Some Australian Thoughts
To ease Jeremy’s stress of being the sole blogger for Grand Slam Tennis Tours I have offered my services to be a guest celebrity writer during the Australian Open. But who is Zac Sargent you may ask? My best description would be I’m to tennis like David Hasselhoff is to being a judge on America’s Got Talent, a complete oxymoron. For those that are Mitch Buchannon fans I apologize.
That being said, let’s get to the meat and potatoes of the Australian Open: The Early Rounds.
The biggest and most obvious take away from this first three days in Melbourne is not the question of whether Roger Federer can regain his world number 1 form, or the lack of Maria Sharipova from the women’s draw, nor that lack of a home grown Australian challenger.
Come on people….
I’m talking about the fact that Rafael Nadal and James Blake have added sleeves to their on-court clothing repertoire. That is right, the guns have been put back in their holsters. Has the great fad of sleeveless shirts in the men’s draw run its course? No more Nadal fist pumps holding the bicep curl pose? No more fabric free fore hands from Mr. Blake? I’m sure after the record highs on days one and two of the tournament Rafa and James wish they could revert back to their old wardrobe. In fact I honestly thought the sleeves where just rip aways for the warm ups. I was almost positive that after the coin toss/racket flip Nadal was going to turn around and tear away the sleeves like Brian Scalabrine coming off the bench to enter a Celtics game taking off his warm up pants. But I was sadly mistaken.
I guess this means I will have to retire my copious amounts of homemade sleeveless t-shirts to catch up with the times. My fiancée will be forever grateful to Mr. Blake and Mr. Nadal. But I’m going to give it one more push! Come on people, I want the sleeveless shirts to come back! That is right, let those puppies breath again! The pain that James Blake “death” and “destruction” must be going through in that Australian heat must be unbearable! It is almost inhumane….
I say “Let them breathe James! Let them breath Rafa! Let them breathe…….”