A shout-out to Nick for adding meat to this U.S. Open piece over at The National, which talks about how tennis has finally gone mainstream. And it’s true: before the year’s final major went viral with such classics as Federer‘s “best shot ever” and Serena‘s meltdown (YouTube gold, I tell ya!), our sport was being forwarded on in the form of Mikhail Youzhny‘s Soviet spazzfest.
Ladies and gents, we’ve arrived!
Read more: Tennis: What’s Not to Love? The National, September 17, 2009.
September 22, 2009 at 6:29 pm |
hmm.. at first, i thought that serena’s outburst would be bad for her career, but now, i think that her outburst just made her much more significant! go serena!!
October 2, 2009 at 8:30 am |
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