Wednesday, December 12, 2007 @4:03 AM
For some reason, the image search on google has disappeared. On my com, at least. Great. Just great. I wanna know how Irina Davydenko looks like! Strange, she was at the Davies Cup, yet I watched through the match and didn't see her. I think the camera should show the WAGs more often. Sure, it shows Mirka, Mirka, and more Mirka every Fed match, and some of Bec Hewitt. But the rest, nil. Fine, I'm assuming the wags do come to the matches. I've only managed to catch a two-second glimpse of Xisca at, what was it, Montreal?
Ah, I've got one. It's a wedding pic of her and Kolya. Awww how sweet. She looks as pretty as Zhimin said she was. Sorry if I sound kinda loony here, but I'm bored with nothing to do and I feel like blogging.
Trudging through websites, I discovered a Roger/Maria fan video. The pairing itself makes me feel quite nauseous and rather disturbed, although I must say the video is hilarious, and it realy makes it look like they're in love. XD Still does not make me a fan of the pairing though. *shudders*
Another vid I discovered was one of a 12-year-old Rafa and a 7-year-old Djokovic. Uh, not with them together of course, it's two separate videos. Of course they both looked as cute as buttons, kids can never go wrong. Yes, even Djokovic. Rafa's face and expression look just the same as they do now! :) I was ooh-ing and ahh-ing over it. He had shorter hair that time, and kind of floppy, like Tom Felton's hair. I prefer his hair now, though. XD Djokovic was making these funny sounds while hitting, which one person commented was like "a 20-year-old Sharapova shrieking". See, they're made for each other. Pity that rumour of them getting together was false. Turns out it was just a one-night stand. "What kind of one-night stand?!" Zhimin demanded to know when I told her. XD
Davies Cup 2008 draw is out, Spain faces Peru first on outdoor clay. No sweat, vamos to the Spanish armada. :D
Article which made me sputter:
Federer, Andy Roddick and Justine Henin are hardly likely to quit a tournament with a bogus injury, but the administrators might have created a bigger problem for every player with their new rule.
However, a few months ago, the ATP announced that they had finally taken the first step towards finding an answer to the problem. They have introduced a rule, only valid for doubles matches (men and women) to start with. It's called the "doubles withdrawal rule" and it is aimed at preventing players from giving up matches using false injury reasons to leave in time to get to another tournament.
And the rule is new for doubles because players 'tanking' matches is much more common in doubles than singles. It comes into effect from the second round in any tournament, no matter at what level. So a player who announces, during a match that he or she is injured and cannot continue, has two choices:
He/she can quit the match in the middle and lose all points and prize money accumulated in the tournament up to that stage (be it first round or final), or he/she can simply "tough it out" and keep playing to the end.
That is SO NOT FAIR. What if it's real? Does this mean the poor guy/girl has to tough it out and play to the end, while bearing with the pain of the injury and all, risking further aggravation and thus be in a worse condition for the next tournament, just to claim what is rightly theirs? Hellooo, ATP, get some sense! Thank goodness it's only for doubles players. But they just might stretch it to the singles too! *cries* *wails* THIS IS NO WAY TO DEAL WITH THE SITUATION! C'mon, think about it, why would a player give up a match just to catch the next tournament? Unless he/she knows that it's no chance for them. To win, I mean. In that case, he/she would lose anyway if he/she continues, so what's the point of making them continue? (a) this does not change the results (b) yes, the tough first choice would show that the injury is genuine, but is far too tough and unfair for the players and (c) if it's fake, they'd choose the second choice, but lose anyway since they mean to do that. SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?! I personally think the ATP should be looking closer into the Tommy H poisoning case instead of coming up with rules like this.
*deep breath*
Ok, shall not get so agitated.
Am having a very amusing convo with Joy right now, who has just discovered the wonders of fangirlism (everyone should!) and is swooning and squeeing over King Fed. She's telling me about how much she'd like to marry him despite parental objection. She also says that she wouldn't mind if he had 3 or 4 other wives. XD I shall not comment about what I think of her choice, but I approve of fangirlism in general, so right on!
Dinner time. Byee.