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ceebeegeeTim and I went to the US Open Friday, the same day every year we always go. I was running around taking care of R&J stuff, so I didn't get out to Flushing Meadows until 2:00. Which meant that sadly I did NOT get to see Jelena Jankovic play the Chinese player, Jie Zheng. (I've heard great things about her, I was disappointed to miss that match.) However we saw Svetlana Kuznetsova (2003 (?) Champion) play, as well as a little bit of Roger Federer. I missed the Djokovic match which apparently went on for EVER. In general it was a long day and night at the tournament--they had to hold twice for rain which moved everything way back. We didn't leave until around 2:00 am. Lindsay Davenport played an incredibly lackluster match in Arthur Ashe and got spanked. Love me some Lindsay--I was excited to see her and then very let down by what I saw. She needs to decide if she really wants to keep going.
That's Andy in the background!
But the best match was my man Andy Roddick against some Latvian guy, Ernst Gulbis. It started out with Andy getting hammered--the Latvian was very good, his returns were incredibly fast. Andy lost 3-6 in the first set. But then he took the second set 7-5 and then just kept going...and going...and going. He kept working, and finding the angles and wearing the guy down. The whole crowd was behind him--Andy is very well-loved at the US Open, he's just so charming.
I must say, I'm not too crazy about how Open has started doing what they do at MSG during lulls (i.e., between games) when they play pop music from the '80s to encourage everyone to dance and then turn the cameras on them. Everyone does the lamest dance moves and not because they enjoy dancing--that would be fine. But just to get the camera's attention. They wave and act like idiots--just to get on camera. It just makes me cringe. During the hold for rain, as the rain petered out and the crowd came back, we were sitting there for awhile as they dried off the courts, and this went on for quite awhile. They had these two kids who were just acting ridiculous--jumping around, waving their arms, smiling uncertainly. It wasn't even sincere, they weren't genuinely unselfconsciously enjoying themselves, they just kept looking at the camera and waving at it, trying to get it to turn to them. And then these two young women who were up in one of the boxes wiggling their butts at the camera, lifting their dresses--ugh! Just ugh. It reminds me of when there's a serious news report on TV (a murder or something) and as the reporter is talking somberly to the camera, some moron is standing in the background waving idiotically. People will sacrifice any dignity they have just to be on camera. Guys, this ain't the Knicks. It's tennis. Have some dignity.
That's Andy in the background!
But the best match was my man Andy Roddick against some Latvian guy, Ernst Gulbis. It started out with Andy getting hammered--the Latvian was very good, his returns were incredibly fast. Andy lost 3-6 in the first set. But then he took the second set 7-5 and then just kept going...and going...and going. He kept working, and finding the angles and wearing the guy down. The whole crowd was behind him--Andy is very well-loved at the US Open, he's just so charming.
I must say, I'm not too crazy about how Open has started doing what they do at MSG during lulls (i.e., between games) when they play pop music from the '80s to encourage everyone to dance and then turn the cameras on them. Everyone does the lamest dance moves and not because they enjoy dancing--that would be fine. But just to get the camera's attention. They wave and act like idiots--just to get on camera. It just makes me cringe. During the hold for rain, as the rain petered out and the crowd came back, we were sitting there for awhile as they dried off the courts, and this went on for quite awhile. They had these two kids who were just acting ridiculous--jumping around, waving their arms, smiling uncertainly. It wasn't even sincere, they weren't genuinely unselfconsciously enjoying themselves, they just kept looking at the camera and waving at it, trying to get it to turn to them. And then these two young women who were up in one of the boxes wiggling their butts at the camera, lifting their dresses--ugh! Just ugh. It reminds me of when there's a serious news report on TV (a murder or something) and as the reporter is talking somberly to the camera, some moron is standing in the background waving idiotically. People will sacrifice any dignity they have just to be on camera. Guys, this ain't the Knicks. It's tennis. Have some dignity.
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Date: 2008-09-02 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-02 04:09 pm (UTC)WOW. That is highly improper. That is just Not Done. It's the gentleman's sport. As rowdy as it gets at the US Open, anyone who did that would be booed. Seriously, I've seen it happen.
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