Federer vs Sampras!
Roger Federer will play Pete Sampras in three exhibition matches in three Asian cities in November! Kuala Lumpur, Macao, and a third city yet to be announced.
What could the other Asian city be? I can guess what you’re thinking, and the thought that comes after that, and we’re not going there because we’re going to end up maligning this country again, and this collective self-loathing has to end.
Meanwhile it’s just occurred to me that tennis players are the proof of Ted’s theory (He didn’t actually formulate it, but he popularized it) that shining a strong light on the backs of one’s knees cures jetlag. Tennis players are constantly flying and crossing time zones, but they seem unaffected by jetlag, or else they recover faster. It’s the shorts/tennis dresses! They play under the sun, so the light hits the backs of their knees, vaporizing jetlag! Therefore if Marat Safin wore shorter shorts…
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
May 30th, 2007 at 02:07
very interesting..
i grew up watching sampras win those 13 grand slams. he has a very good all-around game and ferocious service. same goes for federer.this is the battle of the alpha males from two different decades of tennis!
i’d go for the fed still!!
May 30th, 2007 at 11:06
I dont know about what the others were thinking but I thought, “I hope the promoters make them use the old, Borg-era style wooden tennis rackets. That’ll make for a more even match-up.”
May 30th, 2007 at 14:58
i took pains in downloading Federer vs. Sampras Wimbledon 2001 (their only ATP match up), and if that’s any indication, this will be an interesting exhibition (though Sampras had been retired for a while and The Fed Express has gone a long way since then). But if I may so, The Fed looks good in a ponytail.