oh haiye roger.

On my way to Melbourne 🚂💨😀 pic.twitter.com/yYpRh1zfPa

— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) January 12, 2016

have fun!

happy first day of wimbledon!!!

makes me wanna play at mccarren real bad. #tennisreform

second round bloodbath at wimbledon today.

rafa nadal lost in the first round, and we are getting slapped in the mouth with a few more shockers today:

sharapova: out.
isner: out (injury).
the guy who beat nadal: out (injury).
#2 azaranka : out (injury).
tsonga: out (injury).
wozniacki: out.

and in the most upsetting news of the day:

ROGER FEDERER : OUT. ;(

i guess the grass was pretty slippery.

joel, you owe me $500 (million) doll(h)a(i)rs.

Roger Federer had lost six of seven matches to Novak Djokovic, most recently last month in a dispiriting, straight-set affair in the French Open semifinals.

But that was on red clay during a soggy second week in Paris when it was even tougher than usual to breach Djokovic’s formidable defenses.

Wimbledon was rainy, too, on Friday. But Centre Court now has a retractable roof and so Federer, with his suspect back and grand plans, was able to stay safe and dry on his favorite tennis court; able to shift the momentum of a great rivalry back his own way with a stirring and surprising 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory in the semifinals.

“Obviously I’m ecstatic; I’m so happy,” Federer said. “I played a great match today.”
...
At age 30, Federer, the smooth-moving and enduring Swiss champion, is now just one victory away from tying William Renshaw and Pete Sampras with a seventh Wimbledon singles title. He is also only one victory away from reclaiming the No. 1 ranking. (via)

flashback

remember this?

it just popped into my head. unfortunately.

wimbledupdate!

oh no. both williams sisters lost today. and so did #1 seed, something wozniaki. so the ladies' draw just got BO-RING. better luck on the doubles court, girls. ;(

on the gentlemen's side, who's still in?
all of 2Pz favorites: feddy, rafa, djokovic, and that scottish idiot, andy murray. (djv, tell everyone your massacre story, so i can make massacre jokes when he inevitably loses another wimbledon!)

who's out?
every american except mardy fish. (?)

right now:
rafa's 2 games away from defeating del potro.
feddy's up two sets to one on some no-name.

and now you're all caught up!

guess what started today!

it's wimbledon! my favorite tennis event of the year! nadal and venus are getting things started today. free live streaming on espn3.com.

team roger or team rafa?

In their head-to-head matches, Nadal has won seventeen, Federer eight. Nadal has now won six of their eight Grand Slam final showdowns. Yes, but take away the overall results on clay (Nadal, 12–2), one argument goes, and the Fed emerges with a 6–5 edge on grass and hard courts. But Nadal, crucially, had to go through Federer to win a Slam on grass, Federer's fiefdom (en route to his first Wimbledon, in the greatest match of all time — no quotation marks needed there), whereas Roger's sole French, c'est triste, mais c'est vrai, is his only because he never had to face Nadal. Nadal, moreover, won their only hard-court Grand Slam final, the 2009 Australian. If any further proof were needed, there was the 2007 "Battle of the Surfaces" exhibition match, played on a specially constructed hybrid court with grass on one end, clay on the other. Guess who won?

The truth, I suspect, is that we keep saying Federer is the best ever because we need it to be so. We need to believe in the triumph of the beautiful, that the grace he embodies isn't merely incidental to his success. Because tennis, even as it appears forever on the verge of degenerating into mere athleticism (cf. the joyless gruntfest that has been the women's game of the past half decade or so), can never quite escape its subtle relationship to art — to sculpture, say, even to dance. (Attending a tennis match is even a little bit like going to the opera, what with the hushed deportment.) Nadal's two-handed backhand, so powerful that Federer once said it was like facing someone with two forehands, could never be called beautiful. But the majestic sweep of Federer's increasingly anachronistic one-hander, so ruthlessly victimized by Nadal's tsunamilike topspin, has the drama of a grand gesture. In this dialectic tennis resembles soccer, where greatness can be achieved via mere winning (Manchester United) but immortality is reserved for those who win the beautiful game beautifully (Barcelona). (via)

tenis en agua

roger federer and rafael nadal played a little tenis on a floating court somewhere in the middle east which is the only place where people can afford to buy this kind of publicity. oooh except for china. it might be china. via.

perfecto, you two.

via

everybody just loves it when he does this

roger federer :: tweener :: us open

roger federer trick

tennis celebs dont believe its true. what do you think?

worldcupdate!

UPDATE 2 : ok, feddy won the last set 6-0. jeez, don't SCARE me like that.

UPDATE!!! federer has managed to win the third and fourth sets, making it 2 sets each.

toooooooot tooooooOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOooootttt!!!!

cristiano ronaldo just beat north korea 7-0! toot!!

click here to see a video of him making a goal with his neck. that's how they say it in soccer, right? making a goal?

in other news, chile and switzerland are currently tied, and espana hopes to climb out of the depths of their emBEARassing loss to switzerland later today, when they play honduras. viva espana! (not you, nadal.)

and zomg in other other news, roger federer is down 2 sets in his first match at wimbledon! HFS! it's 5-5 int he 4th set. i'll keep you posted.

SPORTS!

now that's a sport i can get behind.

guess what happens on monday...

WiMbLeDoN!! 

no ties. guaranteed. can't WAIT!

australian open update

roddick is out because his shoulder tingled (enjoy the shirtlessness)

nadal is out because he was losing and his knee made it impossible for him to win

andy murray wants to win a grand slam for once, but federer is still around... so.

source

on the ladies side, justine henin is looking good. her inner voice is positive.

serena and venus are probably going to have to play each other to see who gets to the finals. those matches are always much more boring than they should be.

source

what a surprise!

joel and i wont be able to blog today because we just got some free courtside tickets to the US open, thanks to joey!

roger federer is playing. AND serena! omg.
brb tennis!

have 2 extras. call me if you want them in the next hour.

the US open...

...starts tOdAy!!!

look out, venus and serena...

roger federer and his wife, mirka, just had twin little feddy girls!!!!

thx starla.

look at nymag...

...caring about tennis.

an interesting take on andy roddick's recent success and subsequent short-falling at wimbledon.

congrats Fedy

did you watch that tennis? it was so good. i only wish that they both could have won. oh well, as it turns out, Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick (5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14). now roger has won 15 grand slam finals, more than anyone else ever. congrats to him for real. and another big congrats to roddick for making it to the finals and playing toe to toe with one of the greatest players in history. and only losing serve once. good thing nadal wasnt there because now Fed is number one in the world again.

im going to get some of these to wear next time i beat kylie at tennis.