omg human tennis ball. Dude needs a girlfriend.
hope its nadal and federer in the final. I have a feeling nadal will overpower federer again. Federer is a great dancer but nadal is a boxer and, well, that doesnt bode well for the dancer.
OMG IT'S GOING TO HIT ME!
what is this strange salute youzhny does after every match?Show Image(http://newballs.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/youzhny-salute.jpg)
he's pretty good, i'd never heard of him before. Watched his match with Isner. Looks like he made it to the quarterfinals.
what, was he in the army or something?
But Youzhny eventually quashed those plans, proving fresher and more accurate down the stretch to win, 3-6, 7-6 (7), 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, with Wawrinka destroying one of his rackets in frustration deep in the fifth set.
Youzhny has escaped from more compromising situations in the past, starting at the beginning. In 2002, in the Davis Cup final against France in Paris, his captain, Shamil Tarpischev, called on him to replace the struggling Yevgeni Kafelnikov in the fifth and final match.
Just 20 then, Youzhny rallied from a two-set deficit to defeat Paul-Henri Mathieu and secure the Cup for the first time for Russia, with Boris Yeltsin, the former Russian president, celebrating in the stands. There would be quite a celebration in Paris and back in Moscow, but Youzhny’s emotions were mixed, because his father, Mikhail, had died suddenly just a few months earlier.
Eight years later, Youzhny is a father himself, but he still commemorates victories with a salute to all four sides of a stadium with his tennis racket resting on his head. It is hardly as classic a gesture as Andre Agassi’s blown kisses and bows, but it still means plenty to Youzhny, whose father was in the military.
“It’s my way of dedicating my victories to my father,” he said.
^---ugh, guys tennis? tennis should really only have women play, the only thing men should be doing in tennis is being ball boy or something. But then of course that would disqualify the williams sisters from playing... cuz i know i'm not the only who says they are not women! dear lord look at them!