Feliciano Lopez def Marcos Baghdatis
5-7 6-2 3-6 7-6 8-6


*sigh*

As you can see, Feli is in my Wimbledon player tracker. ;p Together with Roger and Rafa.

Now, two Spaniards. Two left-handers.

Rafael Nadal def Mikhail Youzhny
6-3 6-3 6-1


Maaan, Rafa's performance is O.o-worthy.

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Go Reeeeeeeshaaaaaad!

Roger Federer def Lleyton Hewitt
7-6 (9/7) 6-2 6-3
21 Aces, 3 Double Faults
Yet to drop a set. I hope it stays that way.



Question: Does Roger Federer sweat? Haha.

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Up next would be Mario Ancic... the last man to beat Roger at Wimbledon six years ago.

EPIC final set against Fernando Verdasco. 13-11. DANG!

Rafael Nadal def Nicolas Kiefer
7-6 6-2 6-3

And hey, it's 4:12AM here. Stayed up all night to wait/watch this match. ;)

http://tennisworld.typepad.com/travelblogue/2008/06/wimbledon-hatin.html

You be the judge.

Article here.

Funny piece. And VERY true.

I've been thinking of doing a similar piece actually. Complete with the different grunts and pre-point antics.

Soon maybe. :)

I saw Roger's French Open shirt. PhP2,500.

On the rack below it, Rafa's pirata pants. Same price.

When I saw those pants, I was surprised at how LOOSE it looked. Then I remember how TIGHT it looked on Rafa. ^___________^

I also saw Marion Bartoli's top and skirt (not cute at all) on the 2008 International Women's Open in white. In fact, I'm watching the Radwanska def Bartoli at the said tournament. In fairness, Bartoli is now bouncing the ball before serving unlike before. And her serve is different. But unlike Seles, I am a bit uncomfortable with her two-handed on both sides.

(Speaking of the 2008 International Women's Open -- the sidelines have "Adventure PHILIPPINES" on there. Haha, wala lang. Share.)

In the Women's rack, Masha's blue French Maid-y tennis frock she wore in the US Open. Aaah, gone were the days when Maria Sharapova aces both her game and her on-court fashion.

http://tennisworld.typepad.com/travelblogue/2008/06/wimbledon-hatin.html

Look at this picture of Miss Brooklyn Decker (soon-to-be Roddick I doubt it):



She looks like she's wearing one of Andy's shirts after a night-long round of smexing.

I love the face of the guy in the background though. Haha.

Maria Sharapova conqueror, Alla Kudryavtseva states her motivations in winning her 2nd round match:

1. Last year, she was two points away from upsetting Venus Williams. She ended up losing the match.

2. SHE DID NOT LIKE MARIA SHARAPOVA'S OUTFIT!!! Yeaaaah baybee!

I thought I was the ONLY one who thought it was butt!ugly. But Alla's dislike of that lingerie is too strong, combined with Masha's ever messy game ... recipe for the win.

Alla Kudryavtseva DEF Maria Sharapova
6-2 6-4

o.O

What a way to end my day.

No hagas esto para mí!

Por favor. Por favooooor!!!!!

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Oh yes yes... taking the second set at 5-2. Vamos, querido!

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Own this 3rd set tie-break, Rafa. POR FAVOOOOOR!
And you do! XD

Just one more set, querido. You can do it!

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OH YES!

Rafael Nadal def Ernests Gulbis
7-6 6-2 7-6 (7/2) 6-3

... there.



Man, this migraine is turning my brain GREEN. (As if it isn't already... HAHA.)

From

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -- I LOVE "Return of the King".
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible -- Just the Old Testament.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -- I've read some Shakespeare but not ALL of them.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -- about three months to finish.
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -- Z.O.M.G.
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -- I liked the movie more, the one with Sean Bean.
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -- didn't like it.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -- as soon as I get a copy.
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- as soon as I get a cheaper copy.
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -- Anne talks too much. It's annoying.
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan -- no sale copy yet.
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -- Gary Sinise is HOT in the movie version.
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -- can't beat this.
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -- MUST READ THIS!
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding -- not worth it. Just watch the movie.
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -- probably one of the first books I've read.
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker -- took me a while to understand this book.
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -- I have a copy, no time to read.
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -- It's an Oprah's Book Club entry so I have it in my shelf.
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -- the first Albom book is better but this is good, too.
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -- I find this overrated. SRSLY.
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I read most of them haha.

