Thursday, August 26, 2004
ELENA DEMENTIEVEA stepped up to serve against Claudine Schaul yesterday in New Haven.
Fault.
Double fault. Love-15.
Fault.
Let.
Let.
Let.
Double fault. Love-30.
Let.
Fault.
Let.
Double fault. Love-40.
Fault.
Double fault. Game, Schaul.
Thirteen serves, none of them in. This is the kind of fun that pro tennis needs!
Fault.
Double fault. Love-15.
Fault.
Let.
Let.
Let.
Double fault. Love-30.
Let.
Fault.
Let.
Double fault. Love-40.
Fault.
Double fault. Game, Schaul.
Thirteen serves, none of them in. This is the kind of fun that pro tennis needs!
Monday, August 09, 2004
I HAD WRITTEN OFF Agassi yet again, when, bam! Another Masters Series title, beating three former No. 1s along the way.
And it's nice to see Amelie Mauresmo playing well. She remains one of the sport's most talented underachievers at the Slam level, perhaps because of her tendency to lapse into Gabriela Sabatini Memorial Physics Experiment mode. You know, where she and Gaby use these huge roundhouse swings while falling over backward, apparently in an attempt to use maximum power for minimum result. Not this week. In the final she steamrolled an Elena Likhovtseva who was playing pretty well herself.
And it's nice to see Amelie Mauresmo playing well. She remains one of the sport's most talented underachievers at the Slam level, perhaps because of her tendency to lapse into Gabriela Sabatini Memorial Physics Experiment mode. You know, where she and Gaby use these huge roundhouse swings while falling over backward, apparently in an attempt to use maximum power for minimum result. Not this week. In the final she steamrolled an Elena Likhovtseva who was playing pretty well herself.
