK

Check out the summary of the year by an excellent tennis analyst Jon Wertheim:

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This last part, titled “And with a nod to Esquire’s Dubious Achievement Awards…”, is priceless – check out the subheadings.

My apologies if already posted…

Roddick and the ‘last time’. From Stella. Thanks.

STELLA

FOR MONIQUE
American Andy Roddick reveals to DEUCE the last time…

I cooked for myself or others?
This morning: breakfast. I made eggs. I started to cook probably a lot more in the last year or so. I’m not claiming to be any good but… I don’t really do anything too great, but for a specialty I probably just put some vegetables together or something like that.

I flew economy class?
Five days ago (26th October). I was on Jet Blue from New York to Austin. I don’t remember exactly when I stopped flying economy; it was probably around my second year on tour.

I met a childhood idol?
Muhammad Ali is the one person I haven’t met that I would like to. The last person from my childhood, that was one of my favourites, that I met, was Michael Jordan last year. He was playing in a group behind us in golf and I left my putter on the green behind us accidentally on purpose and he grabbed it and I was sort of walking towards the green to retrieve it. So he recognised me and said “nice to meet you” and all the stuff, it was pretty cool.

“Pretty much the only time I ever wear a suit is to the formal Davis Cup dinners.”I shared a hotel room with another player?
Oh, that’s got to be juniors!

I had to pay to hire a tennis court?
It had to be 10 years ago or something like that… Actually no, it’s not, that’s not true! When it rains here in Austin sometimes they have a very limited number of indoor courts, there’s pretty much two in the city. So when we go there we’re happy to pay for our hour just like everyone else, as long as they can sneak us in to actually get on them.

I dressed formally for a dinner?
Pretty much the only time I ever wear a suit is to the formal Davis Cup dinners, so I guess earlier this year.

I lost a bet?
It happens all the time! I think I lost a bet on a Fantasy Football game last week. I think it was $50 or something.

I sang karaoke / sang in front of an audience?
Car singing doesn’t count right? (laughing) I don’t know that I’ve ever sang in front of an audience… I did some karaoke, but I think it’s been a couple of years. The Bryan brothers always try to get me to sing with their band, but I’ve retired from the Bryan Bros. Band.

I had to show ID/credential at a tournament?
Oh, all the time! At the US Open, all the time. And at Wimbledon, because they make you scan in all the time so you have to show up with a credential every time. I was behind Martina Navratilova, she had to show it and she’s only won it like 48 times! We normally figure it out, but I lose my credential probably on a bi-weekly basis, along with the room key!

I slipped on my diet?
I slipped up a little bit after the US Open. I had a little bit of time off so I was not scared of Mexican food for a couple of weeks. For about 10 months (this year) I was fine and then the last two months have been a little dicey.

“I try to buy up basically presents in bulk so you get a nice present that should be worth three or four presents.”I played a practical joke in the locker room?
This is just mean, but it was the attendant in China. Every time you brushed up against the locker it would make some beeping noise and they would have to run down. One day, I was kind of laughing and I was doing it over and over again and the guy was running back and forth (laughing). People play jokes on me all the time, like putting something smelly in your locker… The worst culprits are the kids who work in the locker room in Cincinnati. I have had an ongoing prank for about five years so they always get me pretty good. It’s not printable what they do, though!

I walked my dog?
Last night. I took Billie [after Billie Jean King] down to the end of the street and back, she has a place where she does her business. My buddy, Neil, takes care of her when I’m away. It’s kind of like a community dog amongst my friends and Neil looks after her when I’m gone.

I forgot a family member/close friend’s birthday?
I try to buy up presents in bulk so you get a nice present that should be worth three or four presents and then I request a free pass for the next time I forget! I’m good at getting them, but I figure if you get them something nice it buys you a couple of forgets.

Being recognised helped me?
Last night (Friday 30th October). We went to a Haunted House in Austin and the line had to be a couple of hours long and we were able to get in a little quicker. I get recognised just as much outside the States as I do at home. When you figure tennis is probably the second-biggest sport worldwide and it’s definitely not the second-biggest sport as far as American interests. It’s probably pretty similar.

