I have been watching Wimbledon ever since I can remember... I cheered on Martina, Andre, Stefi, Pete, Venus, Serena and Roger... and I simply cannot get enough of Joe McEnroe's commentary (yep, I even used to watch his talk show... it lasted, what, like a week? But I watched it!).
Instead of packing and cleaning my apartment like a responsible person, I sat in front of the television for the whole of the day, unable to pull myself away from what will go down as probably the greatest Men's Finals EVER. Two rain delays, two tie breaker sets (3 and 4) and then that final set... 6-6, 7-7, then finally 7-9 (Nadal). In all my 24 1/2 years, I have never seen tennis like that.
Though I was rooting for Federer, there is no denying that Nadal brought his A-game to Centre Court. He played well, and was helped by Federer's inability to hit stuff over the net when he was all up in the net's grill. Both men played well. Nadal just came out victorious this time.
After the game ended, I felt jazzed to play tennis or at least watch more tennis. But then it dawned on me... there are really no good tennis movies. There is that ill-fated Paul Bettany/Kirsten Dunst fiasco, "Wimbledon", but that movie sucks. A lot. I saw it when it first came out on video because I like Bettany and tennis, but WOW, that was really bad. I watched it again sometime last year because I had become a huge James McAvoy fan, and he plays Bettany's little brother in the movie... so I suffered through it for my second (and ultimately FINAL) time.
Disney needs to get the ball rolling on a "Based on a true story" tennis film. They've made some great other sports movies (Miracle, Remember the Titans, The Rookie, etc...). Why not tennis?
Maybe I'll just have to write one myself :)
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