What tennis player would you most want to invite to your house?
Steve
today),
is currently retired, or still plays professionally, what tennis
player would you most want to invite to a family BBQ, if you had to
pick one and what would you most want to get up to with them and/or or
say to them.
Raja, The Great
Steffi Graf or Maria Sharapova - so that I can bone them.
pltr...@xhost.org
wrote:
Thanks for an interesting post -- most rare these days.
I would think that most tennis pros of the open era would be pretty
one-dimensional, dull company.
My choices would be:
1. Arthur Ashe, the obvious exception to my statement above.
2. Rene Lacoste, a brilliant strategist, multi-faceted inventor and
business man.
3. Chris Evert
4. Mansour Bahrami
5. Bud Collins
Others: Gordon Forbes, Fred Stolle, Tony Trabert, Don Budge, John
Newcombe, Art Larsen.
-- Larry
Manco
Wouldn't want Nadal - what those shit-stinking fingers of his. Most
likely Federer due immaculate manners and interesting conversation.
We'd talk all about Lindt and coffee.
Manco
>
> Wouldn't want Nadal - what those shit-stinking fingers of his. Most
> likely Federer due immaculate manners and interesting conversation.
> We'd talk all about Lindt and coffee.
and then we'd make sweet passionate love...
reilloc
It'd be nice to have my dad over. He taught me tennis. I'd thank him and
ask him why he had to be so damn hard on my brother, why he never even
tried to show my sister how to play.
Having Ian Tiriac and Ille Nastase together again at the same table
might be a hell of a night. Billie Jean King and Bobbie Riggs couldn't
be a bad time. Bill Tilden, now there'd be somebody with some insight
especially if there was a Bill Tilden who'd done what he'd done and saw
everything that's happened up to the present time.
Bud Collins. I've never liked the blustering buffoon and his cutesy
nicknames but he'd put on a hell of a show.
LNC
TT
Horrible reading. Namesdropping without any kind of understanding
whatsoever about history of tennis. From a teen, doh.
Whisper
I've already had a beer with Laver/Newk/Roche etc, so I'd go McEnroe,
Navrailova & Henin.
ocean
Ivanovic.
pltr...@xhost.org
>Having Ian Tiriac and Ille Nastase together again at the same table
>might be a hell of a night.
Tiriac and Stan Smith would be far more entertaining. 8;)
Except that I'd never allow Tiriac in my home, the pig.
-- Larry
MBDunc
I am curious to know whether Newk was "clueless fuckwit" (as you
stated him many times 2001-2005) before you had beer with him or
after?
.mikko
Whisper
> On 6 maalis, 08:47, Whisper<beaver...@ozemail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/03/2011 2:39 PM, Steve wrote:
>>
>>> Irrespective whether the player is deceased (pretend they were alive
>>> today),
>>> is currently retired, or still plays professionally, what tennis
>>> player would you most want to invite to a family BBQ, if you had to
>>> pick one and what would you most want to get up to with them and/or or
>>> say to them.
>>
>> I've already had a beer with Laver/Newk/Roche etc, so I'd go McEnroe,
>
> I am curious to know whether Newk was "clueless fuckwit" (as you
> stated him many times 2001-2005) before you had beer with him or
> after?
>
> .mikko
Newk likes to be controversial, much like McEnroe. He'll often say
anything to fire people up, like when I asked him about Sampras v Agassi.
topspin
Ashe would be my #1 too, closely followed by Okker (now an art dealer,
caused me more grief than anyone else) and Goolagong ( a hell of a
life journey, and a crush!).
number_six
Interesting choices; I'll echo a couple and add a few.
Ashe, Bahrami, Drobny, von Cramm, Graf, Goolagong, Mandlikova.
dixon
Raja, You can talk like that if you want but, leave Steffi out of this.
Raja, The Great
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> - Show quoted text -
Number Six is not me.
drew
I would like to talk to Roger Federer (big surprise) because I'd like
to know what he's like when he's
at ease and without a microphone in his face....and of course because
of his great accomplishments and
young family.
And Novak Djokovic. He seems like an intelligent and funny guy.
Would be a great conversation and
good party.
The women? Nooo, this is supposed to be a family BBQ.
drew
Make sure you specify this on the invitation. Would you offer them a
drink first
or would you go straight to the rotisserie?
felangey
Not even cute wholesome little Ana? ;)
drew
> >The women? Nooo, this is supposed to be a family BBQ<
>
> Not even cute wholesome little Ana? ;)
I'd lose concentration on the grill. Don't want to overcook my meat.