I heard a good joke?
Actually this morning from my friend, Dillon. Again, it’s not printable…

Agassi’s interview on l’Equipe today. From Ricky. Thanks.

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Agassi’s interview on l’Equipe today:

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Roddick & Serena Williams want to team up at 2012 Games. From Monique. Thanks.

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Tiger jokes. From Sarah. Thanks.

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Some Tiger’s jokes from another website.

What is the difference between a car and a golf ball? Tiger Woods can drive a golf ball 400 yards.

Faux news and CNN have reported Elin Nordegren moved to the top of the PGA Tour money list after “beating” the world’s best number one golfer. The news came after the world’s number one golfer inadvertently played the wrong hole(s).

What’s the difference between Santa and Tiger Woods? Santa stops at 3 ho’s.

If the only way to beat Tiger is being a blonde with large breasts, Phil Mickelson should dye his hair blonde.

Tiger’s trouble started at thanksgiving, when he asked his wife for another piece of white meat.

Tiger wood got tire of birdying the same hole!

The police asked Tiger’s wife how many times she hit him. “I can’t remember,” Elin said, “just put me down for a 5.”

Stats for the decade. From Barbara. Thanks.

BARBARA

Some stats of the Decade from ATP site:
Most Match Wins In A Season
92, Roger Federer, 2006
82, Rafael Nadal, 2008
81, Roger Federer, 2005
80, Lleyton Hewitt, 2001
79, Rafael Nadal, 2005

Most Titles In A Season
12, Roger Federer, 2006
11, Roger Federer, 2005
11, Rafael Nadal, 2005
11, Roger Federer, 2004
8, Rafael Nadal, 2008

Fewest Matches Lost In A Season (Top 10 player)
4, Roger Federer, 2005
5, Roger Federer, 2006
6, Roger Federer, 2004
9, Roger Federer, 2007
9, Lleyton Hewitt, 2005

Longest Match Time (Best-of-five sets)
6:33* (over two days), Fabrice Santoro d. Arnaud Clement 64 63 67(5) 36 16-14, 2004 Roland Garros 1st Rd.

Longest Match Time (Best-of-three sets)
4:03*, Rafael Nadal d. Novak Djokovic 36 76(5) 76(9), 2009 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid SF

Longest Clay Court Match Winning Streak
81*, Rafael Nadal, April 2005-May 2007

Longest Grass Court Match Winning Streak
65*, Roger Federer, June 2002-July 2008

Longest Hard Court Match Winning Streak
56*, Roger Federer, February 2005-March 2006

Most Aces In A Season
1,318, Ivo Karlovic, 2007

Most Weeks at No. 1
263 (as of Dec. 28, ‘09), Roger Federer, 2004-09

Most Consecutive Weeks at No. 1
237*, Roger Federer, Feb. 2, 2004-Aug. 17, 2008

Most Clay Court Match Wins In A Season
50, Rafael Nadal, 2005

Most Hard Court Match Wins In A Season
59*, Roger Federer, 2006

Most Grass Court Match Wins In A Season
16, Lleyton Hewitt, 2001

Most Clay Court Titles (Decade)
25, Rafael Nadal (2004-09)

Most Hard Court Titles (Decade)
39, Roger Federer (2002-09)

Most Grass Court Titles (Decade)
11*, Roger Federer (2003-07, ‘09)

* Open Era record (since 1968)

Does Tiger deserve the athlete of the decade honor?

What does Pussy Tiger’s selection as the athlete of the decade say?

The loudest message for athletes is to take care of business on the court / course / field and then to knowingly breach all and every rule of decorum and decency with utter disregard and disdain to any worries of how that may tarnish their legacy. 

Translate that to the young impressionable minds who look up to some of these clowns as Gods.

It also is a green light for Woods to come out from under that desk in his living room with a lot less strain of embarrassment and humiliation.

But realistically it’s an amazing statement to how much has been achieved on the sports field this decade. I mean if you can win 15 freaking Slams in ten freaking years along with multitudes of ‘stand alone’ records and still come out third on that list – even at a US biased poll – this then has to be one of the grandest eras in sports history just with the sheer number of geniuses on the plate.

