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astonish's post on Andy this morning, I was feeling cheerful. Sleeping on it hadn't really left me less confused but then she got it exactly and yeah, everyone gets frustrated, why shouldn't Andy? Mulled it over and concluded, the words actually leaving my mouth without me touching wood, "If everyone was like Roger, we'd all have died of boredom by now."
That was not permission for Roger to be less like... well, Roger. Most. Emphatically. Not. Losing the first set? Baghdatis is playing well, brilliant, but this is Roger, in a Slam final. This isn't Andy who can be the best and worst player to watch ever, usually all in the space of one match; this is Roger who just doubled faulted to give Baghdatis a break point. AND JUST GOT BROKEN.
THE SKY IS FALLING.
edit: Also, my take on the latest in the Andy saga? I think it explains more than it doesn't. Andy called the tournament director, asked if they had wild cards which they didn't, jokingly said something along the lines of "Any space in the qualies?", got a yes, said "Hhhm" and then went to Dean with the "hey why don't I play qualies?" Dean looked at him like he'd gone crazy, but Andy was on a roll by then and flattened any objections. They got out there to have a look around, Dean just waiting for the steam to run out of Andy's enthusiasm, only to find the press had exploded on them and suddenly the whole world was screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING (hey, deja-vu Roger *glares*} ANDY RODDICK IS PLAYING QUALIFIERS, HUMAN SACRIFICE, CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER, MASS HYSTERIA..." etc. To which Andy said "..." (That's the sound of the steam running out of enthusiasm by the way) and realised um, actually it'd been one of those ideas that seemed good at the time, and promptly backed out before it got any more crazy. And that nasty little article up there is why I react violently every time anyone suggests me going into journalism. This is Andy okay? The guy who gave away a match point last year because he knew it'd been out and he wouldn't accept winning like that? The guy who never, ever whines in his press conferences (unless it is of course, understandably, about the press themselves)? The guy who gets the worst shit in the world from the press, with perhaps the exception of poor Henman and we're sitting here, agreeing with the vultures who are the ones constantly giving him that shit? It was one little idea that got blown out of all proportion! My flatmate decided her and a friend should go to Canada for a week this January, they found a hotel, found flights, found the money - and did they go? Did they hell, because it was one of those silly little ideas that are never really on the cards. Only the difference for them is that it didn't get splashed all over the national press.
All that article shows is that there are some complete and utter cockroaches among the press who don't when, to steal the words from the mouth of another blond guy who wasn't afraid to speak his mind, to shut the hell up.
Roger, if you lose this set I will feed you piece by piece to the koalas. I kid you not.
astonish's post on Andy this morning, I was feeling cheerful. Sleeping on it hadn't really left me less confused but then she got it exactly and yeah, everyone gets frustrated, why shouldn't Andy? Mulled it over and concluded, the words actually leaving my mouth without me touching wood, "If everyone was like Roger, we'd all have died of boredom by now."That was not permission for Roger to be less like... well, Roger. Most. Emphatically. Not. Losing the first set? Baghdatis is playing well, brilliant, but this is Roger, in a Slam final. This isn't Andy who can be the best and worst player to watch ever, usually all in the space of one match; this is Roger who just doubled faulted to give Baghdatis a break point. AND JUST GOT BROKEN.
THE SKY IS FALLING.
edit: Also, my take on the latest in the Andy saga? I think it explains more than it doesn't. Andy called the tournament director, asked if they had wild cards which they didn't, jokingly said something along the lines of "Any space in the qualies?", got a yes, said "Hhhm" and then went to Dean with the "hey why don't I play qualies?" Dean looked at him like he'd gone crazy, but Andy was on a roll by then and flattened any objections. They got out there to have a look around, Dean just waiting for the steam to run out of Andy's enthusiasm, only to find the press had exploded on them and suddenly the whole world was screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING (hey, deja-vu Roger *glares*} ANDY RODDICK IS PLAYING QUALIFIERS, HUMAN SACRIFICE, CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER, MASS HYSTERIA..." etc. To which Andy said "..." (That's the sound of the steam running out of enthusiasm by the way) and realised um, actually it'd been one of those ideas that seemed good at the time, and promptly backed out before it got any more crazy. And that nasty little article up there is why I react violently every time anyone suggests me going into journalism. This is Andy okay? The guy who gave away a match point last year because he knew it'd been out and he wouldn't accept winning like that? The guy who never, ever whines in his press conferences (unless it is of course, understandably, about the press themselves)? The guy who gets the worst shit in the world from the press, with perhaps the exception of poor Henman and we're sitting here, agreeing with the vultures who are the ones constantly giving him that shit? It was one little idea that got blown out of all proportion! My flatmate decided her and a friend should go to Canada for a week this January, they found a hotel, found flights, found the money - and did they go? Did they hell, because it was one of those silly little ideas that are never really on the cards. Only the difference for them is that it didn't get splashed all over the national press.
All that article shows is that there are some complete and utter cockroaches among the press who don't when, to steal the words from the mouth of another blond guy who wasn't afraid to speak his mind, to shut the hell up.
Roger, if you lose this set I will feed you piece by piece to the koalas. I kid you not.
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Date: 2006-01-29 09:48 am (UTC)Federer looks so UNCOMFORTABLE.
Roger federer.
He never looks uncomfortable!! THE SKY IS INDEED FALLING
Or possibly the world is ending...
