Ahh yes theres nothin on earth like a genuine, bonified, electrified 60-70 game tennis match! This years Wimbledon has welcomed the longest match in history, which broke more than that record! The most aces, the most games in a match and set, and the longest time at about 11 hours and 3 days! As the two player will never have the talent to win a grand slam, there is speculation that they both kept the game going for so long in order to make history in some way! But if so, they couldve stopped at about 58 to 60 games, or even about 36 to 38. But at 68 to 70, even they didnt need to wrok that hard to be famous!
If you're like me, you would've sat down at the TV on the first night of the match, and thought you were looking at a record of 55 to 57 unforced errors. It took about 10 minutes to register that that was actually the score! The umpire must've felt like a cat trapped in a tree, perched up in his seat all day. In the end, Isner was the winner. Yet another record for America to add to their trophy cabinet.
If you think he's frustrated at 38 games to 40...:
Dudes can hardly stand at this point...the net is holding Mahut up:
Thank God I won...how embarrassing if I didn't...oh sorry dude:
Well at least we are famous for something now:
In an angrier note. Hanescu was fined for spitting at the crowd this week during his match. He obviously started to feel the guilt, and foot faulted his way deliberately to the end of the match. He then tried to end the game by shaking the umpires hand, but the umpire said he cant do that. So he pretended to have a hammy injury so he could leave...good idea!...In an unrelated incident, 4 men were arrested in the crowd of the same match. Who knew one match could provide the next series of Underbelly with so much material :-S.
2 Aussies made it into week 2 of Wimbledon. The amazing Lleyton Hewitt...yes you heard right!....and Jarmilla 'Grothy' Groth. Commmmonnn! Lleyton plays Jokovic, tennis's favourite hypochondriac, and Grothy faces Venus, ouch!
AFL...The largest pumishment in AFL/VFL history was handed out today to steven Baker from the Saints. No it wasnt Barry Hall, or Plugga. And he didnt do one really bad thing, just a whole bunch of stupid/dumb things that accumulated to 12 weeks suspension! 9 with an early guilty plea. His idiotic behaviour involved hitting Johnsons broken hand, elbowing and punching. Basically being the worlds largest pest. Except for that guy who plays full back for North. By the looks of him he already copped his punishment when Johno turned around and whaked him in the face with an elbow, hrmmm, well if you poke a bear, what do you expect really? That'll learn 'im! But the Saints won the big Grand Final re-match against the Saints, and with Riewoldt to return soon, they probably could care less about this incident.
New guy Steven kicked a lazy 3 goals for the winners, as the Saints flooding tactics take yet another victim. The biggest scalp of all!
The Pies easily took care of the Swans in Sydney, despite some fight back by the home team. They were no match for Harry O, and Steel Sidebottom who can play footy, but might want to rethink his celebrity name. And with one as laughable as 'Sidebottom', whose parents would be dumb enough to make his first name an adjective?? There hasn't been a title that absurd since Olympic swimmer: Misty Hymen....Either way the Pies can smash the crap teams, can they knock off a top one? StKilda are on the menu soon.
Adelaides home ground has been turned into a victory fortress over the last. few weeks. They have even beaten Fremantle over there. It's the new bermuda triangle of footy. This week, the Demons copped a hidding, and lost their mo-jo Hawthorn style. It will be harder to get it back with such a young side thiough.
F1...It was all looking good with Webber starting 2nd on the grid, then he slowly slips back to ninth in the field, suggesting something was wrong with his Red Bull car. As we know our boy is an awesome driver. Then suddenly, the crappy/slow Lotus car in front of him braked, and not being used to amateur pace, Mark has run straight into the back of him! He then flipped up into the air in the most spectacular crash ever. And then landed on his head. Thanks to the safety of the cars, he walked away without a scratch! But knowing Mark he would be more concerned about walking away without any championship points.
Cricket...Lets just mention it quickly and get it out the way. We played about 3 games against England this week, we lost about 3 games against England this week. Does'nt matter that we came really close in one of them, the Ashes are right around the corner, and the Aussies are running out of practice time! Lets hope they are just foxing or we are screwwwweeed.
Soccer....The World cup rolls on, but without the Aussies :-S...The whole team has been red carded so there is nobody left to play anyway. The Psychic octopus should stop predicting match the winners, and start calling all the red cards, now that would be a talent. Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands are all looking strong.Back home, Tim Cahil has said he is proud of their efforts at the World cup. Harry Kewell doesnt quite agree. Last thing we need is fighting. Hey boys, lesh time talking, more time soccering!
all that and more on the show that goes through more balls than Roger Federer.
Peace out*.
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oh man..was that a tennis match or what..the final was a let down after that match..
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