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Keegan
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 Posted: 01/24/05 7:48 am ::: Lleyton Hewitt and Alicia Molik into Australian Open QFs |
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Lleyton Hewitt is an annoying little git but his performance today was something special. He may be a prick but he's a resilient one and thrives on pressure. I'm more impressed with Alicia Molik who seems to be taking the expectations of the whole country rather calmly. We haven't had a Top 10 female player since the mid 1980s and no woman has made the Australian Open quarter finals since 1988! She didn't outplay Venus by much but held her nerve on key points. Venus was her wild self with forehands spraying everywhere. I think Alicia has a great chance of beating Lindsay Davenport in the quarters and her serve is one of the best in the game today.
Oh yeah, Maria Sharapova is *the* most annoying player in tennis (makes Hewitt look like an angel). Her high pitched squealing coupled with bad interview manner (honey, stop giggling) - ugh! She's not even that good looking (boy some straight men have become desperate). Impressive ground strokes though. |
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| Posted: 01/24/05 10:54 am ::: |
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| Sharapova's grunts are really annoying, I can't watch her games, I think Monica Seles was less annoying. And Hewitt has heart, if not class. I still think there's no one who can beat Federer at this point. He's been cruising, but his pool isn't really hard. As for the women, your local girl will have to beat a lot of Russians to get to the title lol...
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| Posted: 01/24/05 3:50 pm ::: |
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| Sharapova's grunts are really annoying, I can't watch her games, I think Monica Seles was less annoying. And Hewitt has heart, if not class. I still think there's no one who can beat Federer at this point. He's been cruising, but his pool isn't really hard. As for the women, your local girl will have to beat a lot of Russians to get to the title lol... |
Maria has actually toned down the volume of her grunts this year. I definitely notice a big difference from now and last year's Aussie Open. Too bad, I kind of liked the old grunts, lol.
That and it was actually because of her infamous grunts that I first noticed her over 2 years ago. I still remember the local sports radio program jokingly superimposed Maria's grunts over another famous men's player's grunts, making it sound like, well... Nevermind!  After that, I started making a point to watch her on TV and in seeing her play, I knew she'd be a star. So it wasn't that much of a suprise to me when she won Wimbledon. Too bad they don't have a women's tennis VGM!
Grunt if you like Women's Tennis!
Now there's a bumper sticker idea... 
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| Posted: 01/24/05 4:06 pm ::: |
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| Grunt if you like Women's Tennis! |
Not quite as bad as the Kournikova ad for sports bras...Anna, standing in a bra, with the tagline, "Because only the balls should bounce."
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Keegan
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| Posted: 01/24/05 4:16 pm ::: |
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| BCBG25 wrote: |
| Sharapova's grunts are really annoying, I can't watch her games, I think Monica Seles was less annoying. And Hewitt has heart, if not class. I still think there's no one who can beat Federer at this point. He's been cruising, but his pool isn't really hard. As for the women, your local girl will have to beat a lot of Russians to get to the title lol... |
Monica Seles' grunts weren't as high pitched. As I said, Sharapova squeals.
As for the Russian ladies, well Myskina and Dementieva lost in the 4th round so there are no more Russians in Alicia's half of the draw. Sharapova and Kuznetsova face off in the quarters in the other half of the draw (the winner plays S Williams/Mauresmo).
Sorry for spoiling the result of others but we haven't had a good womens player for almost 20 years. You can still watch the match (I could certainly rewatch it ) |
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BCBG25
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| Posted: 01/24/05 8:14 pm ::: |
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| Keegan wrote: |
Monica Seles' grunts weren't as high pitched. As I said, Sharapova squeals.
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Gee, I'm watching her game right now...on mute.
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| Posted: 01/24/05 10:14 pm ::: |
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My dream final would be Molik and Sharapova - with Alicia blasting Maria off the court  |
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BCBG25
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| Posted: 01/24/05 10:32 pm ::: |
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| Sharapova's game ended already and I now am getting Williams vs. Mauresmo. I can't believe Serena's listed as weighing 61kg. Come on, that's almost my weight and I'm half her size. She's at least 10 kgs heavier than that.
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I guess Screamin' Sharapova's coming on tape delay. Go Maria, lol.
