(Ed. Note: This is old now, obviously, but Rick's been gone and we wouldn't dare deny him the opportunity to write about this.) OK, but seriously, who hasn't done this? In case you haven't seen the video yet, here's Mikhail Youzhny, upset with a shot in his match against Nicolas Almagaro at the Sony Ericcson Open in Key Biscayne, beating himself in the head repeatedly with his own racket.
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With baseball just a few weeks away, Selection Sunday just around the corner and the madness that is the NBA Western Conference, what better time to check in with ... tennis!
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The art of the tennis grunt is a delicate one. You want to get across the gutteral utterance, the growl, while still seeming, you know, kind of feminine. Think more of a howl than, say, a Howard Dean "yeagggghhhh!" But it's just part of the sport, you know? It makes tennis more fun. But not in Australia.
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It's 3:48 in the am and I'm preparing to entertain the shit out of you all weekend long, but I'd be remiss if I didn't alert all those awake to the goings on in Melbourne. Roger Federer is down a set to Serbian Janko Tipsarević who came into the night paying out at 180/1 to win the third round match. Of course Federer has just broken and held in succession to take a lead in the fourth set. It's looking as if we're headed for a climactic fifth set and ESPN2 will be broadcasting sans commercials (because nobody's watching!). Bud Collins is awake so you should be too. Follow after the jump for some visual incentive in the form of Tipsarević's countrywoman Ana Ivanovic who won earlier tonight over Katerina Srebotnik. Enjoy... (image via Getty)
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For the majority of her yearly tournament appearances, 17-year-old Austrian tennis star Tamira Paszek manages to keep the twins indoors, as they say. (OK, no one says that but me). But when the Australian Open rolls around, things change. She's out there, Jerry! And she's lovin' every minute of it!
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We should have seen it coming: It seems that the Russian Mafia may have infiltrated pro tennis (this surprises me: I would have guessed chess). But don't worry, sports fans; we have our best man on the case. John McEnroe. The former American great points to questions surrounding tennis stars such as Russia's Nikolay Davydenko — the fourth-ranked player in the world who is being investigated by the ATP after a defeat in Poland in August — Alessio di Mauro of Italy and Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, who some think may have fixed matches.
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Latest by StingrayCharles: Lleyton Hewitt and a truckload of cigarettes - why didn't i put two and two together...his low, low prices must have blinded me. more »
You might remember tennis player Richard Gasquet's loud proclamations that he does not like doing it with dudes. Fair enough. But it now appears Mr. Gasquet is in serious danger of protesting too much.
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When you think of someone being charged with "crimes against nature" in today's society, usually the offense involves the dissolution of the ozone layer due to careless plastic factories or those cheap bastards who refuse to purchase the energy-saving light bulbs that resemble sex toys. Or, if you're in Raleigh, North Carolina, it means that you're a popular N.C. State male tennis player who wantonly climbs into bed with one of your teammates at 3 a.m. to give him him a surprise wake-up blow job. More »
Dylan Stableford writes occasionally about tennis for Deadspin. Sometimes we're tempted to call his column "Droppin' A Deuce With Dylan Stableford." We are not sure why.More »
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In case you were wondering — and we doubt you were — what we thought of that Sampras-Federer match the other night. [
