Killed for wearing shots
It's hard to imagine what extenuating circumstances there could have been to make this anything but shameful: an Iraqi tennis coach and his male players were shot, supposedly for wearing shots. Another story here.
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It's hard to imagine what extenuating circumstances there could have been to make this anything but shameful: an Iraqi tennis coach and his male players were shot, supposedly for wearing shots. Another story here.
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This week on Eurosport, Chris Bradnam has been the commentator for two of Dinara Safina's matches.
Safina vs Clijsters
CB: I can't see that she has any weapons to hurt the top players.
Safina went on to win that match in straight sets, and then hammer perennial top-tenner Elena Dementieva 6-1,6-1 in the next round.
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Safina vs Kuznetsova (after many comments from CB about what a breakthrough winning this match would be for Safina):
Nigel Sears (sharing the booth): Actually, she has won a Tier II title before, in Paris.
CB: She has?
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Here you go, Chris: Safina's WTA record
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Natasha Zvereva didn't have, I thought, a particularly unpronounceable name. And yet people managed to mangle it in the most astonishing ways. Even after she'd played at Wimbledon for ten years, Dickie Davies was still calling her "Zevereva". Quite a few people called her Zevreva. And so on.
So: the Zvereva Award to the player with the name the most commentators manage to mangle. Matevzic was probably last year's winner (or woulc have been): for some reason Eurosport kept calling her Mateyevich.
This year,even so early, it's clearly going to Anna Chakvetadze, whose name had three pronunciations yesterday on Eurosport alone. I've mercifully blanked all but Shock-ve-dot-see.
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