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ATP, Davis Cup, French Open, Gossip, Masters Series, Tennis, WTA - Written by Lynn on Friday, June 1, 2007 9:19 - 10 Comments

Dementieva Steams Up the Closet, Go Down Mary’s Allée

Picture of Paris

  • “Rafa is like the new rock star of tennis.” — Bjorn Borg on Rafael Nadal… and somehow forgetting that Medudo broke up a long time ago. (Oh, sorry! We must have momentarily forgotten how “cool” Cafe Tecuba is considered.) [The Age]
  • Venus Williams loses tennis match to Jelena Jankovic, fans go crazy, pretend it’s never happened before. Film at 11. [OTB News]
  • Good Read: Rick Vach gives us the scoop on the ATP Player’s Council meeting at Roland Garros. Spoiler Alert: They’re still arguing over awarding Davis Cup points, and have voted to uphold the back to back Masters Series scheduling. Pretend to be surprised. [Tennis Backhander]
  • “To be honest with you, I grew up in the hood, and any court is a good court to me.” — Serena Williams, providing a reaction to the Australian Open’s new court surface. [RG Transcript]
  • “I feel terrible. I feel like a cow on ice.” — Maria Sharapova, on her clay-court form. Q: Under what circumstance would a cow be on ice? [RG Transcript]
  • When in Gay Paree, make sure to go down Allée Mary [Pierce]… at Roland Garros. Which doesn’t rhyme, but that’s fine. [WTA]
  • Is anyone reporting on doubles?! Can we get some doubles love please? [OTB Questions File]
  • Rafa Nadal blogs about his acceptance speech last year, eats dinner with Feliciano Lopez, and plays more video games. I feel fulfilled. [Rafa Blog]
  • Cheers to TTC for airing the tight Nicolas Massu-Igor Andreev match instead of showing Roger Federer rolling Potito Starace. It almost more than makes up for those two freaky Maury Povich-Connie Chung appearances yesterday. Almost. [OTB Comments Central]
  • Jeers to TTC, who reported this morning that Nicole Vaidisova is 22 years old. No, it wasn’t a reporter’s mistake, they even had a graphic! [OTB News]
  • Project: Come up for a snappy new name for the Serbian players. You know you wanna. [OTB Projects Dept, 7th Floor]
  • Found art. [MN Artists]
  • Found art deux. [Some Fan]
  • OTB Video o’ the Day: Michael Llodra does something for Un Jour. We’re not quite sure what to call it, really. [France3]
  • OTB Video o’ the Day II: Elena Dementieva steams up the closet, and sends her q-rating through the roof. [France3]
  • OTB Video o’ the Day III: Alize Cornet takes things very seriously. Despite being surrounded by idiots and feather boas. [France3]
  • Pic of the Week: Nothing sums up a soggy week in Paris like this. [OTB Photo Phile]
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clairegNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 10:38

Elena. Oh. My.

I think I’ve seen even that photo of Kuzzie before. She looks purrty.

MontyNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 10:44

Ooooh, a mention on the French Open site’s live blog. We’re going places, this site.

And by we, I mean everyone else, as I comment so seldomly.

I’m still waiting for Djokovic’s trip to the closet to be topped. That had to be the least impressive shirt ripping off by a pro athlete I’ve ever seen.

Edit: Yikes, what a dreadful default avatar. That’s just evil.

benNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 11:00

your on the french open site? cool! dementia with the crap serve has topped anything anyone else has done in the closet.

i need a towel now — and to watch it again.

just saw the live score. monfils just dropped the breaker in the third. he’s probably giving a good show tho.

yogahzNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 11:02

That Sveta picture has *got* to become someone’s avatar!

Elena…come on…she has music video experience, she should have more moves!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K7m8rZ61gmk

8O Never mind.

clairegNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 11:10

Wait. We’re on RG.com?? Where? I need to put on lipstick. :lol:

yogahz, that video is awesome… but what is she supposed to be selling? Is there a product here?

Oh. Nevermind. ;)

-cj-No Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 11:16

YES, Elena, I will already… Sheesh.

The flashy lights almost gave me a seizure.

Ahem… the Doubles Revolution will not be televised. Which is sad. There is some great doubles going on at the French but you would hardly know it. I mean, the men’s draw even features AMERICAN players. Plus, there are some fun ladies teams this go round. Li Na and Jelena Jankovic are the strangest pair I think I’ve seen in a while. Well, there’s their next round opponents Dinara Safina and Shahar Peer, but you wouldn’t want to see that on TV, would you??

LynnNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 11:22

Yep. One of our frequent readers, Miss Suzanne of the Great North, posted a digg link to their live blog yesterday. Sounds like Drew confused who dugg him, but that’s cool. Digg away and give them some lub.

AFAIK that Sveta pic is from yesterday. Maybe you saw it elsewheres on the Interwebs? I totally agree — someone must make that their avatar. Stat.

As for Ms. Lena D, she’s getting her tuchus handed to her by a rather rotund Bartoli. Luckily she has a future in sexy TV spots (and we’ll disregard the fact that it almost blinded cj for now).

Oop! Monfils is back. Gotta go…. allez!!

clairegNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 14:10

I would adopt Kuzy’s picture as my own, but I’m rather fond of the one I have now.

I am in total agreement with you guys regarding televised doubles. It’s not insulting enough that they put them out on court 48, but they hardly get reported on even! I just looked, and noticed that Monfils is playing dubs with Wozniaki!! After the tight 4 sets he played with Day-vid (no longer Daveeed) Nalby, that is pretty amazing. ;)

jillNo Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 15:32

We totally need to give props to LaMouf for playing doubles after that killer four setter, even if they did get fed a bagel in the first. ;)

But really. How unfair is it that they let Lisa Raymond and one of the Bryan’s play together? May as well just hand over the trophy right now.

Now that I think of it, I really wish I could watch doubles. And here’s a point to consider: Why can’t TTC show some of these doubles matches on their downtime? Not live, but on tape. Surely they could get rights? We’re not picky, we wouldn’t even ask for commentators. In fact, we’d prefer none, especially if it would be Gimelstob or Thomas Blake!!

P.S. I just wrote my first OTB News! Please go easy on me in the comments guys. 8)
P.S.S. Lynn deserves a ton of credit for doing that every day. Believe me, it was really really hard!!

-cj-No Gravatar
Jun 1, 2007 16:07

ooh… i have an idea for the Kuznetsova Glamour Shot. The next time someone says something naughty on the board, punish them by assigning them Svetlana’s head.

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