ANITAAAAAAAA COME BACK TO AUSSSSSSS

The tennis season is starting to firing up, and I don't have Anita to talk about random players and random Forty Deuce stuff that we always talk about, especially in Science. SHe's not even IN the country.

Anyway, she'd be happy to know that Rafa beat Roger at the Abu Dhabi finals (I think that's how you spell it?). Then they did this:

Pretty cool eh? This isn't the best shot but Rafa and Roger where promoting teh Qatar Open, on water. No wonder Qatar won the 2022 Fifa bid. THEY'RE SUPER MEGA FREAKING RICH. If I ever meet a person from Qatar (a Qatarian?), all I'll ever see in them is dollar signs zinging in their eyeballs and gold running right through their veins.

In the meantime, the Brisbane International got off to a pretty good start. Sam won her 1st round match yesterday against a Czech qualifier Lucie Hradecka 7-6(1) 6-1. The start was really shaky. Actually, I managed to watch the first bit before my mum started chastising me for watching television (ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!) She was down 2-0 in the first set. It rained and after the delay, the tables turned and Sam was back on her game and just did her thing in the 2nd set.

Some things went a little unexplained during the match though:

Sam... pink? WHAT THE HECK???!!!! Forty Deuce made her own judgement on other aspects: "Let's talk about the thing that's on all our minds: WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO, LACOSTE??? Sleeves??? A logoless cap that looks like it was bought at a truck stop in Santa Cruz??? SLEEVES??? I mean, yay to separates, but SLEEVES???!!!???!!??!."

I was skimming thorugh the Aus Open site to see if they had anything interesting articles and they did. It was about predictions for 2011. Here's the gold:

Australian Open: Djokovic, Clijsters
Roland Garros: Nadal, Stosur
Wimbledon: Nadal, Serena
US Open: Federer, Sharapov

Me likey ;)

Sam's 2nd round match against fellow compatriot Jarmila Groth is on tonight. The bad news is that Channel 7 has ditched covering it in favour of Scrubs or something or rather. ==' Well, I'll be hooked up to my laptop getting square-eyed and all following the little blip of the digits on the live scoring.

tennis update - long time no see

so the reason why i haven't really been ranting on about Samantha Stosur or tennis in general is because Wimbledon is over and the hard court season has begun and there will be no serious action until ... the end of July when Sam goes to Stanford.

How opinionated of me. There is only serious action when Sam's around ;P

And the US Open is ages away - it's in August. HEY! That's actually not THAT far away. hmm... Well it starts on the 30th of August. So really, I guess it starts in... September (I was trying to think what month comes after August)?

I have no idea what kind of shizzle road Hewitt is going on right now. Davis Cup is coming up! But Australia's not in the quarters. Besides, we suck compared to other countries like Spain. I still don't get why Rafa isn't in the Spanish team. *shakes fist* I'm not a Rafa fan but you'd think that when it comes to playing for your country, you'd BE there. =='