Raja, The Great
The more drunk the better ;-)
Sakari Lund
Are you sure your soon-to-be wife would like that?
drew
She'd be in the tool shed with Stepanek and Safin.
Raja, The Great
How about your mom?
Giovanna
Roddick, Wawrinka, Sampras, Agassi, Murray, Serena, Guga
Superdave
>Roger and his family~~
>
>Roddick, Wawrinka, Sampras, Agassi, Murray, Serena, Guga
you really have to lose this thing for Serena. she is simply f-ing gross.
Katya
Why call Tiriac a pig ?
Nasty would be a treat cuz he does not hold back and maybe you'd get some dirt on the frat days
Iceberg
> Roger and his family~~
>
> Roddick, Wawrinka, Sampras, Agassi, Murray, Serena, Guga
this is a good list :) not sure I'd invite Andre these days cos of his
issues with Sampras, but if Steffi came along she'd keep him in line
hopefully.
Viper
> On Mar 5, 9:39 pm, Steve<ser...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Irrespective whether the player is deceased (pretend they were alive
>> today),
>> is currently retired, or still plays professionally, what tennis
>> player would you most want to invite to a family BBQ, if you had to
>> pick one and what would you most want to get up to with them and/or or
>> say to them.
>
> Steffi Graf or Maria Sharapova - so that I can bone them.
Scruffs, Anna Ivanovic by the length of the straight
Viper
Iceberg
Wozniacki + Sampras, Roddick, McEnroe, Frew MacMillan, Navratilova,
Henin, Barry Cowan, James Blake, Steffi, Nadal, Fed (would have lots
to ask him hehe).
Shakes
> Irrespective whether the player is deceased (pretend they were alive
> today),
> is currently retired, or still plays professionally, what tennis
> player would you most want to invite to a family BBQ, if you had to
> pick one and what would you most want to get up to with them and/or or
> say to them.
Edberg, Sampras, and Federer. I would ask them about their games,
strategies, racquets, training methods etc.
Women - Mandilkova, Goolagong, and Graf.
pltr...@xhost.org
wrote:
>Why call Tiriac a pig ?
Davis Cup, 1972, Bucharest, Smith vs. Tiriac. Possibly the second most
politically charged tennis engagement ever, trailing only Budge-Von
Cramm.
Anyone who saw that match could never think of Tiriac as anything more
evolved than pond scum.
-- Larry
Katya
Let me give you the view from the other side of the Curtain since I assume you've seen the matches on one of the American networks.
Can't remember the specifics of the match, maybe there were antics and dirty tricks on court, but imagine the personal pressure on Tiriac: loosing meant letting down the country (same as Djoko in the last final) but with potential personal consquences that would involve his extended family: not prison and crazy stuff like in N Korea's soccer, but a social status loss equivalent to going from upper-middle to blue collar.
The local TV commentary was not politically colored, in fact not at all. At the time Romania was viewed as one of the more progressive socialist countries (did not participate in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Nixon met with both teams in the White House in '69 for the DC Challenge round etc.)
It was national heartbreak to loose the Cup at home, but not because they lost to the Americans - who were very respected for their work ethic and sang froid in tense moments. Stan Smith was public enemy number one, but not in the vein of Rocky vs Drago.
Nasty and Tiriac got a book out in '75 (or so) called: 'It would have been too beautiful ...' [...to win the DC, my note] that tells the story of their prime years and where Davis Cup is central even though Nasty won couple of slams and they won RG together. The book is shadow written and very emotional, great book, no Iron Curtain politics. Don't think it's ever been translated (maybe in Eastern Europe, but I doubt). Had the boook, lost it and maybe I have romanticized memories of times passed.
It goes to tell that massive propaganda worked in the USA as well and free press needs a discerning spirit to be useful.
As for Tiriac, if he was guilty then, he must be given some slack. He is a self-made billionaire (800+ on Forbes) but I see him at all the slams, sitting in the first row behind the baseline, starting with the QF. And it's for hours and hours, not just posing and schmoozing - his tennis financial interests are less than 5%.
This guy loves tennis, knows it owes the sport his beginnings (even though he switched to tennis as main sport after he played hockey at the Olympics, imagine that) and likes to be around the game.
For me, his passion absolves him fully.
I'll PM you a short article on I.T.