My hand! My hand in a Nike vid

[louiselux]

At 0.6, that's my hand! In my garden! Hand-based fame at last! It's from a 5 second film I made to wish Rafa luck at the French Open. Total jinxer.

I've been watching a lot of tennis in the past couple of weeks and not posting much about it. I don't know why. In tennisy news, Roger won the Cincinatti Masters on Sunday, beating both Mandy and Novak Djokovic to get there. He's been on a losing streak to both of them, so it was a bit of a surprise to see him do so well. I think it was after the final that he said he's been doing some intensive training ever since Wimbledon and that it was paying off more quickly than he imagined it would. You'd think a man who'd just become the father of twins might let the tennis slide for a bit, but it seems to have pushed him to work even harder.

Rafa is back after his knee injury, yay! He says he sat on the sofa a lot and wasn't allowed to frolic very much on the beach. I feel for him!

Also, I found two fantastic candid close ups of Roger and Rafa, along with some others:






Some dude with his hand sneakily on Roger's backside


Mandy crumpling to all fours as he realises he shouldn't've challenged Roger's serve in the second set tiebreak


Roger waving dorkily at the camera after his finals win

From this woman's flickr - she has hundreds of great shots of Cincy, go and see.

Comments

[best-of-five.livejournal.com]

you're famous!! :D we can have a fame-off between your hands and mb's homosexual blog.


roger's forehand sent me into raptures of joy. as did rafa's solid game in a set + match before he AWOLed against nole.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I kind of think the homosexual blog is always going to win. As it should!

Roger was in hot form! I loved it, and he was all over the court, so smooth... I wonder if Rafa just got tired in the match with Nole? He can't be that fit at the moment, I think. But it was beautiful to watch hi coming alive again against Berdface.