LOL epic "cause not everyone can win without being a camper" chirp was obviously the best.

I love Sveta. She doesn't take shit and she keeps it real. She also doesn't just tell you what you want to hear, and English clearly isn't her first language. Props.

Amazeballs. Also? How greasy is van Greasy's hair?

In Rafa's defense, it was quite chilly in there. Srsly though, it's not like top athletes of other sports don't do photoshoots etc. I actually think that pic rules since Rafa looks so damn... Retro.

In all honesty, I have a hard time seeing Nole losing either of his matches. Obvs got it against Gilles, and I think home field advantage/no silly business Nole is taking care of Monf. That puts them up 2-0. So you probably need Janko to beat Llodra or Monf (both are tough) or to win the doubles, if you're Serbia. I think it might go down to the doubles, the French have a great team. But if Serbia goes up 2-0, it's basically game over from there.

That's really the greatest explanation of how to be a great #1 as I've ever heard. JJ always made the fart smelling face.

Finally. The WTA logo really needed some more vag in it.

Literally loled at "later guys, I got a thing". Holy fuck Dinara. "Yeah, you know my brother? Yeah. He's a big deal." These pics are ridonk. And poor Bags. Guy looks like a homeless person not a tennis player. Maybe he just misses Cyprus.

Exactly. Hence why I probably say "I dunno" a lot too.

Cheers! Is that me? I tend to do it a lot when I'm thinking... I think. I didn't actually know what we were going to be discussing before hand, so it might have been me doing it a lot. Will try to watch out for next time.

I wish I could laugh at that guy, but I literally was like "AHHH *fistpump into the ground* UNREAL... AHAHA THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!" Men are such psychos.

Debating going on a crusade to find the person who denied us Dinara Twitter love and giving them a thousand paper cuts with a photo of that last pic.

Where do I buy this amazing, life enhancing product?

Thanks for another shoutout! My original plan was debate whether or not hard courts are a neutral surface, and how they effect different players games... but as I got going, I ended up looking more into the complexities of what hard courts are made of, and slight differences of them. The fact that I was bored and dick all else to do, well... that was pretty well the reason. That and I kinda got knee deep into it, so I had to finish. Other thoughts... Both new Caro outfits RULERULERULE. The Fan Child FTW. Fer's Kardashian tweet was tolerable. The shirtless pics? He's falling into every cliche about why Twitter is narcissistic, and why people who don't use it can come to hate it. Fail.

I'm not sure why A-Rad is still rocking the diaper (she was when I saw her in Toronto, too), but she has some pretty unreal legs.

Maybe ask Sam how important her kick serve is, or how she uses it differently on hard courts instead of clay? I'm about as lost as you are when it comes to this, really.

Woe is me. And here I was SO looking forward to watching her not care and losing in the third round to Klara Zakopalova.

Karen. Dearest. You wanted weed, you asked the guy how much it was... and he offered it for free, and you TURNED DOWN free weed? Either you're really depressed, or have had way too many beers.. I mean, it's free weed. C'mon.

I always wondered why clay tournaments didn't. Everyone simply responded "well they can just look at the mark, duh" in response. So I kind of recoiled and was fine with that. But there sure is a lot of argument of "that was the spot!" and sometimes even if the ball was in or not. "The ball was clearly out" and then Kader waves his magical pen to indicate that it was actually in. Hawkeye is what, 99.7% correct? It's also faster. Ball lands, player looks at the spot, sees it's out, and instead of calling the ump down, just challenge the damn thing. If they picked the wrong spot, then that's there damn fault. Rant over.

John and Sam own Dick and Lames so fucking hard it's not even funny.

I wasn't gonna touch this, but FINE. I'll use players I know you wanna watch: 1) Every time Masha DFs 2) Every time Ana catches a ball toss 3) Every time Rafa "vamos!"s 4) Every time Dick argues with the umpire 5) Every time Fed loses a set x2 6) Entire drink if Fed loses before the semis (repeated in succession as necessary) 7) Every time anyone breaks a racquet 8) Every time Serena goes into raging "Hulk pose" x2 9) Anytime whatever channel you're watching talks about Sam/John being the next big thing in American tennis 10) Every time Gilbert invents a word 11) Any time Jo wins a match 12) Entire drink if Fer DFs on set or match point 13) Any time Ernie wins a match 14) Every time Gael is on the ground OK that's all I got. Feel free to add accordingly.

According to Wikipedia, Marat played 687 singles matches, and 216 doubles matches, which is 903 total matches. According to Windows calculator, that's 1.17 a match. So wow.

Have you ever heard of the blog "Mind The Racket"? You really should start commenting on there :)

Good call. Really like that clip, hadn't seen it before.

Tennis has Sven. Rock has Eddie Vedder. Love the Obadiah Parker post too. Me and two friends took a that and fleshed it out to vocals/guitar/drums/bass and played it at a talent show in high school with me on wicked slap bass, lol. Fun times.