Category — Tennis

India’s best Olympic medal hope, the tennis doubles team of Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes are not exactly best buds right now — Mahesh says he doesn’t want to pair with Leander because Leander is off doing other things instead of going to tune-up tournaments with him — but Leander believes that they can bring home a gold medal for the second most populous country in the world. [Ooops, sorry for the very long sentence.]

Will these two settle their differences in time to go for the gold? Let’s wait for the next chapter.

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Haha. We like it when our favorite athletes get surly like our favorite cantankerous aunt.

Sharapova, the most popular tennis star (yeah she’s more popular than Roger Federer), is criticizing the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for forcing her to do a four hour commercial shoot a day before a tennis tournament. She’s also asking her fans to vote on what she should do.
Here’s the statement published in her website:

I want all my fans to know that the WTA Tour is forcing me and several of the other top players to do a 4 hour commercial shoot for WTA Tour marketing materials. They want me to do this shoot on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday of the Rome tournament after flying 12 hours from LA.

I have set my own personal rules when is comes to doing shoots and I never do shoots before tournaments because they are mentally draining and I want to just focus on my tennis. Now the WTA is telling me if I don’t do this shoot they will fine me over $300,000. As you can see the WTA Tour loves to fine players.

To be honest, I would love to do this and help promote the tour as much as possible, but to force me to do this shoot the day before a tier 1 tournament is just not right. I am interested in what my fans think I should do?

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Now that the International Olympic Committee has given permission to Olympic athletes to blog about the Games, who would you like to read?

For us it would be Dmitry Tursunov. He’s one entertaining blogger who knows how to dish out on his fellow athletes. Too bad he’s not been updating his ATP site. We’d like to read Roger Federer too, if ever he blogs, but we’d rather see him win a gold medal because he’s not been winning anything lately.

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