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Anyone watching this at the moment. Cash up against McEnroe and some good fun.

Henry Laconte is on the other court and pissing of McEnroe while he serves. No surprise that the umpire has copped it on numerous occasions so far.

Bernard Tomic won early today against I think Robby Ginepri.
 
One of the commentators was saying that Henri Leconte could probably still go on the doubles circuit. Not too sure about that, but gee he still looks sharp (if not a bit pudgy).

Bahrami is always good for a laugh, too, and also very sharp for a 53-year old.
 
SBI said:
One of the commentators was saying that Henri Leconte could probably still go on the doubles circuit. Not too sure about that, but gee he still looks sharp (if not a bit pudgy).

Bahrami is always good for a laugh, too, and also very sharp for a 53-year old.
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That was the first I'd seen of Bahrami and he was great. :D

I heard that he was a gun player but didn't make it far because he tried to play too many trick shots to entertain the crowd.

I like his fake smash/backhand shot. He's great at the betweeen the legs shot as well.

Yeah, Laconte looked awesome as well. He was serving the ball pretty quickly. Heard he got up to about 190km/h.
 

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spud_jjj said:
Man I love Bahrami.

First time I'd seen him live last night. (Tomic took it a bit seriously)

The Aus Open/Channel 7, would be stupid not to televise some sort of match involving him and Leconte.
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Did you see when he played Stepanek? He looked pissed off when Stepanek fired 5 balls at him despite having 5 match points. They do this old bloke stuff at the Aus Open don't they? Bahrami and Laconte better play. if they do I have to go see it.

I hate watching the McEnroe games. He takes it way too seriously. It's only goot when he's getting smashed and has a go at that umpire.
 
Tomic would be under instructions from his puppet master father to not mess around. I know we're trying to promote the kid but I dont think hes the right person to have at a tournament like this.

Its a good night out actually, mot of the players are being great showmen for the crowd. Watched the first 2 nights on TV but ill be heading down tonight, should be good.
 
I finally gave it a go last night, didn't attend, just on TV.

What great fun! :D Bahrami what a legend, he was awesome, not only hilarious but still very good. He can get some serious speed on that serve. :eek:

Bit of a difficult position for Tomic to be in, he's trying to join in on the fun and he did his best to play up for the crowd but he's got to be thinking am I the right guy for this? I didn't see his singles but caught the result, great effort!
 
It would be tough on the young kid. He's only 17 gotta give him a break. By the way he just beat Simon in a third set super tie break. Definitely has the weapons but needs to improve his serving and court coverage but he looks pretty good for a 17 yr old.
 
hey shorty said:
Tomic would be under instructions from his puppet master father to not mess around. I know we're trying to promote the kid but I dont think hes the right person to have at a tournament like this.
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Seems like you're right. Commentators just said that because Tomic dropped his intensity he had to go and do 'double skips' (Whatever that is) out the back before this game. If that's the case then there is no way he should be doing this exhibition event. It's not to be taken seriously.
 
Sean. said:
Seems like you're right. Commentators just said that because Tomic dropped his intensity he had to go and do 'double skips' (Whatever that is) out the back before this game. If that's the case then there is no way he should be doing this exhibition event. It's not to be taken seriously.
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Double skips are just a form of warm up every player does before a match...
 

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