I just couldn't resist :P
Hopefully Dinara bounces back from this dreadful loss lol.
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Here's photos of Serena Williams with the 2009 Australian Open trophy during the on court presentation plus the post match press conference.
Serena will also become the #1 ranked player in the world once the rankings are updated on Monday.
Continue reading for heaps of photos! ["heaps" means lots and lots and lots more photos]
Photos via Mark Baker.
Serena won 6-0, 6-3.
Lol there's nothing else I can say about this match :P Congrats Serena on her 10th singles grand slam title!
First of all: Fernando Verdasco... WOW! I can't praise him enough. I thought Nadal would have it easy after Nando started cramping early in the 4th set but he still fought on. At first I just reckoned Nando was another cute looking tennis player, but I've certainly changed my mind! My gosh this boy can play! Now I can start using other words (apart from cute) to describe Fernando.... heart, fighter, courage.... and what a serve he's got, plus that forehand to back it up!
In the end, it was Rafa's fitness and endurance that prevailed. The 5 set victory took over 5 hours to complete and was high quality stuff for every minute of it! Nadal won 193 points to Verdasco's 192..... Verdasco hit 95 winners to Nadal's 52 - it's just insane to hit that many winners against an opponent like Rafa. If I'd have to use the word "epic" to describe anything, it'd be this match! Now it's a Nadal vs Federer final. Rafa is just too good at the moment - I seriously can't see old Fed winning this.
Vamos Rafa and let the Na-Doll Domination continue!
Bonus! Nadal changed shirts during the match. Continue reading for the pics :P
That's right! Aussie cricketer Michael "pup" Clarke is now modelling for Bonds underwear alongside retired tennis champ Pat Rafter. In the commercial, Clarke is seen playing tennis against Rafter before taking off his pants and catching a lobbed ball in his undies. Ok... so it has nothing to do with tennis and the ad is quite pointless, but at least you get to see Michael Clarke shirtless lol.
Continue reading to see the video ~
Serena Williams
versus
Dinara Safina
Head to head: Serena leads 5-1
Last year, these two met 3 times and Serena won all three of those matches. Having said that, Dinara also lost to Zvonareva in all their matches last year but beat her handily in the semifinals.
The "hunger" factor: Serena is going for her 10th grand slam title, whilst Dinara is going for her first.
Experience: Serena will be playing in her 13th grand slam final and her 4th Australian Open final. This will be Dinara's second grand slam final.
Betting: Betfair has Serena leading at $1.45 to Dinara's $3.15
Serena is in ominous form, whereas Dinara was still spraying unforced errors in her SF match. All signs point to Serena winning this match tomorrow, but as always, tennis can be pretty unpredictable.
READ MORE...Head to head: Serena leads 5-1
Last year, these two met 3 times and Serena won all three of those matches. Having said that, Dinara also lost to Zvonareva in all their matches last year but beat her handily in the semifinals.
The "hunger" factor: Serena is going for her 10th grand slam title, whilst Dinara is going for her first.
Experience: Serena will be playing in her 13th grand slam final and her 4th Australian Open final. This will be Dinara's second grand slam final.
Betting: Betfair has Serena leading at $1.45 to Dinara's $3.15
Serena is in ominous form, whereas Dinara was still spraying unforced errors in her SF match. All signs point to Serena winning this match tomorrow, but as always, tennis can be pretty unpredictable.
Ana Ivanovic's advert for Rolex
Here is a new photo of Ana Ivanovic's Rolex promotion. Ana recently did a photo shoot for Rolex and various images from the shoot will be used in an advertising campaign which will be launching soon. I thought her first photo was pretty hot, but this one is even better!
Source: AnaIvanovic.com
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Hamish & Andy had a tennis date with Jim Courier as featured on Channel 7 today :P They decided to "distract" Courier with their shirtless bods and camouflaged blue paint to try and win the match lolll.
Continue reading for some photos of Hamish and Andy putting blue paint on themeselves and each other.
Heaps more photos + a video from Fox
PS. As you may be aware, Hamish & Andy have a CD out in stores called Unessential Listening. I bought it out of curiosity, and it turns out its not even a music CD. Silly me but, my gosh, it's hilarious!
Polish tennis star Marta Domachowska had her first major photo shoot session recently.
From the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour article:
Domachowska, 23, joined wunderkind photographer Mateusz Jerzyk at modeling agency GAGA's photo studio in Poznan, Poland to shoot a wide variety of looks for management agency Renaissance Tennis Ltd. The alluring shots will be used in everything from her new website, mdomachowska.com, to print posters and autographed cards.
Marta is currently ranked 61 in the world, but is set to drop as she lost to Sania Mirza in the first round of the 2009 AO (and was defending points from the 4th round). Let's hope she bounces back!
More pics from Marta's photo shoot below...
Marta Domachowska official website: here
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Whilst looking for shirtless pics of Tsonga from his match against Blake (as per requested lol), I stumbled across these pics of comedian Andy Lee (from the Hamish & Andy show)! Andy and his supermodel girlfriend Megan Gale watched Tsonga defeat Blake two days ago.
Continue reading for a few more pics of Andy and Megan at the Australian Open.
Unfortunately, no shirtless pics of Jo Wilfried just yet :P
