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Post by Annie on May 4, 2006 22:46:17 GMT 3
Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!! God I hate that outfit LMAO ;D ;D ;D
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Post by sabz on May 5, 2006 1:38:42 GMT 3
This guy is absolutely BRILLIANT!!! ;D I am gonna miss these blogs soooo much when estoril is over!! Let's hope Marat and Mitya win the title so we can have many more entries hehe.  Thanks for all the photos! |
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Post by yse on May 5, 2006 8:28:02 GMT 3
 Thursday, May 4, 2006 I would like to summarize my entire singles match into one sentence, “Clay is for girls!” I have important things on the agenda, like the “Blogging War” with Bryanne and “Cold War” with Katerina so I can’t be losing sleep over some loss. While Bryanne’s weaponry is her laptop and a squad of writers, Katerina is not so fortunate so I feel like I owe her an apology. Really, the only reason why wrote that is that I was extremely jealous that she picked Marat and not me. She should know that! Besides, it’s not like I said anything bad… I think people should be able to laugh at themselves. In any case, Katerina, I’m sorry! Let’s be friends!!! We can practice on adjacent courts anytime! Now, let’s get to Bryanne. It’s not fair! She gets the whole day to do her blog and I do mine in the evening. I see her with the laptop everywhere! Lounge, press room, even on a tennis court… She should sign up for Blog Addict Anonymous. So she guessed right about me flirting! Boo hoo hoo!!! Logic shmogic… That’s why I hate combined tournaments. Always some smart girl gets in the way… The only way is to get rid of the adversary. (see photo) I guess it’s getting fairly late in the week and everyone is leaving. Elena Vesnina couldn’t take any more abuse in billiards, so she left. So did Rodionova, my best friend when it came to gossip. She probably went to see her BF who is a DJ. Now that’s a smart move! If you want quality dance music for free then just date a DJ. Don’t spend time ripping music off the internet like Dinara Safina. By the way, fans don’t realize how much time tennis players spend online. Dinara probably has every song on the planet into her laptop. Marat downloads so many movies it feels like he is planning to open Blockbuster Video in Moscow. Gael Monfils is nuts over MSN. A couple of days ago he was sitting in the lobby and, I’m not kidding, talking on six MSN Windows at the same time. The guy is like Neo in Matrix. He has no idea what he is writing anymore or who he is writing to. He just puts “lol” and moves on to the next window. The girl is probably telling him that her kittens died and he just says, “lol.” At the same time he is listening to Bow Wow and tries to sing along. The funniest stuff on Earth. A French dude is trying to rap! Impossible to watch without a condescending smile! Then there is ATP trainer Michael Novotny. Sitting in a locker room staring at the screen from 30 cm. away. Hypnotized by Skype, Yahoo! and MSN. His computer is lighting up like a Christmas tree with all sorts of warnings, new message alerts, incoming calls, etc. Between his computer and sniffing all the glue for the taping jobs he is slowly turning into a zombie. People in a press room are a different breed. They are more advanced than aliens when it comes to technology. When you walk in there you see a bunch of tables with laptops and people firing away at the keyboards. It looks more like a third world sweatshop. They have a few big screens in front of them, with matches and scoreboards, and one TV in the middle is playing a Walt Disney cartoon. Ummm… are you writing a story on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? They aren’t the eight people who get into Shanghai at the end of the year! But everyone in this room is equipped with the latest gadgetry. They look like Rambo with all that equipment:. Laptop, cell phone, PDA, beeper, Blackberry, Blueberry, even Strawberry! These guys are ready at any given moment to send, receive, print, copy and download any report on Snow White. Anyway, I had a long day today so I can’t write that much anymore. Two matches, a draining war with Bryanne, and a late dinner with the doubles crew. We went again to the same restaurant and poor lobsters got a heart attack inside an aquarium when they saw us walk in. But it was the crab that should have been scared. I’m sure he’ll be missed! PS - Please check out my web site. |
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Post by Annie on May 5, 2006 9:58:20 GMT 3
Thanks YSE  The greatest start of the day...as always ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Annie on May 5, 2006 10:19:46 GMT 3
Oh this is brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ;D ;D ;D from tennisnews.com
