I say this every year, but Wimbledon is the greatest non-football sporty thing there is. And this year I can enjoy it largely unimpeded -- I'll be in God's Own Timezone for most of the important rounds, and until then ESPN has seen fit to air matches live (the early rounds, at least). So no bare-assed stunts of vengeance this time, which is less entertaining for the rest of you but really, I don't need additives in my pure summer fun.
If you'd like some actual tennis writing, Fearless Leader Swindle is covering the tourney for TSB. Chief delights found here:
Julien Benneteau (pictured) versus the world No. 4 Novak Djokovic, which isn't even over at the moment thanks to the first two sets going 7-6, 6-7 in an hour and fifty minutes. (Noted by the always punctilious Chris Fowler, one of eight human beings caught in the grip of a college football/tennis obsessive cycle over the course of a calendar year.)For the win, a running "Bud Collins is wearing..." feature. Also check out Y!'s newish and unnamed but very nice tennis blog.
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James Blake became the first seeded player to be knocked out of Wimbledon. Then again, you knew that would happen, because James Blake excels at two things: the game of tennis, and exiting major tournaments in the first round.
And if anyone needs me the next couple weeks, just follow the pattern of the last twenty years or so -- I'll be spending late June and early July nibbling fancy snacks and cooing at crisp whites and cursing umpires with Miz Naincy.
The Purple Y! Ranch blogs without names need them. There should be a contest. They seem so sad otherwise.
I'm trying to fill up on the hate usually reserved for the dirtballer by getting up the animosity for Novak Djokovic. Serbs are to the tennis world what Italians are to soccer. (I have been counting how many damn times he bounces the ball before deigning to serve.)
Posted by: Signal to Noise at June 22, 2009 12:49 PMHave a great time in God's Own Timezone! Though this has nothing to do with anything, I wanted to tel you that I gree with you totally: Wall-E is awesome.
Posted by: Mac790 at June 22, 2009 01:19 PM