My Love for Kooyong or Bless See-through White Shorts

Today I went to see the tournament that my hubby decided to not contest - the Kooyong AAMI Classic. It's a men's invitational round-robin competition where the guys are able to play at least 3 matches on the same surface the Aus Open is played on, thus lending the guys precious time to acclimatise and practice against some heavy competition. Previous winners include Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, and Andy Roddick. Kooyong is not actually worth any ATP points and contributes nothing to rankings and is thus an *exhibition* tournament. However, because it is an invitational and the benefits it offers, you're guaranteed some pretty good tennis.

Except not from Marat because he pulled out this year. He played last year though - when I happened to be in Sydney. *huff*.

But suboo and I were well rewarded by the guys who did turn up! We were seated four rows from the front, conveniently behind the coaching boxes so we had a lot of face-on action of big frustrated men yelling out stuff to their supporters. It was great. We also discovered the previously unrecognised hotness of Stanislas Wawrinka. The pics I've managed to find of him online don't show his *in motion* hotness so take my word for it.

Suboo enjoys her time in the stands.

This image of Stan (L) makes him totally look like Prince SIR Niko of Kranjcar.
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His white shorts were totally see-through and he'd bend over in front of us and pick out his wedgie. It was like he was deliberately making us look at his shelf-like butt.

His opponent, the sweet and smiley Fernando Gonzalez of Chile. Except not in this pic because he's just lost in 3 sets. He'd be hotter but his long hair makes him look kinda greasy.

Just making sure you know the name of a new tennis hottie.

The next match was Marcos Baghdatis who has lopped off his hair and presented the hairy grapefruit look. His opponent was the super-tall Croat Marin Cilic.

This is not a scale comparison...but it could almost be.

After this match was finished, Marcos played 6 serves against a 3AW (radio) competition winner who tried to win by playing with this GIANT racquet.

This was followed by Carlos Moya vs. Ivan Ljubicic.

Carlos looking as smoking as ever from behind. I just wish he didn't have long hair.

The last match of the day was between Mardy Fish and eternal hottie Tommy Haas. This wasn't actually part of the tournament - they must have just been handing around or something, but IT WAS THE BEST MATCH OF THE DAY. The wind which got all swirling but the players took it to another level. There were some awesome rallies and hit-making as a result of the unpredictability of the way the ball was going to fall. Awesome.

Yes, we got very close and personal to Tommy Haas. He was so hot, the older women sitting next to us said "Oh, he's got a wonderful smile!" when he looked in our direction...and smiled :D. Suboo TALKED to him :D

But then some real action happened in this match that was not tennis. There was a drunk corporate guest who started yelling out rude comments to Mardy and Tommy while they were playing. Combined with the general silence of a tennis crowd and the fact that Kooyong is an old-school stadium and sound travels and we could all hear him. Things came to a head with this exchange:
Drunk Guy: "You smell like p***y!"
Mardy Fish (stops playing): "How can you speak like that with women around?"
DG: "What? It's not bothering them. I have a right to say what I want."
MF: "I think you should leave."
DG: "What? I've paid my money and have a right to stay here."
Security guard: "Okay, you've been warned..." and escorts him and companion out.

So yes, here's to Mardy Fish.

Not a hottie, but a superhero nonetheless
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So yes, unless you're a corporate drunk, I totally recommend Kooyong as a great day of tennis and perving if you're into that kind of stuff..