tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post182192090592960624..comments2024-03-22T05:48:33.690-07:00Comments on Uncensored John Simon: TENNIS, ANYONE?John Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00876490457067235124noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-7428547556199058442024-02-09T04:12:37.854-08:002024-02-09T04:12:37.854-08:00Thanks for sharing information It's useful to ...Thanks for sharing information It's useful to me <a href="https://www.yashisports.com/blog/master-your-game-ultimate-guide-to-tennis-balls-machines-launchers/" rel="nofollow">tennis ball</a> <br />cricket groundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05339318241393057431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-52918476302570361652015-01-23T11:24:19.758-08:002015-01-23T11:24:19.758-08:00How do you know if an Adjustable Beds is right fo...How do you know if an <a href="http://topadjustablebed.com/" rel="nofollow">Adjustable Beds </a> is right for you? There’s a good chance that if you are still using a traditional flat mattress, your bed isn’t giving you the comfort, support and relaxation you need.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02864062571423346519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-30008744037704463562014-06-10T02:00:42.735-07:002014-06-10T02:00:42.735-07:00Martina Hingis used to be the one to watch, not on...Martina Hingis used to be the one to watch, not only for physical beauty but also for elegance of play <a href="http://www.tennispronow.com/" rel="nofollow">click here</a> . These days there is rather too much hitting the ball hard from the baseline, and not enough stylish finesse. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06286466280401331874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-48035153504561863822011-07-11T22:16:55.956-07:002011-07-11T22:16:55.956-07:00"...newspapers often refer to him [Novak Djok..."...newspapers often refer to him [Novak Djokovic] as "The Serb," as if he is an ominous and dangerous character in a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Are there no affectionate nicknames for Serbians?"<br /><br />At least they don't refer to him as an "Ethnic Cleanser".Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-85098280876518150102011-07-03T10:04:26.912-07:002011-07-03T10:04:26.912-07:00Novak Djokovic is now Wimbledon champion and is ra...Novak Djokovic is now Wimbledon champion and is ranked No. 1 in world tennis rankings. Yet newspapers often refer to him as "The Serb," as if he is an ominous and dangerous character in a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Are there no affectionate nicknames for Serbians?Joe Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925042164233399553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-14392437083772600162011-07-02T07:52:37.654-07:002011-07-02T07:52:37.654-07:00Wow, you weren't joking about Sharapova! Every...Wow, you weren't joking about Sharapova! Every time she hit the ball, I was reminded of vuvuzelas, Ned Beatty in "Deliverance," and other horrible noises.noochinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584058407655395128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-44993261555650269342011-06-24T09:43:15.041-07:002011-06-24T09:43:15.041-07:00Thanks for saying something nice about Marion Bart...Thanks for saying something nice about Marion Bartoli.noochinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584058407655395128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-45457281121872155812011-06-23T08:14:23.099-07:002011-06-23T08:14:23.099-07:00On the elegance of white attire in the White Sport...On the elegance of white attire in the White Sport, I'm all for that; even if I do like the introduction of lemon-yellow, lime-green and orange-orange balls to the game.Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-28685877504343891542011-06-21T23:59:41.928-07:002011-06-21T23:59:41.928-07:00Another film that featured tennis was The Seven-Pe...Another film that featured tennis was <i>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</i>, with a rather fantastic (though not really all that fantastic) game between a youngish Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) and Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) -- back in the days when players of the White Sport sported trousers and longsleeved shirts (and no mannish Kate Hepburns among them).<br /><br />Which allows me to segue to Julia Georges: one of the only female players, I think, not cursed with "thunder thighs".Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-35788941422733675302011-06-21T08:49:42.443-07:002011-06-21T08:49:42.443-07:00Tennis in art?
Film? Well, Hitchcock's STRAN...Tennis in art? <br /><br />Film? Well, Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN with its famous zoom shot of Robert Walker not following the bouncing ball but obsessively fixing on Farley Granger. Also, 1968's THE DOVE, a short film parodying Ingmar Bergman, in which Death arrives at a family picnic and is challenged to a game of badminton, which he loses. Okay, it's not quite tennis.<br /><br />Literature? Have to be be a few great poems about tennis though none spring to mind. Amazon has TENNIS SHORTS: GREAT WRITING ON TENNIS AND LIFE that includes pieces by Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Anne Lamott, Paul Theroux, John Updike, David Foster Wallace, and others.<br /><br />And Nabokov -- not a Simon favorite, I take it -- played and wrote about the game. Lionel Trilling on LOLITA: "...that in recent fiction no lover has thought of his beloved with so much tenderness, that no woman has been so charmingly evoked, in such grace and delicacy, as Lolita; the description of her tennis game, in which even her racket has an erotic charm, is one of the few examples of rapture in modern writing."<br /><br />But a cruel sport, tennis: love equals zero.Joe Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925042164233399553noreply@blogger.com