Dima Tursunov

[sabz]

This is the first thing I do, read Mitya's blog - it just gets better and better (and might I add - what a picture!!! ;D )

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.
I download loads of stuff too!! hehe good to know that they are techno whizzes!! My itunes is full of songs i don't even listen too! lol

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!
This made me laugh soooo much!! The whole msn thing is sooo me!! my parents dont understand how i do it lol (look i am even using lol! hehe) I think my mulan ladies know wat i am talking about - MSN is a GREAT thing!! ;D
btw i would love to see Monfils rapping to Bow Wow, with the whole french accent - brilliant!

Looking forward to many more blogs from Mitya - i think he should do a recurring role - ooo maybe at Roland Garros ;D , as all the big names are there, he can dish the dirt - just a thought.
DMITRY FOR PERMANENT BLOGGER!!! ;D ;D ;D

[sonya]

sabz said:

DMITRY FOR PERMANENT BLOGGER!!! ;D ;D ;D

i know!!!


btw,that part about comp addicts is hilarious![good to know that we are not the only ones addicted ]

[luxsword]

as a permanent blogger, i guess people would get very different towards him, knowing he might tell us of all they do :lol:

[tina]

sonya said:

sabz said:

DMITRY FOR PERMANENT BLOGGER!!! ;D ;D ;D

i know!!!


btw,that part about comp addicts is hilarious![good to know that we are not the only ones addicted ]

at least I know I m not alone hehe my mulan ladies ;D ;D ;D

[yse]

[bia2209]

personally i have to admit that crack about feliciano lopez was hysterical...i think that was in the entry before last...

[yse]

Blog of the day www.atptennis.com/en/blog/tursunov.asp

Friday, May 5, 2006



So ATP has asked me to tone down on exclamation points! Oh really?!?! You don’t like them?! Maybe that’s how I feel! Maybe I feel like putting exclamation points!!! Maybe I just like them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It smells like Bryanne’s hand has been in it. She’s been turning ATP against my exclamation points!!! The only way to battle it is to put more exclamation points!!!!

Today is a day off, meaning there is no matches for me to play. So I practiced a little bit and the rest of the day Bryanne and I spent taking shots for the videos, some interviews for ATP, etc…

I really have a feeling that the blog is getting popular because of the way drivers act when I get in the car. It seems that they really want to be noticed and try to stand out anyway they can. When we were leaving the hotel this morning another car was driving up. Our driver and the driver from that car both got out as the other car started rolling away. These guys go to extremes to become famous!!!

I guess he didn’t put the car in park and it was pretty funny to watch as the car started moving forward because thirty feet ahead there is a 1950s Rolls-Royce. Ok, ok! I get the point! Sheeesh… You don’t write about them for one day and they get all goofy on you!

At the site Bryanne and I took some photos for ATP and bothered people in the lounge. We also went to shoot the bow and once again I proved to be hopeless. Or so I thought until Bryanne took the bow. I don’t know if it’s physically possible but she shot the arrow into the ground when the target is only ten feet away. Wow!!! That deserves more than three exclamation points but I will resist the urge. Than she had to go type her blog and I was left all by myself but that was until Walt or Waltczek Lantzcerovski saw me and decided to explain to me how your body extracts sugars from your liver rather than your muscles.

Waltczek is a massage therapist and an occasional fitness trainer. This week he works with Nikolay Davydenko. I guess Nikolay hired him to retrain his body to extract glucose from his liver instead of his muscles. Waltczek is Polish. But he is a self proclaimed communist and had to change his name and residence so he can practice his beliefs without Big Brother breathing down his neck. Now he resides in Las Vegas where he opened a small school for marathon runners. After about half an hour of pointless conversation and fruitless attempts to find out why he changed his name I have to go back to the hotel so I get my racquets and go to transportation. Once I get to the transportation desk I get a pen and add couple of things to Bryanne’s “WANTED” poster. She looks so lovely with eyeglasses and mustache!!!



When I got back to the hotel I received some bad news. Marat rolled his ankle and pulled out of doubles!!!!!!! S@*t!!!!!! We had such a good chance to win the tournament!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!

How did it happen?! “I was walking downhill to get a haircut at the site and I rolled my ankle!” he says. How is that possible?! I get my injuries off court as well but at least I’m not in semis of doubles when I get injured. You’ve got to pick the right time to get an injury. At least tell me that the excavator ran you over or a kid shot you with a bow. But not rolling an ankle while walking! How can you expect people to respect you on court when you get injuries like that?! Oh well! Hopefully he will get better for Rome so we can win there.