Tursunov's blog a cult hitPonte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA (ATP tour) –California-based Russian Dmitry Tursunov is proving to be one of the most popular bloggers on ATPtennis.com after winning rave reviews from fans and the media for his Estoril Open blog on ATPtennis.com. (Read the blog at www.atptennis.com/en/blog/tursunov.asp)Tursunov mixes his off-court revelations with self-deprecating humor about his on-court performances. After defeating a local 15-year-old lucky loser in the first round of the main draw, Tursunov wrote: “I hear people talking of Nadal being dethroned and that a new sheriff is in town.” He also took a swipe at countryman Marat Safin after they won a tense first-round doubles match: “Marat doesn’t really understand the concept ‘my side/your side’… I went to get some water and fresh towels and while I was gone Marat managed to lose the game.” The tournament’s transportation team has mocked up ‘Wanted – Dead or Alive’ posters for Tursunov after he blogged about drivers exceeding speed limits. Czech Lukas Dlouhy is thought to be planning his own reprisals after Tursunov’s comment about Tuesday’s Players’ Party. “Lukas Dlouhy, rejected by all the models, is playing Tic-Tac-Toe with himself.” With 61,000 page views by mid-week, Tursunov already ranks fifth in the list of most popular bloggers this year and is on pace to move past Jarkko Nieminen (63,070), Ivan Ljubicic (69,540) and No. 2-ranked Mardy Fish (76,910). James Blake’s record 114,940 page impressions from Sydney in January could be under threat. The media also has picked up on the blog. SI.com’s Jon Wertheim said Tursunov was “hysterically funny and exceptionally likable.” Peter Bodo, in his popular Tennis World blog on tennis.com, wrote: “Sizzle Alert! Here’s what’s really hot right now: Dmitry Tursunov's blog.” Portugal’s O jogo and Record national sports papers have both written about the blog. __________________ |
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Post by lena on May 5, 2006 11:15:50 GMT 3
He is absolutely brilliant ;D ;D ;D ATP should thought about a category for next year "Star for Stars" for "Best Blogger" and Dima would win this prize !!! ;D What will I read in the morning when this week is over and Dima will not continue his blog.....   |
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Post by avalon on May 5, 2006 11:19:03 GMT 3
Lets hope the ATP catch on how popular he is and get him to write more. I think his own website will be getting a few more hits in the future  ;D |
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Post by Annie on May 5, 2006 11:20:11 GMT 3
his website is actually rocking from people in the past 2 days LOL ;D ;D ;D
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Post by avalon on May 5, 2006 11:24:32 GMT 3
Dare I say it, it could soon be Marat who? JUST KIDDING! There's room enough for two charismatic, handsome Russians |
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Post by sonya on May 5, 2006 14:14:46 GMT 3
ehehe...this is the way of becoming a someone's fan first,you read his blogs and realise how funny is he ;D then,you take a look at the pics... My heart still belongs to our GREAT Marat, but this has to go in here!!!  WOW!!! I could stare at that stomach all day!!! My opinion on Mitya has now changed mmmmmmm ;D thanks to tita!!! for providing such drool worthy pictures!!! (still love ya Marat hehe ) ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Tish on May 5, 2006 14:19:58 GMT 3
Here here again you have hit the nail on the head avalon...How are you  |
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Post by avalon on May 5, 2006 14:20:57 GMT 3
I think he deserves his own drool thread  |
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Post by avalon on May 5, 2006 14:25:29 GMT 3
Here here again you have hit the nail on the head avalon...How are you Could you not be anything but good being here ;D |
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Post by Tish on May 5, 2006 15:29:10 GMT 3
I swear I have been saying OMFG all week but then I come home and have had a chance to read Dima's blog and all that sh**t is forgotten....Dima is just what the doctor ordered and really good to know that it has been a very popular blog...I think that he has another talent..good writing skills, can write poems albeit said in a rappers voice...  |
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Post by kristen on May 5, 2006 16:36:27 GMT 3
i agree tish....i just love dima's blogs.....it's so full of humor...i could've never imagine him writing like that!...i have fun reading hid blogs!
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Dreams unwind but still it's a state of mind,..I know - Dreams unwind but still it's hard to find - Stevie Nicks...“Marat Safin is a self-tortured genius. He's off the wall with tremendous physical talent. “John Mc Enroe