I've seen this commercial before but I haven't posted about it for the longest time. When I first saw this... my brother and I were o.O ADAM!!! Haha.

Clicky for the ad.

Clicky for AJ interview.

Yay! XD

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Didn't go to class today. My head is too heavy. :(

Star Sports official tennis correspondent, former tennis player Vijay Amritraj had this to say about the Djokovic upset:

Safin really taught him a lesson.

HA-HA. That he did.

PS: Jelena Jankovic vs Carla Suarez-Navarro tomorrow. Rematch of the French Open 2008 Quarterfinals.

But...

Roger Federer def Robin Soderling
6-3 6-4 7-6 (7/3)

Nothing special about the match apart from the dropped serve in the 3rd set but Roger broke back immediately, held serve, and leveled the match at 5-5.

And oh, Roger's players box... talk about people you'd want to be seen with: Miss Wintour of Men's Vogue chatting up with Mommy Lynette. Mama Mirks sitting beside Gavin Rosdale with wife Gwen Stefani. All that's missing are Tiger Woods and Tony Parker and you're all set.

It's 2am here. I should be sleeping -- I have a very painful migraine so I'm not sure if I can go to school tomorrow. This headache (and slight fever) has been plaguing me since Socio101 class this afternoon. We'll see.

Anyway, congrats Roger!

Marat Safin DEF Novak Djokovic
6–4 7–6(7/3) 6–2

fuuuuckiiiiin' shiiiiiiit, Marat ILU!

... speechless! HAHA. ZOMG.

Thank you for saving Rafa's #2 position and kicking a Djokovic butt for Roger.

PS: Ana won. Er yeah. At least she wore a different outfit. More pleasing to the eyes -- but VERY reminiscent of Henin.

PPS: I hope this puts Novak back in this place. Grand Slam champion or no Grand Slam champion. He talked trash about someone who won 12 and then he was defeated by his co-AO champion. What irony. I LOVE IT.

PPS: "Just fabulous to see Safin... where he belongs: Center Stage," as the Tennis Channel commentator (not JMac) said. XD

WTF is Maria Sharapova wearing?!

Some sheer halter top with some lacy whatever on the front. And those shorts that uhm... don't seem to fit.

They don't show her on cam as much as they do in this match versus Foretz. Much less a full-body shot. XD yeah... that bad.

Gaahh, what is it with these tennis women and fashion faux pas?!

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Benjamin Becker def Nikolay Davydenko
6-4 6-4 6-4
... a bigger shocker than Nalbandian's exit yesterday.

Anything Djerkobitch makes me go LULZ.

I know you respect all players and try to get along well with them, but do you think you will ever be as close to or have the same level of relationship with Djokovic as you have with Federer? All the best for Wimbledon. I am so confident you will win this time.
Tinay, Manila

Rafa: I don't know. I have a good relationship with Roger but I know him for many years. I don't know if I'll get there with Novak too. We'll see.

It's funny how Djerkobitch ticks so many people off. And not the just tennis fans!

XD

Easy yet very entertaining match. A great way for Roger to start his 6th straight Wimbledon campaign. Also, to silence those who abandoned or doubt him. Clay and grass are two very different surfaces and this week is NOT the same week as those that passed.

(Although Hrbaty still owns their H2H at 2-1.)

It was very nice that Hrbaty sat beside Roger in the last changeover. Shows what good friends they are.

One thing though...

A sign that you have MADE IT in the world is if you have everything on you PERSONALIZED.

Roger Federer has the following with the "F" or "RF" insignia or the Swiss flag or his signature:

• cap
  
• shoes
  
• wristbands
  
• shirtsssss - the one he's wearing has an "F" at the buttons
  
• personalized racket bag from Wilson - autographed
  
• belt -- yes, a FRICKIN' belt, people!
  
• gym bag (that looks like something from Louis Vuitton)
  
• hell, RACKETS! My own racket + racket case has his signature on it. The K-Factor sixone tour has it as well.
  
• and oh... notice the plastic of his rackets has "ROGERFEDERER.COM" on them, too.

He is the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of tennis. 'nuff said.