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Look in the other court, it’s Nietzsche-reading Janko Tipsarevic playing doubles. He has a tattoo of a quote from Dostoevski.

I’m reading the entries right now.

jake: I am in total agreement on the one-handed backhand, and Richard Gasquet’s is beautiful. Do not lose hope: I rooted for Goran Ivanisevic for years and years and he finally won Wimbledon. I like the romcom tone of your story and approve your movie choices. What a great idea to turn off the subtitles of The Earrings of Madame De and have Richard do the live translation. I would like to watch Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev or Solaris with Marat Safin and have Marat translate.

macbookpro a.k.a. michaelcorleone: Brilliant! The tennis history is solid and you really get into the mind of the tennis wife/girlfriend. In this case a twisted bitch in a sports update of the Greek classic Lysistrata.

turmukoy: Nakakatuwa ang love letter mo kay Martina Hingis. Nakaka-miss si Hingis kasi hindi naman siya kalakasan pero ang talas ng utak niya. Yun nga lang, lumakas ng katakut-takot ang mga kalaban at kahit mas matalino ka mahirap nang mang-gulang. Nakakaaliw ang mga presscon ni Hingis noon. Sabi niya parang lalaki daw kung maglaro si Amelie Mauresmo. Sabi ng media, Mukha siyang lalaki? Sabi ni Martina, Hindi, mas malaki nga si Serena. Natuwa din ako noong naglaro sila ng doubles ni Kournikova sa Wimbledon ngayong taon, at noong nililista ni Kournikova ang mga injury niya para sa media, sabi ni Martina, “I don’t want to hear about it.”

michaelcorleone a.k.a. macbookpro: Tennis noir! Yes, we are partial to the slightly perverse.

sophia_abrenica: This format would work better with a real person. This is why I hang out with insane people; the conversations are always bizarre.

kindler: I’m impressed. I would watch the movie. It has a Claude Chabrol-ness to it.

miss_o: Interesting plot for a crime thriller, the details of the mental condition just have to be worked out. To make it more complicated, your protagonist could also have false memories. Hala! What really happened, and what did he make up to explain events to himself?

The winner of Game, set, match is macbookpro. Congratulations, you get a copy of Andre Agassi’s book, Open. But I also like the entries from jake, michaelcorleone and kindler, so let me see if there are more copies of Open at the store. macbookpro, jake, michaelcorleone and kindler, please post your full names in Comments (they won’t be published) and I’ll update you on the prize situation.

By the way, about the 4th anniversary non-event: looks like it will be a non-event. The thought of mingling with a large group makes me want to flee. Perhaps small groups, picked out from the weekly entries to the LitWit Challenge. So macbookpro, jake, michaelcorleone and kindler: If you’re free and in Manila, why don’t we all meet for coffee so I can present your prizes? Let’s work out a schedule. Tell me when you’re free for coffee in Rockwell, Greenbelt, or Megamall.

The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by our friends at National Bookstore. LitWit Challenge 3.6 is coming up.

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kindler, I’ll email you when I’m in your neighborhood. (No plans, but who knows.)

macbookpro, you can pick up your prize starting tomorrow at the Customer Service counter of National Bookstore in Power Plant Mall, Makati.

jake, we’re having coffee on Saturday. I’ll email you details. miss_o, why don’t you join us so it’s less nerve-wracking for jake. To head off the usual awkwardness you could prepare ten questions each, I would answer them, and that would be a blog post.