tennis galore~

"Never tell anyone how good you are. Let your game do the talking."

- Dale LePrevost

Today's headlines shocked me. Or maybe it is yesterday's headlines that shocked me. Federer lost. to this djokovic person. sorry, I admit, I'm biased. haha. cause of the fact that I hardly watch or play tennis, I just have this one small link with tennis-the acclaimed champion of tennis. I know it's cliched, you know, watching tennis or checking up on tennis news just because of this one guy and it has to be the reigning person still..but hey!You've got to give credit to him yeah? I know and admit that there are many more excellent players out there, and many are amazing players and sportmen(and sportswomen), but there's just something about this federer guy.

Apart from him being a Swiss, there's like so many other reasons that make him so favourable. Like for instance-He isn't very noisy out on the field while playing(or I've not heard him emitt any loud outburts of energy or animalistic shouts as of yet..),His tennis strokes are awesome(can't give much professional opinion on this, but yup, they look terrific), He wears the nicest headbands(which helps in giving him the nice floppy brown hair look),and of course, did I mention he's Swiss?And Roger Federer's such a nice name? haha.All in all, there's just this special quality about him.Oh oh, and he doesn't really show off when he wins? Like he doesn't do crazy things like ripping his shirt off(pity for some fans..badminton players tend to do this..), or swinging his racquet till it whacks someone in the stands..I think all he does is smile that award-worthy winning smile of his and serves the winning tennis ball to the audience. I'm smiling now as I reminisce about it. haha=)

btw,I'm starting to kinda expand my field to people like rafael nadal. He plays really well on clay. Well, these two players got knocked out of the finals for the Australian Open, definitely by superb players(I wanna watch the match between Tsonga and Nadal!), but we'll definitely be looking forward to more amazing tennis from federer and nadal.

haha. provide me with some professional knowledge about tennis and more players, and I'm considering applying for the post of a commentator.

To end,

"This pertains to life as well as racket preparation at the net. Prepare for the worst & you'll always be ready for the easiest."(Dale LePrevost again)

oh, and I like this one too,

"First to the net, first to the pub." - Patrick Rafter