This is a mix you expect in about a century if you are lucky. Or is this more an era of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs and we are yet to receive an official confirmation of it in these sports directly from these three jokers (Woods, Armstrong and Federer)?

With Agassi the latest one to come out with buried secrets, I think the time to give these athletes the benefit of doubt is long over. Everyone is a suspect. While it will be a shock of the century to watch Federer admit to doping, with this Woods scandal however, can you really be surprised at anything now?

That’s the last you expected of Woods – to cheat on his wife. He not only achieved that he shattered it what 16 bimbos and counting on top of that. And now even doping allegations appear not too far behind.

Is this then ‘nothing succeeds like success’ in action or God’s way of hinting at a 180 or else warning? If you take a micro view of it, not much may appear wrong but the long view WILL make you shudder in your boots – if you fail to heed the warning.

Woods is at that ‘on his knees’ praying situation I mentioned here sometime ago. It’s time to right the ship in absolute alignment with NOTHING but his conscience. Any other yardstick and there may not be another chance.

Nonetheless, Federer must be where Nadal was sometime ago. Despite all his exploits at such a young age, Nadal couldn’t even get to No. 1, forget about being regarded as the greatest player of his generation. Any other time, he would have been crowned as a prodigy with that point total.

This also puts in perspective the athlete of a century honor which has gone to Ali – indisputably. You have to wonder how much more will the future athletes of the world have to produce to match these records – without the steroids.

I think it’s a losing battle against these drugs with the ultimate end of a ‘free for all’ madness where all restrictions are dropped out of the impossibility of regulating drug use in sports and every record getting revised every freaking month if not every week.

It may eventually boil down to complete irrelevance to the stats and records with just the spectacle and thrill of watching and consequent fan / money draw it suggests as the only tool that matters.

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Woods named top athlete of decade. From Sarah / Chipnputt / Claire. Thanks.

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There you go — AP has voted Tiger as the Top Athlete of the Decade: http://bit.ly/5h0Ahj

A real travesty in my opinion. Sex scandals aside (and I don’t think it should matter for they’re voting for athlete and not all-around good person) Tiger’s record just simply doesn’t stand up to Roger. Tiger was dominant in the early part of the decade when he held all four majors at the same time, then went nearly 3 years without a major, and done one or two a year after that. Roger got going in 2003 and has been simply outstanding after that. Three majors in a year thrice, two majors in a year twice. The most number of majors done in record time. Lance Armstrong was #2 and Roger #3. I’m beginning to suspect that AP has a bit of an American bias.

SARAH / CLAIRE

Updated: December 16, 2009, 4:03 PM ET
Woods named top athlete of decade
Associated Press

Even after a shocking sex scandal that tarnished Tiger Woods, it was tough to ignore what he achieved on the golf course.

He won 64 times around the world, including 12 majors, and hoisted a trophy on every continent golf is played. He lost only one time with the lead going into the final round. His 56 PGA Tour victories in one incomparable decade were more than anyone except four of golf’s greatest players won in their careers.

Woods was selected Wednesday as the Athlete of the Decade by members of The Associated Press in a vote that was more about 10 years of performance than nearly three weeks of salacious headlines.

Just like so many of his victories, it wasn’t much of a contest.

Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by AP member editors since last month. More than half of the ballots were returned after the Nov. 27 car accident outside his Florida home that set off sensational tales of infidelity.

Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de France six times this decade, finished second with 33 votes. He was followed by Roger Federer, who won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other man, with 25 votes.

Record-setting Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps came in fourth with 13 votes, followed by New England quarterback Tom Brady (6) and sprinter Usain Bolt (4). Five other athletes received one vote apiece.

Woods, who has not been seen since the accident and has issued only three statements on his Web site, was not made available to comment about the award.

Few other athletes have changed their sport quite like Woods. His influence has been so powerful that TV ratings spiked whenever he played, even more when he has been in contention. Prize money has quadrupled since he joined the PGA Tour because of his broad appeal.

A new image emerged quickly in the days following his middle-of-the-night accident, when he ran his SUV over a fire hydrant and into a tree. He became the butt of late-night TV jokes, eventually confessed that he “let my family down” with “transgressions” and lost a major sponsorship from Accenture.

