Old Man Style

I'm a big tennis fan, but the only reason I've ever really chosen to cheer for the Williams Sisters comes from the fact that I'm such a Homer. An American Homer. You gotta love the way these girls came on the scene and looked so dominate. They were so good, and then they started getting injury after injury after injury. There injuries are the ones I am proud of people for having. Too much playing and trying too hard. Yesterday I found myself, along with about 13,000 fans at Centre Court in Wimbledon, England, cheering on the younger of the most bootylicious pair of Tennis sisters to ever grace the sport.

Why?

All of the sudden it looked like she was the underdog. Following the 1st set which Serena won, she and Daniela Handtuchova both got a break and fought to a 5-5 tie in the 2nd set. During Handtuchova's serve Serena begins hitting her calf after it tightened up with a cramp. And it's not one of those fake injuries that you see Soccer and Basketball players go down with. This is Calf seizing up and looking like it's gonna pop right off her freaking leg. She goes down and takes a medical time out to get it taken care of. She has to get back up after the time out is over and then loses that game to go down 6-5 and has her serve to take it to a tiebreaker.

Playing like this through the next game not even being able to serve with her normal orgasmic quality, she serves 98 and 108 mph for 2 of her serves only using an arm serve. She is walking around the court playing Old Man tennis like the 80 year old men down at your local tennis court that will whoop you like you're playing with a wooden racquet. So her old man play gets her to 40-30 while down 5-6 for the second set and she serves 110 mph ace!

Props to Serena. They go to the tiebreaker and Handtuchova takes it to her like she should. No mercy and they get to 2-4 Handtuchova in the tiebreaker and then the rain comes. The rain starts pouring down and the crowd actually cheered. For an American! That my friends is ridiculous. So after the rain delay Handtuchova wins the tie breaker, but Serena goes on to win the match in thrilling fashion complete with begging the chair to let her take a bathroom break which he denies her during Handtuchova's serve. Old Man Tennis at it's best.

In another case of Old Man sporting I take you to Roger Clemens and his 350th win. Soon to turn Ancient as he will become 45 next month Roger took it to the Minnesota Twins and held them to two hits. Old Man Pitching from the Rocket has led him to forcing many more groundballs and he finally had the chance to relax on the mound after the Yankeee bats came alive in the 6th and put up some run support. You have to love that gut. I think it's actually helping him pitch now. But you can't deny that old bastard still has some guns! I have my ticket to the gun show... Looks like the twins just got theirs.