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

[chomiji]

My long-ago-famous hands greet yours!

(When our agency web site went live in the mid 90s, I was interviewed briefly on CNBC as part of a feature on the site .... my hands spent more time on screen than my face did, because they took a shot of my hands clicking away on the keyboard and then the home page coming up on screen, which they used as a teaser just before cutting to the commercial that aired before the actual interview.)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a fellow set of famous hands! :D