Free Shirt

I won a free shirt in my Wednesday night tennis class. Woohoo! Well I didn't really win it, the guy who won it didn't want to be a walking advertisement, so since I was in 2nd place I got the shirt. I have no problems being a walking advertisement. It says www.SantaMonicaTennis.com on the front and the back.

Australian Open 2008

This year's Australian Open was particularly bad because I don't like either of the winners. On the women's side Maria Sharapova won. I'm really not a fan of her at all. She's hugely popular to the mainstream, but most tennis fans don't like her. She plays an ugly power game and screams like she's giving birth every time she hits the ball. She's 20 but seems to have the mind of a 10 year old girl who's scared that daddy won't love her if she doesn't win. Last year when she lost in the finals, her dad didn't even stay for the ceremony. This year when she defeated Justine Henin in the quarters her dad made a "slit the throat" sign. Ugh. On the men's side Novak Djokovic won. He gives incredibly cocky interviews and likes to take his shirt off and walk around shirtless when he wins a match. But I guess he's 20 so if he was in college he'd be a frat boy, walking around the frat house with his shirt off hoping the girls will look.

Oh well, since she won, here's a picture of Shrap from my cheapy Tennis Warehouse calendar. Happy January!

Tennis at UCLA

This is a few days late, but on New Years Day I finally got to play on the big stadium court at UCLA. The very same court that pros like Agassi, Chang, and Sampras have played on. I never got to play on it when I was going to UCLA. Since it was New Years Day and school was still out, me and Sat decided to go play there.



Here's Blake and Stepanek playing on the same court during the Countrywide Classic.



So awesome!

Tennis at Mar Vista

It was a ghost town at work today because everyone's still on vacation so I ditched at 3:15pm to play tennis with Sat, Shiz and Duc. Video highlights below...

Christmas Presents

What I got for Christmas...
From my sister and brother-in-law: i-Dog amp'd!


From myself: Adidas Barricade V tennis shoes!


Yeah, that's it. Not really a presents kind of guy.