Thai songs and tennis matches

I'm sure I'm the only person interested in this but I'll write about it anyway. I'm having an excellent time listening to my two new Thongchai McIntyre double CDs. Yes! 77 of his wonderful songs!!

Just watched part of the exciting Agassi-Blake match. Turned on the TV at the 3rd set, ate my lunch, read bits of the papers and cleared half a wardrobe of clothes, and they were still at it!! I believe the match ended at 1-something am New York time. Poor Blake, to have nearly won, then to have had to go to 5 sets, and then to lose. I wonder if that's what happened to Coria too. Didn't watch his match. What a pity. I think Coria is a great player but he just can't do it under pressure.

Will probably miss Maria Sharapova-Kim Clijsters. That should be quite a match. For Kim's sake, I hope she wins. She has tried so hard all these years. Unfortunately, she also has that not-performing-at-the-crucial-moment streak.

This is what Venus Williams said about Kim after Kim defeated her in their quarter final, 'I was playing decent and she started playing really bad and it totally threw me off... She started hitting these really weird shots and short balls... It threw my game off. Next thing I knew, i was playing as bad as she was.'

Talk about blaming everyone else but yourself, and not giving your opponent ANY credit. What is wrong with that woman??

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