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:12 am (UTC)It will end if he loses this final. Okay, maybe it won't *quite* but it will be a whole new level of weirdness in the world of tennis.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:15 am (UTC)If he does I think I might cry, I just adore Roger.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:20 am (UTC)Me too. This is *Roger*, he's not meant to lose these things.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:22 am (UTC)I actually just hit my head on that last shot, Roger looks so...*cries* I can't watch this!!
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:47 am (UTC)I'm a little less stressed now. Won't be happy until he's officially won and holding the trophy but... and having said that he's given Baghdatis a break point. Why,/i> Roger?!
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:52 am (UTC)I'm watching Baghdatis and then watching him and STILL Federer does not look flustered! He's a sweaty mess in the court and Federers just..calm and collected I don't know how he manages it when his fans are practically evaporating on the spot.
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Date: 2006-01-29 11:24 am (UTC)If Roger ever gets bored of tennis, he'd has a fantastic career waiting for him in poker. No one would *ever* be able to guess what he was thinking. :)
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Date: 2006-01-29 11:34 am (UTC)Even with the severely outnumbered fanbase in the audience, plus he has no dancing Cypriot thats not fair! :P
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:00 am (UTC)At least he broke back.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:14 am (UTC)That helped, oht hat defnitely helped. At least he hasn't completely forgotten how to be Roger.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:20 am (UTC)And Andy-wise...I'm just confused now. What really bothers me to be honest, is that the way the first article quoted him, makes it look like he believes he should be given preferential treatment at someone else's expense and that...isn't him.
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:56 am (UTC)That's just it, it *isn't* him and I'm a little mad at myself for letting one out-of-context quote in an article by people I've ranted about at length make me so much as wonder about him. Whatever he said in the heat of the moment, out-of-context or not, I think he'd have turned down a wild card if someone had had to withdraw to give it to him. From what I've seen of Andy, I don't think he could have played knowing it was at the expense of another player, and until I see non-press-twisted evidence to suggest he's turned into a brat, then I'm on his side all the way.
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Date: 2006-01-29 11:03 am (UTC)I think my problems are A) I always worry and B) I love my sportsmen, I really do. When a player, whichever sport, is a gentleman, it makes me a happy and swoony lady.
And when I hear that about Andy, who's probably one of the nicest players on tour?
I worry and stress and OMG Roger I love you!
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:01 am (UTC)Though, Roger is playing a little better now, at least. He did break back.
*touches all wooden things*
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:17 am (UTC)Hopefully it was just a little blip. A little blip at the absolutely appalling time of him trying to not-lose the first set but a blip. Please, oh god *please* let him remember how to play like Roger Federer sometime soon.
*clings to her wooden desk*
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:28 am (UTC)Hopefully, yes, he has to remember to how play like Roger sometime soon. He does, because otherwise I might cry.
My desk isn't wood. It's fake wood. Hopefully that still counts.
And re: Andy, it's not what he did which annoys me. Perhaps it was just an offhanded comment that got out of hand because this is the media, it's his attitude, the way how he seems to think he's entitled to a wild card that's already been handed out. He just seems like a spoilt child. And I think it's out of character for him because like you said, after matches he never blames anyone or anything other than himself and he did give up match point. It's not the Andy I'm used to seeing. That said, it's Andy. I'm gonna adore him whatever.
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Date: 2006-01-29 11:22 am (UTC)Looks like he's remembered that he's Roger again. About time! I would've cried too if he hadn't.
*peers closely at her desk* You know, I think mine might be too! Ack! Though it must have real wood in their *somewhere*, so it's got to count.
I think I was shocked by the whole 'spoilt child' vibe too, because it seemed that way and I just couldn't understand what was going on. But reading that other article this morning reminded me that the press really *will* do anything for a story regardless of who they're portraying badly in the process and why the hell was I going along with them, sitting here and being baffled by my almost-possibly-sometimes-my-favourite player turning into a spoiled brat overnight, on the basis of a single, out-of-context quote? It's like my worst enemy whispering something nasty in my ear about my best friend and me believing them unquestioningly. I think this reminded me more than ever that I will always be on Andy's side. :)
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Date: 2006-01-29 11:36 am (UTC)I'm so glad he remembered that he's Roger. And it only took him two sets to realise that! Silly boy.
Hopefully, yes. I know mine's fake wood though. I think my shelves are also fake wood. I'm not sure if I have any real wood! But I think fake wood works too, it must do.
He really does sound like a spoilt brat though, as though he has to get his own way. Maybe it was taken out of context and maybe he was just pissed off. But I still can't get that spoilt brat thing out of my mind. It's true though, they really will do anything for a story, no matter how true it might be. Except, I do believe this, because Andy has just been getting more and more frustrated with everything tennis related and it's so sad. And I hate to say it. Maybe I don't believe everything but there is some underlying truth to it - Andy's frustration more than anything. Andy has been my favourite player for too long to give up on him now.
But YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ROGER!
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:17 am (UTC)January has just been a bizarre month for tennis. Roger's not playing like himself,*knocks on wood* the women's side having drama and injury pullouts of a Grand Slam FINAL, Nicolas Kiefer etc.
I can't wait for Febuary to come already.
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Date: 2006-01-29 04:33 pm (UTC)Angry!Andy gives me plot bunnies. Hemhem. I want a pissed, angry-at-the-world-Leytonesque-Andy in his next match against Federer. Mwahaha.