I've been losing a good amount of sleep so that I can catch at least one match of Open play each night. My take so far:
Andre looks GOOD.
Aw, I feel bad for Monica.
CHANDA! CHANDA! CHANDA! CHANDA!
Serena, Venus and Lindsey still rock my world.
HAHAHAHA JENNIFER CAPRIATI HAHAHA!
Kim Clijsters is a dangerous girl.
I wanna see Lleyton play.
I want this to be the breakout tournament for James Blake. GO HARVARD!
Corretja could beat me on a tennis court, but that's about it.
Too bad Escude hit Aggasi so early.
Fernandez looks like she's rolling AGAIN.
Kournikova HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)
I hoping the lack of British interest in this event renders a tournament as memorable as the 1994 World Cup. Terrible final, mind.
Trying to decide at work today whether Sargsian was the greatest Armenian sportsman of all time; we decided there were probably lots of old Soviet OlympIANS (geddit?) who had a greater claim, we just couldn't think of any. Google would've abruptly ended our idle musing, so wasn't employed.
Dan: with you on Chanda, she could upset Clijsters, but Lindsay? Oh, no - Henin will take her apart, surely?
This should be Federer's year, but that's a nasty looking draw. Vinciguerra shouldn't be too tricky, but then it's the winner of Nalbandian-Malisse (repeat of that brutal Wimbledon semi), followed by Blake or Safin. Poor Rog. Perhaps in SW19 in the summer.
Roddick seems the only threat to Lleyton in his quarter, but Vicente might flummox the Nebraskan. As Clive James wrote of Jimmy Connors in 1979, "he spent so much time trying to straighten out Borg's curves, er, blah blah blah." Can't remember the rest, you get the gist.
Ooh... Kim C & Ms Shaughnessy through to the last 16 already. Roger F a set and a break up, Malisse a set up, Maleeva a set down.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)
One of the following four men will be a semifinalist:
Mario Ancic, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Sargis Sargsian, Wayne Ferreira.
You almost hope it'll be a Ferrero-Ferreira quarterfinal, just for the sake of hearing the announcers stumble over it.
If Fish hadn't lost (he was up two sets to none, 4-1!), there would've been a reasonable chance of having all four men's semifinalists be Americans.
On the women's side, my pick is Clijsters. On the men's, Federer.
― Phil (phil), Saturday, 18 January 2003 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)