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[Babblelot]

  The Sensational Six   

Top 6 Players of ALL-TIMES Tribute

#1  John McEnroe  
Would there be a Babblelot if there was no Johnny Mac???
This is the match that got it all started.



#2 Pat Rafter 
Style and Athleticism



#3 Marat Safin 
Power and Pain
Simply The Greatest Match Ever
2005 Australian Open Semifinal
Safin def. Federer 5-7, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (8-6), 9-7



#4 Jim Courier 
The Rock



#5 Justine Henin 
La Dame Savoir Faire
Simply The Greatest Women's Match Ever
2003 US Open Semifinal
Henin def. Capriati 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (4)



#6 Gaston Gaudio 
Pleasure and Pain

[tonaiden]

Cool!!!!!

[Babblelot]

Hey ton! Good to see you again. I made all of those 

Btw, there's a new Gaucho on the board. His name is sosa09.



Here's his team, River Plate

http://www.tennis4you.com/forum/index.php?topic=15306.0

[tonaiden]

Hey ton! Good to see you again. I made all of those 

Btw, there's a new Gaucho on the board. His name is sosa09.



Here's his team, River Plate

http://www.tennis4you.com/forum/index.php?topic=15306.0

I support that team too, but sadly they´re playing very bad lately.

About Gaudio, nobody (even himself I believe) knows what he´s going to do. He said he was going to try to play the Buenos Aires 250, or a tour playing all around the country (strangest thing I´ve ever heard). I´ll translate a little interview where he says some things.

[Babblelot]

About Gaudio, nobody (even himself I believe) knows what he´s going to do. He said he was going to try to play the Buenos Aires 250, or a tour playing all around the country (strangest thing I´ve ever heard). I´ll translate a little interview where he says some things.

Off court, that would pretty much cover the pleasure and the pain of being an El Gato fan.

Thanks for the updates, ton

[Babblelot]

Incredible point, incredible, moment, from an incredible match.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxwLJruYlsU&feature=related[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxwLJruYlsU&feature=related

[Babblelot]

All of his RG videos are gone, but these new ones are popping up. Stupid YouTube.   

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_JAdLrgrc[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_JAdLrgrc

[Babblelot]

Rome Masters
Gasquet follows up his 4-6, 7-6(2), 7-6(4) victory over Federer on Thursday with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 quarterfinal win over Berdych!


Backhand winners up the line all the damn day long

[Babblelot]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hbLIMkav4[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hbLIMkav4

[Babblelot]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsakm85EN_c[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsakm85EN_c

[tonaiden]

what a great talent

[Babblelot]

what a great talent

Hey, mi amigo! Good to see you. How is college going? Are you studying psychology or did you opt for something else?

[tonaiden]

what a great talent

Hey, mi amigo! Good to see you. How is college going? Are you studying psychology or did you opt for something else?

cool, yeah, im still with psychology, getting more interesting as you are gettin into it.

[smashtenis]

Hi Guys! I'm new here! Do someone have a new Gaudio match? Maybe with Gasquet or Gonzalez. I already have Gaudio vs Hewitt (RG 2004 and 2007), Gaudio vs Nalbandian (RG 2004), Gaudio vs Coria (RG 2004) and Gaudio vs Agassi (Montreal 2005). I also know where to download Gaudio vs Nadal Stuttgart 2005 and vs Federer TMC 2004. So, some different match? THANK YOU!!! 

[Babblelot]

I was just wondering who put Federer out of the 2002 US Open, Pete's last event.

A: Max Mirnyi   


Then I saw the name G. Gaudio!

#21 seed in 2002. Wow!

1R Gaudio def. Todd Martin 6-2, 6-3, 0-6, 7-5   WOW!!!! 

2R Gaudio def. Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3  Holy smokes!

He went out to Jan-Michael Gambill in 3R, but he picked off a couple of fast court giants along the way.

[tonaiden]

Gaudio announced he wont continue playing...

A guy less in the book...

[tonaiden]

check this out

Richard Gasquet　Les petits As 1999

[Babblelot]

Never saw that before! Wow!

[Babblelot]

Safin Elected To Russian Federal Parliament

ormer World Number One tennis player and star of the ATP Champions Tour, Marat Safin, has been voted into the Russian Federal Parliament, the Duma.

Two-time Grand Slam winner Safin, a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, has been elected into the Duma’s lower house as a representative for the Nyzhny Novgorod region, approximately 500k from Moscow.

Ahead of the election results, Safin explained to the ATP Champions Tour how he reached the decision to pursue his political ambitions.

“My life has been changing for the last two years,” he said. “All of a sudden I found myself in a situation where I had to make really serious decisions. It started with one small thing and it grew up to something big. I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me. I never did this, I never liked it. I had a few months of thinking ‘should I do this or should I not’ but now I am pretty sure of what I’m doing and I want to do it.”

The 31 year-old also explained his new political career shares some similarities with his former life as a professional tennis player.

“I’m in completely new shoes,” he said. "This is a completely new life, a new way of thinking, new way of doing things that’s nothing to do with tennis or sports at all. But the two things definitely have one thing in common and that is that you need to have a character. You have to be strong and you have to know where you’re going, what you want to do, and you have to be able to make sacrifices.”

“I will be working for the next five years day after day, sitting in an office, wearing a suit. I will have good days, bad days and I will have to fight once again like I’ve been fighting on the court. It will be complicated.”

One of the most prominent supporters of Safin’s political career has been the man who he beat to win his first Grand Slam at the US Open in 2000, Pete Sampras.

“In 20 years Marat will be the President of Russia!” joked Sampras, before adding seriously:

“Trust me, Marat is going to go a long way. He is very intelligent and articulate and he’s good with people, and that’s half the battle with being a politician.”

Safin is not the first Russian sports star to launch a second career in politics. The 2005 Australian Open Champion is joining an exclusive club which includes the likes of gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, figure skater Anton Sikharulidze and heavyweight boxer Nikolay Valuev, all of whom have run for office.

http://www.atpchampionstour.com/news204.html

Nikita Khrushchev shoe banging incident

[Babblelot]

#1

Federer vs Safin AO 2005 SF (The video's owner prevents external embedding)

The 11 Best Australian Open Matches from the Last 11 Years

In the past two decades, the Australian Open has transformed from a forgotten, forlorn afterthought into a vibrant showcase... blah blah

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/567772-the-11-best-australian-open-matches-from-the-last-11-years