Even so, AP members found his work on the golf course over the last 10 years without much of a blemish. Woods took an early lead in balloting, and continued to receive roughly the same percentage of votes throughout the process.

“Despite the tsunami of negative publicity that will likely tarnish his image, there’s no denying that Woods’ on-the-course accomplishments set a new standard of dominance within his sport while making golf more accessible to the masses,” wrote Stu Whitney, sports editor of the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus Leader.

“The only proof needed are the television ratings when Tiger plays in a golf tournament, compared to those events when others have to carry the load.”

Woods tumbled from the pinnacle of his sport in just about three weeks. The 10 years that preceded that fall, however, represented perhaps the greatest decade in golf history.

He won the career Grand Slam three times over, including one U.S. Open by a record 15 shots at Pebble Beach and another U.S. Open on a mangled leg in a playoff at Torrey Pines. He twice won the British Open at St. Andrews, the home of golf, by a combined 13 shots.

Woods won 56 times on the PGA Tour this decade, a rate of 30 percent that is unprecedented in golf. Nine of those victories were by at least eight shots. He was No. 1 in the world ranking for all but 32 weeks in the decade, that when he was revamping his swing.

He did his best work in the biggest events.

Along with his 12 majors this decade — he has 14 overall, four short of the record held by Jack Nicklaus — Woods was runner-up in six other majors. He won 14 times out of 27 appearances in the World Golf Championships.

Woods finished the decade with $81,547,410 in earnings from his PGA Tour events, an average of $482,529 per tournament.

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press

Agassi Vs Sampras – Australian Open 2000.

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Lopez’s coming out moment.

Navratilova in the making?

Equal, if not a bigger culprit, in this Tiger Pussy Woods saga.

Yeah, this section may potentially have tarnished it’s image far more ferociously than even Tiger did with his stupidity. Have a clue? No, you don’t!!!!

It’s the female race. Until now I considered ALL men to be pigs, but with this BS I cannot but infer that ALL women (worthy or unworthy of pursuit) are right there.

What else can you conclude from the following:

This was not a brothel that Woods was picking up women from. His cache represents a wide cross-section of the female population from waitresses to porn stars. I have a hard time believing that there’s even ONE freaking female who turned down Tiger’s advances – ONE.

Message to men? Be rich and famous and you can have us anytime anywhere – ALL of us. Doesn’t matter if you are married or you are a Danny DeVito, we will do you at the drop of a hat (got parking lot and back seat?). And please don’t be fooled by our appearance or whatever. Underneath we are all willing and ready – given those two requisites.

I would have had some pity if these ‘women’ would have just stopped at that, but the next step they so shamelessly took categorically pushes them way past men: The callousness and cold heartedness with which they have lined up to cash in on this fiasco.

I wonder if there’s a SINGLE woman in the tennis stadium that Federer cannot lay – on the spot, going by this logic. 

Just the mere fact that some of these Tiger bimbos were married themselves – with a freaking kid – and had full knowledge of being a home wrecker pushes women off the edge, don’t you think?

It’s a shameless reflection on the human race and the times we are living in that ANY woman can be made to debase herself – willingly – to ANY MALE as long as he has money and fame. 

If this is how the majority if not all of them think, there’s little wonder that the divorce rate is off the charts, considering the monetary windfall the break up entails for women.

Who beat up on whom and with what ferocity – this year?

Federer vs:

Nadal 1-1.

Djokovic 2-3.

Murray 2-2.

Delpo 3-2.

Nadal vs:

Federer 1-1.

Djokovic 3-3.

Murray 2-1.

Delpo 1-3.

Djokovic vs:

Federer 3-2.

Nadal 3-3.

Murray 0-1.

Delpo 1-0.

Murray vs:

Federer 2-2.

Nadal 1-2.

Djokovic 1-0.

Delpo 3-1.

Delpo vs:

Federer 2-3.

Nadal 3-1.

Djokovic 0-1.

Murray 1-3.

Wanna-be mob bosses – one with a ‘conflicted’ mistress.

‘What could have been’ vs ‘what’s in your bag’.

Even though most dwell on the ‘what could have been’ irrespective how much they have achieved, it becomes a monster if the separation from the other aisle held you back from piercing a whole new stratosphere not even imagined in your industry.

