Hey if Denzel, man mustn't I.
Photo source: msn.com/AP
Hey if Denzel, man mustn't I.
Photo source: msn.com/AP
Photo source: Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Dita Alangkara
The women's double tournament at the Australian Open has been just incredible throughout. First there was the team of Su-Wei Hsieh(ROC) and Shuai Peng (PROC), who suprisingly enough were the number 16 seed: tennis diplomacy off the table? The first two rounds unfolded pretty much according to the rankings, but in round three Hsieh and Peng took out the number 2 seed Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual while the number 3 seed USA's Lisa Raymond and co lost to France's Nathalie Dechy and co. In the quarters the Hantuyama unit as they are called sent the no. 1 seed home, while Serena and Venus took a little while with Hsieh and Peng. I stopped keeping up at that point, because I saw that Serena and Venus faced Francesca Schiavone and partner in the next round. Francesca Schiavone can be tough, but Serena and Venus handled the team 6-0 6-2. The Hantuyama unit sent Nathalie Dechy and Italy's Mara Santangelo packing. That's good tennis.
Photo sources: (in order) Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Rick Stevens; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Darren Whiteside; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Darren Whiteside; Yahoo! News/ REUTERS/Daniel Munoz; Yahoo! News/ REUTERS/Daniel Munoz; Yahoo! News/ REUTERS/Daniel Munoz; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama; and, Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Darren WhitesideBut that's just the point: In a week's time, I have stumbled into nothing about US figure skating. There's a two hour NBC segment scheduled for 12 hours from now, but that . . . is very strange. In the past, a broadcast a week later would be . . . exhibitions.
Hmmmm.
Round Two: (You have to gain some composure from the Radwanska result for this): number six seed Venus out to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro. (I told you to get composured.)
Round Three: PRC's Jie Zheng takes out Kateryna Bondarenko, while Kutzi takes out her sister. Hmmmm, this bears watching this year: France's Alize Cornet (no. 15 seed) (pictured) took out no. 19 the Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia. France, hmmmm. Alize (please do not even think a French hope in France.) Ana Ivanovic (the no. 5 seed) out. Jelena Dokic 3-6 6-1 6-2 over eleventh seeded Caroline Wozniacki. Marion Bartoli (another French), who I expect to do well this year, on to meet Jelena Jankovic.
Round Four: Marion Bartoli defeats Jelena Jankovic 6-1 6-4. Jelena Dokic on to the quarter-finals of the year's first major 7-5 5-7 8-6 over Russia's Alisa Kleybanova. Jie Zheng retired in the first set, waving through the Russian Kutzi to meet Serena in the quarters. All in all, a superb image surfing op.
Photo sources: (in order) Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Rick Stevens; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Rob Griffith; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Darren Whiteside; Yahoo! News/REUTERS/Petar KujundzicNew York Times: Injuries Force Meissner and Hughes to Pull Out of Nationals. Whatever may happen at worlds in LA, Ca next month, don't be surprised if there is an American ladies figure skating Olympic gold 13 months from now. Don't have time to search to find out what happened with what I thought was to be two nights of prime time coverage on NBC, but thanks for making within slacker get off said butt and get that icenetwork.com subscription he's talked about for more months than it is propitious to recount. 'Da bomb! Way to go.
But what drew me to that place then- I always went alone and always sat alone- was one tune on their box I could find nowhere else: "Trade Winds" by Roberta. Then I was more considerate, and I played it only intermittently (now I'd dropped a role of quarters in and could care less.)
But after just popping my head into the place a couple of weeks ago, I felt a strong compunction to try a search again, for the grazillioneth time. I got home, the impetus was still there, so I started typing: T-r-a-d-e and the search engine clue beneath showed "Tradewind". I had always entered it as two words, so when I saw that I immediately clicked it, and voila! Not only, but searching on showed that there might be Roberta (that's albums (note plural)) I may not have heard. Albums. (Okay, their cds now.)
I've been really calm. It's been 10 days, and I'll go Monday and check at the post office. I'll start with these three, then dig through my . . . albums . . . to check on the others I saw.
This has happened before: I have an obsession to bring the works of Talcott Parsons into the practical. I spent of all of January 1, 2000, and days after searching: nothing. Three years later, I tried again, and I now have an extensive Talcott Parsons collection. (I have finally stopped beating myself over the head at learning, after his death, that he was at Berkeley when I was there. My escape was the graduate social science library, and he was there. Just two questions, three tops!)
Hey, does it get better.
New Jelena news pics. She lost to former world number one Amelie Mauresmo in a tough one 7-6 (11-9) 7-6 (7-5) in the first round of Brisbane on January 5th.
We Dokic fans are a stalwart bunch.
Photo sources: (both) Yahoo! News\AP Photo\Steve Holland