Author Archives: Jesse Pentecost
Luck of the Draw: US Open 2012
It is amidst considerable fanfare and with a sense of ungovernable arousal that I announce the release of the newly updated and proudly unabridged second edition of Bracketology, the Reading of Draws , and Why Men Have to Sleep Around. … Continue reading
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A Kind Of Partnership
Cincinnati Masters, Final (1) Federer d. (2) Djokovic, 6/0 7/6 Prior to today’s Cincinnati Masters final, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic had played 82 sets in 27 matches, but in none of those sets had either man failed to win … Continue reading
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Words To Live By
Cincinnati Masters, Quarterfinal (1) Federer d. (10) Fish, 6/3 7/6 Roger Federer tonight defeated Mardy Fish in two highly entertaining sets of tennis at the Lindner Family Tennis Center, lest you retain any vestigial doubt as to the sport at … Continue reading
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Not Unlike Gazpacho
Cincinnati Masters, Days One to Four The big news this week at the Mason (Ohio) Masters was that Brian Baker won his first match on North American hardcourts, from only his fifth attempt. He defeated Philipp Kohlschreiber. According to some … Continue reading
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Warm, Generous, Beset and Dangerous
Toronto Masters 1000, Final (1) Djokovic d. (14) Gasquet, 6/3 6/2 Novak Djokovic tonight defeated Richard Gasquet in the final of the Toronto Masters 1000. He did so in two very straight sets, and barely tarried beyond an hour, thereby … Continue reading
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Three Minute Songs About Girls
Toronto, Semifinal (14) Gasquet d. (8) Isner, 7/6 6/3 By defeating John Isner in straight sets in today’s Toronto semifinal, Richard Gasquet has reached his first Masters 1000 final in six years. As ever, a long gap affords us a … Continue reading
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Strange Things Happen
Toronto Masters, Day Five As the Olympic Games pressed indefatigably onward – artistic gymnasts, it turns out, are both terrifying and apparently unstoppable – the prevailing sentiment directed towards this year’s edition of the Canadian Masters was one of profound … Continue reading
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Twenty-Eight Days Later
Olympic Games, Gold Medal Match (3) Murray d. (1) Federer, 6/2 6/1 6/4 As Andy Murray’s fifth and final ace punched vigorously into Centre Court’s temporarily hideous back hoarding, and the fact that he’d now won the Olympic gold medal … Continue reading
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The Stories We Tell
Olympic Games, Day Seven (1) Federer d. del Potro, 3/6 7/6 19/17 My long Friday night was already repurposing itself into a never-ending Saturday morning when Roger Federer commenced the rambling sequence of holds that would ensure his ultimate victory … Continue reading
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Doing the Wrong Thing Badly
A Ramble on the Badminton By now the story is a long day old that eight female badminton players, some of them among the foremost badminton players on the planet, have been disqualified from the London Olympics for not bothering … Continue reading
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