[oh yeah i guess]

Originally Posted by hurricanejeanne

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I hope she went out and practiced her ass off after this wake up call.

About half an hour ago one of the Australian AO TV coverage reporters was saying that she was due to be on the practice court very soon, and that she was going to have an intense 2 hour session in light of yesterday's match.

[Natural Joe]

Originally Posted by oh yeah i guess

About half an hour ago one of the Australian AO TV coverage reporters was saying that she was due to be on the practice court very soon, and that she was going to have an intense 2 hour session in light of yesterday's match.

Thanks for the info! Good to hear that it was something like a wake-up call for her after all.

[oh yeah i guess]

And apparently the Hotmess Express is off to Malaysia, first time I've heard that.

[Jane Lane]

Originally Posted by oh yeah i guess

And apparently the Hotmess Express is off to Malaysia, first time I've heard that.

AMEN.

[oh yeah i guess]

I really do hope that's what I heard on TV while they showed Vika training.

[saul1333]

2nd match on RLA. Good luck!!

[Spiritof42]

Originally Posted by Igor_Biscan

Though she said Sam had scouted out Hampton and told her she hadn't played like this in previous matches. He must have been on his second bottle of red when he was watching them cause she'd played exactly like that against U Radwanska, and completely outplayed her sister in auckland before choking 6-7 6-7. It's solid top twenty level and Vika was wrong to think she would necessarily cool off.

I saw the Hampton matches you mention and, as you say, her performance against Vika really should not have come as a surprise at all. This kind of makes me question Sumyk's merits as a coach. It makes it look like he was either being disingenuous or covering up for a botched scouting job.

[Natural Joe]

Originally Posted by oh yeah i guess

I really do hope that's what I heard on TV while they showed Vika training.

yeah, apparently it's true.

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I'm sure he'll be back though...

[Spiritof42]

Originally Posted by hurricanejeanne

On a side note, the Tennis Channel commentators said that Vika's begun working with Rafa's publicist to create a more fan friendly image of herself. We know Vika is awesome, but she needs to show the world that awesome. Hopefully that side of things improves so that people who are indifferent can warm to her and some of the haters can eat shit.

It will be interesting to know what kind of ideas Nadal's PR person can come up with.

Speaking of publicity (or lack thereof), there's something I noticed on the AO website that's been bugging me. Whenever you click on a link, a random player picture gets loaded at the top of the page. Now, after a full week of clicking, I must have seen all the top seeds (male and female) on my screen dozens of times, even the less famous ones - around 20 players in total. Every top seed, that is, except for Vika, current world #1 and AO defending champ. Since I couldn't think of any legitimate reason for not putting her picture in there, I've just taken a look at the source code, and lo and behold, there *is* a Vika banner (link here), it just never shows up for me for some reason, even after hundreds of clicks. Baffling. Either I've been incredibly unlucky, or there's a glitch preventing her picture from loading, which would be rather unfortunate.

[Break My Rapture]

Originally Posted by oh yeah i guess

And apparently the Hotmess Express is off to Malaysia, first time I've heard that.

The Rainbow Peasant gone with the wind?

[Nina.]

Originally Posted by Spiritof42

It will be interesting to know what kind of ideas Nadal's PR person can come up with.

Speaking of publicity (or lack thereof), there's something I noticed on the AO website that's been bugging me. Whenever you click on a link, a random player picture gets loaded at the top of the page. Now, after a full week of clicking, I must have seen all the top seeds (male and female) on my screen dozens of times, even the less famous ones - around 20 players in total. Every top seed, that is, except for Vika, current world #1 and AO defending champ. Since I couldn't think of any legitimate reason for not putting her picture in there, I've just taken a look at the source code, and lo and behold, there *is* a Vika banner (link here), it just never shows up for me for some reason, even after hundreds of clicks. Baffling. Either I've been incredibly unlucky, or there's a glitch preventing her picture from loading, which would be rather unfortunate.

I had Vika a coule of times but most of the time Berdych pops up...I hate Berdych

[hurricanejeanne]

Originally Posted by oh yeah i guess

And apparently the Hotmess Express is off to Malaysia, first time I've heard that.

ALLEZ.

Maybe he can't get lost while he's there.
The Queen of Fuckery does not need the attentions of the Rainbow Peasant. Such attentions simply create more fuckery.

[LUVMIRZA]

Originally Posted by hurricanejeanne

ALLEZ.

Maybe he can't get lost while he's there.
The Queen of Fuckery does not need the attentions of the Rainbow Peasant. Such attentions simply create more fuckery.

This!!! The Rainbow should have to go

[saul1333]

6-1, 6-1. Kuznetsova next

[Jane Lane]

Serve But technically 20 W - 6 UE when you take the DFs out.