Okay, this space below is reserved for any comments you may want to make on the women’s final, before or during or after the match. Beyond that, I want to take this opportunity, when there is so much traffic here, to ask you to observe a few basic guidelines.
Yeah, I know, you hate guidelines. I feel your pain. I mean, when I asked one of my teachers to sign my high school yearbook, she wrote that if I didn’t straighten up and stop being so rebellious I’d wind up in the penitentiary (and yes,this was a teacher who appeared to like me). True story, I still have the yearbook. She wasn’t far wrong, either; thank God for our revolving door legal system!
In any event, I’m asking you not to post comments that are vulgar, sexually explicit, or even gratuitously mean and nothing else (droll, sardonic and saucy is fine!). I’m not just asking this because I want to be a moral policeman. I'm asking because, tempting as it may be to break the rules and go offensive, such posts are nevereven remotely interesting or funny. They’re invariably boring and stupid; worse than, as Roger Federer might say, being stuck in an elevator listening to Celine Dion.
One other thing. I don't like to get in the middle of the debates (or even the food fights) some of TWs readers get into, but I thought that Matt Zemek's resolution of the Federer vs. Nadal, weak-draw/strong-draw controversy, was absolutely brilliant and irrefutable. So I'm pasting it in here.
*Want to compare draws, folks?
I dare anyone to disagree with this assessment:
1st round: Soderling tougher than Hartfield
2nd round: Kim tougher than Falla
3rd round: Massu tougher than Mathieu
4th round: Hewitt tougher than Berdych
QF: Ancic tougher than Vertidjoko
SF: Nalbie tougher than Jiffy Ljub*
I'm not coming down for TMF over DBR based on this, but a hat tip to Matt for taking this approach.