My hand! My hand in a Nike vid
Aug. 25th, 2009 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxAt 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.
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Date: 2009-08-25 12:44 pm (UTC)Sneaking hand-bum action, yay!
Alas, poor Mandbot. His servers failed him.
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Date: 2009-08-25 12:47 pm (UTC)roger's forehand sent me into raptures of joy. as did rafa's solid game in a set + match before he AWOLed against nole.
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Date: 2009-08-25 12:54 pm (UTC)And great photos. Awww, Rafito. Saturday's match was unbearable between him and Nole - I snoozed through most of the first set and I was so glad I did. Stupid tennis, at times like that I realise that actually I hate it.
But not really, dammit. Sometimes it would be easier if I did!
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Date: 2009-08-25 01:56 pm (UTC)I literally can't believe that guy's hand placement. He's lucky Rafa didn't run out and punch him in the face.
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Date: 2009-08-25 01:59 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-08-25 02:01 pm (UTC)I know what you mean - it would be a lot easier actually to find it just boring.
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Date: 2009-08-25 02:39 pm (UTC)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.)
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Date: 2009-08-25 07:57 pm (UTC)That's VERY cool.
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Date: 2009-08-25 10:07 pm (UTC)i literally gasped at that pic of rafa. the one of rog is beautiful too. good finds, lou.
wow, this is the first lj comment i've left in ages. what the hell even are all these icons?
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Date: 2009-08-26 05:05 am (UTC)Lovely message too, darling. :D
I'm just gunna camp in this post for a while and look at Roger and Rafa's faces. *___*
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Date: 2009-08-26 08:32 pm (UTC)How are you, Berry? Roger has been looking awesome today in NYC. As the dude in the interview says 'with one win at the USO, Roger will surpass career earnings of $50 million.' God.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/32570041
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Date: 2009-08-27 11:01 am (UTC)Lovely shot of your hand BTW.