<p>Lucky you, mattmom, even up there in the stratosphere! Blake is really on a roll, and I find him hugely appealing, too.</p>
<p>mattmom you got SUCH a beautiful day to go to the OPEN. No humidity, good tennis. Lucky you. </p>
<p>I’m an Agassi fan too. He is just plain inspiring. Blake too.</p>
<p>I watched the Blake match at the gym while running on a treadmill.</p>
<p>My heart rate was up about 175 from the tennis alone :)</p>
<p>That sounds dangerous, SB…at the end of the match you might have let go while double fist-pumping and gotten thrown off the belt. :)</p>
<p>Well I was definitely the only one in the gym going “Whooo!” “Yesss!” – people across the room must have thought I like working out a lot more than I actually do! ;)</p>
<p>I lost interest when my boy ARod was eliminated. If Agassi gets eliminated, I could care less.</p>
<p>Now comes the tough one. Do I root for Blake or Agassi in the quarters? What a bummer. I’m so happy for Blake, but how can I root against a fellow senior citizen who’s trying so hard to stay in the game? I’ll be watching this one through my fingers (not while on a treadmill, though.)</p>
<p>What does anyone think of Sonia Mirza? I think she played pretty well, but her serve wasn’t good.</p>
<p>Blake! Blake!</p>
<p>OK, I think you’ve almost convinced me. But watching Andre drill those four consecutive serves on the center line in the last set was almost a religious experience. There had to be some kind of intelligent design involved.</p>
<p>He is right up there when it comes to tennis intellegence–between him and Steffi…
But Driver, I must say that, considering you’re arch-conservative posture on most political issues on CC, I was shocked–shocked!–at your defense of the use of the word “gender” to mean “sex” the other day. A flaming liberal at heart?</p>
<p>Now Idler,
They’d have to at least quadruple the size of the Gender Studies departments if they changed the name to “Sex Studies,” and that wouldn’t suit the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy at all.</p>
<p>First game: Agassi</p>
<p>Post who wins</p>
<p>First break: Blake. Try saying that three times, fast.</p>
<p>ahhhhhh! exciting match! very shiny heads.</p>
<p>After four sets, message to all middle-aged people…and you young ones too: KEEP WORKING OUT. It works.</p>
<p>What a great match. Gotta love those old bald guys. They come through in the end.</p>
<p>According to the Boston Globe, Agassi won: “3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), in a quarterfinal match that seemed over an hour in, and ended 2 hours 51 minutes after it began, at 1:10 a.m.” I wish both of them could have won, but let’s hear it for the “old farts”!</p>
<p>Yeah I am so glad Agassi won, he has been my favorite tennis player since Johnny Mac and Boris Becker retired.</p>