For your vest interest: We were all set and ready to make a trophy-bearing Nole, now 27-0 this season, our lead picture on this week’s Trophy Watch. That was until we saw this gem of a photograph with Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario with Barcelona doubles winners Iveta Benesova and Barbara Zahlova Strycova. We want, Arantxa! She’s holding her 2-year-old daughter … Arantxa. Now that we know you wear fur and have named your child after yourself, we must come to Barcelona and sip champagne with you, ASV. Loves it! Oh right, and Roberta Vinci won the singles crown. See her boring troph(ies) here.
Kissing the fellas: How about that artwork on Juan Martin del Potro‘s Estoril trophy? We sure dig it. The painted (porcelain?) cup is what we’d sip our champagne out of while hanging out with a fur-wearing Arantxa in Barcelona. JMdP overwhelmed Fernando Verdaso 6-2, 6-2 in the men’s final.
No one but Nole: While Novak won his home event for the second time in three years, he was aided by Janko Tipsarevic, a valid challenger who had to skip out of their SF match up because of injury. In the final, Djoko took down Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (4), 6-2.
One more shot of Arantxa in our favorite new outfit and Anabel Medina Garrigues’ crystal bowl in Estoril.
Hang ten: Here’s an odd fact that came out of Estoril as Anabel Medina Garrigeus won the title there: she and Venus Williams are the top two clay-court title holders among active players, each notching ten titles. Um, OK. Nonetheless, it was a big week in Portugal fro AMG, who like Djoko, won her second title in three years at this clay event.
Kolya’s car huggin’: This week, Nikolay gets his own post
Because you know you wanted one more peek at the fur.
(Aranxta images by Victor Salgado/BLO. JMdP, Nole and AMG by AP)
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May 11, 2011 at 11:03 am |
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