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In this video we talk to Tennis superstar Ana Ivanovic who tells us what she thinks about the attention tennis players are getting for their looks. We also hang out with Maria Sharapova, and around 2:00 into the video Maria shares her biggest thrill from being so famous.


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"Modelling was great fun.

"And it's great to do something different, especially when you spend so many hours of your life on a tennis court.

"But generally speaking, I'm a tennis player first. I know that one day I will be the greatest female tennis player in the world."

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In this video we talk to tennis star Shahar Peer, one of the big stories in this year's Wimbledon. We also hear from tennis superstars Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova on what it's like to compete against Peer. Around 1:00 into the video find out why you should think twice before messing around with Shahar.


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1) People, it's OK to be stupid. Stupidity is fun. It's carefree. It's completely devoid of the concerns many have for this world, including "U.S. Americans" and "some people" like "the Iraq, and other people like, the such as" so we will be able "to build up our future." Because when intelligent people all trying to fix the world and such as get stuck, who will they come to?

Well, not Ms. South Carolina. But I've heard arguments for keeping the confederate flag on the statehouse that were less well-reasoned than this. (Great find, PostGameHeroes.)

2) Good friends the Mottram brothers got a shot of DeAngelo Hall's message for Chad Johnson last night, a haircut that said "I Own U 85" in considerably blocky letters. Unfortunately for DeAngelo, Chad Johnson had five catches for 83 yards and a score, and Hall got particularly burned on a slant-and-go that saw Hall leave the TV frame entirely while Johnson streaked down the sideline. It was only preseason, but it's time to get a haircut, Hall. Immediately.

3) Mr. Met is a thug. I know most of us like to apply that term only to basketball players, or football players (whichever sport you're trying to compare unfavorably to the college game that day), but far too often does the blatant thug-ism in Major League Baseball go unchecked. The latest example? Mr. Met goes on a Kyle Farnsworth-esque tirade and gets himself hauled away by stadium security as furtively as possible. What next? Mr. Met shows up at a random wedding and gets his freak on the whole night? Oh, yeah ...

4) It's a few days old now, but this Airing of Grievances post on the Rucker Tournament over the weekend is a must-read. Rucker remains a basketball pilgrimage I've yet to take, and in the meantime, posts like this will have to suffice as my experience. Great stuff.

5) I'm all for an appreciation of the fairer sex, but methinks Darren Rovell -- he of the usually detached, reasoned business sensibilities -- is really developing a crush on Ana Ivanovic. Like, really developing a crush.

Ummm, what was that everyone was talking about Maria Sharapova? She's a great champion. She's a fantastic tennis player. She's the player who ------------ got absolutely smoked today in the semifinals of the French Open, that's who she is

Sharapova sputtered and choked her way to a 6-2, 6-1 butt-kicking at the hands of 19-year old Ana Ivanovic. Sharapova looked scare, just like she did in the Australian Open final in her 6-1, 6-2 drubbing by Serena Williams, just like she did against Serena in Key Biscayne.

Sharapova will assuredly never win a French Open and will be hard-pressed to win another major. With a bevy of young players like Ivanovic who are unafraid of the over-hyped one and other players who plain don't like her - who happen to be champions, like Justines Henin and Williams - Sharapova will have to perform a personality makeover by the time she's 23 or perish under a mountain of more talented athletes who are better players than she.

The saving grace for Maria is that now she get to play on grass, her favorite surface. She loves Wimbledon, the site of her first Grand Slam tournament win as the grass is fast and her shots move through the court at a rate they never can on clay or even hard courts.

However, today the world saw that the more shots Sharapova has to hit, the worse off she is. Her lack of athleticism is exposed and her horrid forehand becomes the liability it is. And as the match winds on, as it did against Ivanovic, Sharapova even loses her nerve on her serve.

Invanovic will face Justine Henin in the French Open finals.