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BLAKE’S CAREER IS OVER AND OUT

June 23, 2009

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It depresses me to say it because I like James and always want him to succeed, but he has had a dismal year. His game should really pop on grass, yet he does just horrible at Wimbledon. This year he suddenly had his best grass performance ever, making the finals at Queens Club (after Roddick […]

MARTINA SHINES, GIMELSTOB SUCKS ON DAY 1 OF THE TENNIS CHANNEL

June 23, 2009

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The best thing about the Tennis Channel is hearing Martina Navratilova’s understated but totally forthright commentary about the game. It’s a very British approach to tennis analysis, where things are stated matter-of-factly and no one rushes to fill the dead air with blather about personal lives and random facts. (A cardinal rule for witnesses is […]

WIMBLEDON DAY 1: COMMENCE KISSING ROGER’S BEHIND

June 23, 2009

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Wimbledon started today. Or as they seemed to have renamed it:  The Roger Federer Greatest of All Time London Open.  The dominant theme here in America is that Roger is a mortal lock to win and that he righted his Ship of State on his own and will rightfully surpass Pete Sampras and retake the […]