Sep 01 2008
Archive for the tag 'US Open'
Sep 01 2008
Sam’s Club
You go SAM .. Sam Querrey. The stadium is rocking and he is doing fine. Won the second set 7:5, and just broke Nadal back at 4:4 and just held serve, leading 5:4 the third set.
The American sport commentators are fair and most of them are worldly. I just couldn’t forget one tourney that held [...]
Sep 01 2008
Trading chess futures
The 17 years old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is taking the chess world by storm. 17! From Norway. Ranked 6th in the world, with men old enough to be his father. could be #1 if he wins the Grand Slam Chess Final Masters on Tuesday in Bilbao, Spain.
“Whatever its benefits, his education is probably not the key [...]
Sep 01 2008
Fish vs Monkey
Mardy Fish of USA is playing Gael Monfils of France. I like Monfils: loose, casual and acrobatic, can probably scale the Mount Marcy or Algonquin Peak Summit like a monkey. Fish serves and volleys .. so I’m for the American while Pumpkin is for the Acrobat. Mardy is leading two sets to love.
French male tennis players have been [...]
Aug 25 2008
Michelle Obama is ..
The convention in Denver is competing with tennis for my attention - Blake is playing. The repeating vocabulary I heard describing Michelle Obama is ‘beautiful’ and ‘smart’. I won’t dispute her intelligence, a Harvard lawyer can’t be dumb and with $300,000 salary, she has to be smart. But beautiful??
1. It sounds like the over used term ‘classy’ [...]
Sep 07 2007
Men’s doubles final
What a surprise that CBS is broadcasting it live. Too bad neither Mark Knowles nor Justin Gimelstob made it this far with their respective partners, or the pinky cheeked Bryan bros. The winners will split $400k and runner ups perhaps half of that. One of the four players, Pavel Vizner of Czech is grand 37 years old. [...]
Sep 05 2007
The journeyman
The two doubles matches at Louis Armstrong stadium were more interesting than the singles at the center court, not all baseline. I first saw Mark Knowles in Dec 1992 when he turned pro, at the Bahamian Open (yes, there’s a such thing), Aaron Krickstein was there too. Over the years, Mark never rose higher than [...]
Aug 31 2007
US Open .. the girls
Do girls dress up at Flushing Meadow? My random takes, missed few Park Avenue princess, :). Serena was like sleep walk, as if she didn’t want to be there. But managed to win in 2 sets. Justin Gimelstob won his doubles in 2 sets too. The crowds loved him. The fun part of the [...]