We reserve the plane for Saturday noon so that means that my obligations with the blog are fulfilled. I have to go pack my bags now and get some sleep. It was fun here in Portugal but all roads lead to Rome!

P.S - I’d like to thank you for logging onto this site to read my blog. Thank you for coming out to tournaments, and supporting our sport. It means a lot to us, players, to know that we make a difference, that we are a role model for someone and that we can leave memories engraved with our names, even if it’s just for a little while. Thank you, thank you, thank you!


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PPPS - Oh, I couldn't leave you without one final thought on driving in Portugal!

Let me tell you about roundabouts. Those sections of the trip are the most “exciting.” And since there is plenty of them on our way to the courts you tend to be a bit petrified. It would almost seem that it’s something unnatural for Portuguese. I guess one day they all woke up and there were roundabouts scattered all over the streets so they have no idea what to do once they get to them. Maybe they are like those rings that showed up in the fields for no reason. Maybe those field rings are also roundabouts! One thing I figured out for myself is that it’s actually a game they play here. It’s called “Dodge the Granny”. So here are some rules that I’ve learned by riding shotgun for a few days.

When you get to the roundabout the people that are entering have to yield to through traffic and that’s where the fun begins. You never know if the car in front of you is going to go or not. Of course you don’t want to be sitting and waiting for the next opening so you try to squeeze in behind the car that’s in front. That’s all fine and dandy as long as the driver in front of you takes off. In Estoril it’s not that simple. They floor the accelerator and then the brakes right after accelerator. I guess the whole idea is to lead the person behind you to believe that you are going to go and then stop on the dime halfway through. It’s actually quite amusing to watch. They have bleachers surrounding the actual site, or the “ring” and people come to watch who is going to kiss the airbag on that particular day.

Of course there is always an old lady with a pickup truck. She is about as hyper entering the roundabout as a bear in hibernation. Once she is in, the game officially started. She sits behind the wheel so that you can only see the knuckles on the steering wheel. Her turn signal is on and she is making lap number seven because she forgot where she entered and where she needs to exit. The windshield wipers are on full speed and her pet cat is spread out with inertia on the side window like a Garfield toy. You see that the game has already begun at the other yield signs and there is some honking by which a driver behind identifies a good move by the car in the front. The point of this game is to sneak through to the other side of the roundabout without hitting other cars. It is really an art of modulating the accelerator and the brakes to trick the old lady and the driver ahead of you, and our driver is the best in the game.

Of course it helps that he has better equipment. The desirable C-230 with optional “Acme InstaStop” brakes, five-star crash rating head-restraints and seatbelts. As good as the granny in the pickup was today she didn’t stand a chance. We got through with plenty of margin and not once did I feel like we were in danger. Of course my eyes were closed, so I might be exaggerating…

[yse]

www.wtatour.com/photogallery/Default1.asp?event=bryannestewart

Others pics from Mitya & Bryanne





From Bryanne Blog

After the filming finished, I convinced the cameraman to let me have a sneak peek of what they had just captured, and by accident he showed me the footage filmed earlier that day in Dmitry's hotel room. There he was wrapped up in a fluffy white bath robe and a head wrap for his freshly washed hair, filing his nails while typing away at his blog. What a sight! Don't think he is ever going to live that down. You will have to look out for Dmitry and my mini flick on the Web site very soon; meanwhile there are photos in the gallery.

[reese]

aww I will miss his blog
Great that they´ll play doubles in Rome. Keep my fingers crossed for Rome ;D ;D

[sabz]

the blog is over gonna miss it - hopefully he will come back soon and do another one!!
thanks yse for all the pics! Dima and Bryanna seem to be getting on well only kidding hehe

"There he was wrapped up in a fluffy white bath robe and a head wrap for his freshly washed hair, filing his nails while typing away at his blog"
looking forward to seeing that lol ;D

[bia2209]

boo hoo...the blog is gone...some one should really talk to him about doing it permanently...or at least every couple tournaments...it's been absolutely hilarious...hopefully he and marat will still be playing doubles at the french.

[luxsword]

i'll especially watch out for ATP/WTA blogs during mixed (joined ? not sure about the word) tournaments... i really liked the interaction between their 2 blogs, that was funny, and probably created even more interest for each one.

[nicole1224]

i agree... im really sad that dima's not going to be writing anymore blogs they were so funny! i wish that he could write blogs everyday! i love them so much!

[pau]

yeah nocole it'll be great if he could write bolgs everyday!!!! I'm going to miss his blogs sooo much!!!

[pau]

Ohhh, I just found this!!, there's a video for dimitry's blog!!!! (marat's in it!!!) here's the link:
www.atptennis.com/en/blog/tursunov.asp
Enjoy it!