Weekend Tennis Roundup
It's certainly been a newsworthy first week at the Miami Open. Novak Djokovic crapped out in straight sets to the casually interested in tennis Frenchman Benoit Paire, who in turn crapped out just as easily to Serbian Filip Krajinovic. Roger Federer lost yet another deciding-set tiebreak, this time to 175th-ranked Thanasi Kokkinakis. It wasn't quite as big of a shock as it sounded given that 21-year-old Greek-Aussie is a talented player on the mend from injuries, but it will cost Federer the No. 1 ranking. Red-hot Naomi Osaka made quick work of Serena Williams only to go down without much of a fight to Elina Svitolina. (I predict the Ukrainian will end up winning it all, further threatening to join the list of Slamless number ones.) "World No. 1" Simona Halep lost early once again, this time to Agnieszka Radwanska. (That would have at least been a semi just a few years ago.) And perhaps my favorite result -- freshly minted Grand Slam champ Caroline Wozniacki won the first set 6-0 only to lose in three to Monica Puig! (I take that back: Venus Williams being up 5-0 only to lose the first set 7-5 and then scrape her way to a three-hour win -- dry vagina and all -- against Kiki Bertens was even more ridiculous.) Yet with all of that excitement on the court, the players' box was where I found the most excitement:
Starting here: Has Thanasi Kokkinakis moved on from Donna Vekić to this pretty blond?
Anyone know what is going on in in Dusan Lajovic’s box? Lajovic -- who plays Benjamin Bonzi of France in the third round -- is awfully easy on the eyes, so this guy seems just right for him.
Venus Williams's hunky man, Nicholas Hammond, had the tits out to cheer her on against Bertens ...
And Jared Donaldson, who lost a nail-biter to dreamy Brazilian Joao Sousa, had his box filled with hunks, including coach Jan-Michael Gambill, JMG partner's, Malek Alqadi and trainer Hamid Johnannes (behind Malek).
And then there was this Crocodiled cutie in Jeremy Chardy's entourage. The commentators couldn't shut up about the woman in the middle -- a model Chardy met at a restaurant during this tournament just one year ago and has already married -- but gave us no info on the beef in the box.
But the best thing to come out of this week was finally figuring out who the guy in Borna Coric's box last week is. Turns out he is Kristijan Schneider, who is part of his new coaching team along with Riccardo Piatti, Dalibor Sirola and Claudio Zimaglia. (Tennis Life notes that this is essentially Milos Raonic's old team.) Although Piatti is the head coach, it seems Kristijan is the guy Borna likes to hang out with, as seen above. And they look even hotter in those jerseys FROM BEHIND.
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