Clearly Lendl is the first that comes to mind as he lost 11 freaking Slam finals. He ended up with eight. While it’s a huge ‘what could have been’, even it’s full realisation would have left a lot of gaps in his resume to deny entry into any unimaginable planet.

Then there’s this guy who missed the following with the narrowest of margins:

-Three – straight – calendar Slams.

-21 Slams, amongst others.

Anytime the leap owning the ‘what could have been’ is so stark and quantum-like, ‘what’s in your bag’ will NEVER relinquish the residue taste – no matter how hard you try.

And if you don’t have many bodies to spread that blame on, your nightmares cannot but help pull just one image year after year.

Did you know they are freaking growing body parts now?

Now I can be less judicious of where I ‘go’ now.

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Instances when wisdom alone cannot trump youth and inexperience.

When George Foreman won a fight in his late thirties or something, he was asked of the secret. He replied (paraphrasing) “I am a lot craftier now. I can see how big a fool Ali made of me at that Zaire fiasco when he knocked me out in my prime. I would never fall for that today.”

As athletes age, they pick up tricks of the trade over time to realise how stupid they were in their prime to not see that. While most are unable to take advantage of this pricey information since youth has already bypassed the equation, the greats are able to synchronise the two to sustain that high level of play.

There’s no question Sharapova must be wondering why she cannot win another Wimbledon when she did for the first and only time at age 17 or Safin wondering why he cannot win few more US Open titles now after winning the one and only one at age 20 after beating Sampras in straight freaking sets.

Sometimes you wonder if being naive, ignorant and incapable of thinking intelligently is a real asset for some.

REAL reason Tiger pussy Woods is taking an indefinite leave BS.

That ‘working on the marriage’ crap goes out the window just with the fact that you are still in contact with one of your bimbos with promises of getting together.

So what’s the real reason?

It’s not having the balls to face the public. Pure and simple. He is so embarrassed and shamed that he cannot even bring himself to show his face – ANYWHERE, forget about a golf course. And those lacerations own just a miniscule part of that BS.

What do the tennis greats hate about Federer – the most?

One of the obvious reasons is the destruction of every freaking record. But is that at the top of the list? Don’t think so. Have a clue? No, you don’t!!!!!

It’s the EASE with which Federer has achieved near impossible feat(s). With the possible exception of maybe Borg, each and every one of the former greats has toiled like a construction worker to earn the stripes.

Just watch tapes of Lendl, Connors, Agassi or even Sampras and you can sense how hard they had to fight to squeak out a win – sometimes against clowns at or near bottom of the freaking draw. Most of them were dripping with sweat after almost every freaking match.

Still not convinced? Look at the scores. The massive disparity in the number of five setters, three setters and 7-5′s these old jokers had to churn out to bell the cat speaks volumes at what I am barking about here.

In short, these former greats put out everyfreakingthing they had on the court to get those numbers – at a full span of tennis career. Heck, some even extended the usual span and still landed amongst the riff raff.

And Federer is not even close to a full career number yet. Forget about what can happen if he goes ‘Connors’ or ‘Agassi’ on these jokers. Add the fact that he barely sweats. That may be more due to biological reasons but the scoreboard refuses to even agree with that.

These former greats are really astonished and truly amazed at how ANYONE can even dream of pulling off what Federer is actually barely ‘walking in the park’ through – comparatively.

Most stunned has to Sampras who enjoys the minimal separation in terms of technology, court surface speed etc etc. It’s no wonder he cries about weaker competition the loundest since there’ no other cover you can run for to even remotely make sense of Federer’s march.

Federer’s ostensible nonchalant walk through the history books is making those extreme training techniques, laser focus etc. these former greats bragged about look bad to the extent of even taking away some of their due credit.

Anytime your industry benchmark is twice (15) of what you did (8 or 7) - at full throttle, you have got to feel embarrassed and humiliated.

Andy Roddick – The Art Of The Press Conferences.

A Free Lesson With: Novak Djokovic.

What do these signatures say? And how’s Fed running his R and G? Geeezzzz!!!!!

The Players Of The Decade. From Monique. Thanks.

MONIQUE

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Mafia involvement with Refs.

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