{"id":1380,"date":"2008-01-24T13:52:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2008\/01\/24\/da-tsonga-dude\/"},"modified":"2014-01-03T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:45:13","slug":"da-tsonga-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Da Tsonga dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"tsonga.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/tsonga.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tsonga.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/tsonga.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/a>Wow,\u00a0the Jo-Wilfred Tsonga dude played an amazing match, dumped Nadal to reach the final in straight sets: 6:2, 6:3, 6:2.\u00a0 Before this Aussie Open, I&#8217;ve never heard of him.\u00a0 At the first glance, he reminded me of boxer Ali.\u00a0 Pumpkin is watching a lot, first time I&#8217;ve seen her so into watch tennis, omg, :).\u00a0 Tsonga plays bit unconventional, so is\u00a0his physique, he&#8217;s h-u-g-e, teddy-bear without a care in the world!\u00a0 The racket looks like a serving spoon in his hand, :).\u00a0 He jumps around like a\u00a0toddler!\u00a0 \u00a0How about \u5730\u5305\u5929 Djokovic Joker beat out Federer for a change?\u00a0 Two pretty girls are heading to the final, Ana Ivanovic vs Maria Sharapova &#8211; need to buy earplugs!!\u00a0 The Williams&#8217; sisters are out, \ud83d\ude41 ..<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ali-f1.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ali-f1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" alt=\"ali-f1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ali-f1.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>The other day, the commentators were talking about challenge calls during Federer vs Blake match.\u00a0 They mentioned that Federe is opposing the instant challenge call ..\u00a0but he&#8217;s using a lot during the match.\u00a0 And kind of late to invoke the challenge.\u00a0 Then <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/richard_deitsch\/01\/15\/mary.carillo.unlv.documentary\/\">Mary Carillo<\/a>\u00a0(her <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/writers\/richard_deitsch\/01\/15\/mary.carillo.unlv.documentary\/\">leaving ESPN in 2011<\/a>)\u00a0said, &#8220;Sharapova is that way too, late to request\u00a0the challenge call .. but they&#8217;re not\u00a0cheating, like looking up to their box to decide ..&#8221;\u00a0 Hello, is Mary gone mad or forgetful?\u00a0 Maria Sharapova looks to her father and coach all the time, they would give her signals\u00a0.. .. it&#8217;s the controversy at the US Open.\u00a0 Short memory???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow,\u00a0the Jo-Wilfred Tsonga dude played an amazing match, dumped Nadal to reach the final in straight sets: 6:2, 6:3, 6:2.\u00a0 Before this Aussie Open, I&#8217;ve never heard of him.\u00a0 At the first glance, he reminded me of boxer Ali.\u00a0 Pumpkin is watching a lot, first time I&#8217;ve seen her so into watch tennis, omg, :).\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saga","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}