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<\/a>Taylor Fritz’s creepy fake-faced girlfriend and that creepy woman who I assume is her mother. (Taylor’s head is on the lower right.) Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n
When I decided to write this, my very first thought was how creepy hunched-over Taylor Fritz<\/strong> is. But he\u2019s not nearly as bad as his nauseating, plastic-faced girlfriend! (And that even worse-looking fish-pouted loudmouth older woman, who I assume is her mother, is the worst of them!) I root against him all the time just so that I don\u2019t have to see those females anymore.<\/p>\n As I tweeted last week, (@MajorCelebrity<\/strong>,) there must be an Olympics tennis curse! For the males, at least. All three men\u2019s medalists in Paris\u2014Novak Djokovic<\/strong>, Carlos Alcaraz<\/strong>, and Lorenzo Musetti<\/strong>\u2014lost early in this US Open, (Carlos in the second round, the other two in the third round,) and within twenty-four hours of each other! Wow. Just wow. I\u2019m assuming they were all exhausted from that extra physicality and stress just a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n This is the first time since 2002 that none<\/em> of the \u201cBig Three,\u201d (Roger Federer<\/strong>, Rafa Nadal<\/strong>, and Novak Djokovic,) has won a title at the Majors! What a changing of the guards.<\/p>\n But I predict that Novak will keep plugging on until he wins a record-setting one more. And by the way, he now has the distinction of being the earliest-eliminated defending US Open Men\u2019s Champion since 2000.<\/p>\n The Olympics tennis medalists. (L-R) Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, and Lorenzo Musetti.<\/p><\/div>\n One of the most jaw-dropping moments was unknown Clara Burel<\/strong>\u2019s comeback from nine games to none<\/em> down against former Champion here, Sloane Stephens<\/strong>. Of further interest in Clara\u2019s saga was Victoria Azarenka<\/strong>\u2019s subsequent win over her, which Vida did while suffering a blinding migraine, (which, unfortunately for me, I\u2019ve had a few years experience with, so I know she meant it when she said she could not see the ball!)<\/p>\n The always-entertaining Gael Monfils<\/strong> made me laugh out loud when he took a bow after winning a particularly dramatic point in the second round against Casper Ruud<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Pam Shriver, doing an on-camera interview! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I could not believe how absolutely schleppy commentator Pam Shriver<\/strong> looked one day when she was conducting on-court interviews with players after their victories. As I tweeted, I guess she didn\u2019t know that she was going to be on TV that day. She looked like a ragamuffin who just ran out of the stands onto the court!<\/p>\n Here it is, years after I first begged ESPN tennis host Chris McKendry<\/strong> to stop saying \u201csawL\u201d and \u201cdrawL\u201d for \u201csaw\u201d and \u201cdraw,\u201d (which are only two of her many speaking errors,) via *Twitter, yet the creepy woman still<\/em> inexplicably adds an \u201cL\u201d onto the ends of those words! *(Instead of taking my correction to heart, and learning from it, since she was obviously absent in school that day\u2014and ever since!\u2014she\u2026blocked me! That made me laugh.)<\/p>\n If anyone knows why the singer-actor Leon<\/strong>, (who played David Ruffin in the mini-series about The Temptations,) is always in Coco<\/strong> Gauff<\/strong>\u2019s box, and\/or why Station 19<\/em>\u2019s Boris Kodjoe<\/strong> is in Frances Tiafoe<\/strong>\u2019s, I beg of you to let me know the reason, in the Comments below.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff was a terrible sport at Wimbledon, even yelling at her coaches. She was also a bad sport at the Olympics, and in an early round here when she appeared to be losing.<\/p>\n Botic van de Zandschulp’s miniscule celebration after beating Novak Djokovic! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n It was so rude of commentator Chris Evert<\/strong> to implore the crowd, (who listen to the broadcasts through special free headphones in their seats,) to cheer for Coco to get her going against Elina Svitolina<\/strong>, (who is one of the kindest most well-liked people in tennis!) The spectators that day didn\u2019t really seem to care about Coco, and Elina was winning, but the sudden crazy cheering for Coco seemed to rattle Elina and she wound-up losing. Shame.<\/p>\n Botic van de Zandschulp<\/strong>, (whose last name, of course, none of the ESPN people can pronounce, except for grown-up South African Cliff Drysdale<\/strong>,) beat Novak Djokovic, one of the three favorites to win the whole thing, without screaming or pumping his fists or telling the crowd to cheer for him even once! And when he came away with that enormous win, he just gave a minuscule fist pump to his team, without making Novak feel bad about his brutal defeat. I wish everyone<\/em> was like that. That\u2019s basically how Roger Federer always was, which is just a part of the reason he\u2019s still The Stranger I Love Most.<\/p>\n Brad Gilbert looking ill on camera. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Late Friday night, ESPN commentator Brad Gilbert<\/strong> looked like he had either pinkeye or, at the very least, a very bad cold. He always<\/em> mispronounces words and players\u2019 names, so him saying \u201cPRopyrin\u201d for \u201cPopyrin\u201d and \u201cSundRay\u201d for \u201cSunday\u201d weren\u2019t clues to his health, but his eyes were very red and he was also coughing and choking. He should not<\/em> have been near his colleagues. Or he should have at least explained to the viewing audience that all of that apparent un-wellness was due to something else, like an allergy.<\/p>\n The schedule at the US Open is always so unfair. The people who play the second night matches on the main TV court are always at such a disadvantage, especially when the match before them goes long. And it\u2019s even worse for the guys because they have the potential to go five sets, as opposed to three. On Friday night, the ladies started after midnight!!! That\u2019s just crazy!<\/p>\n Quarterfinalist Emma Navarro. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n The announcing team of Chris Fowler<\/strong> and Chris Evert were sooooo rude to Emma Navarro<\/strong> during her win against Coco Gauff. They were so busy blowing smoke up Coco\u2019s butt that they completely ignored that Emma is also American, and therefore, might have fans in this \u201chome\u201d slam. And Emma was even born in New York!!! The constant extreme jingoism of the ESPN commentators is always pretty nauseating, but this time it was downright disgusting. Since the girls are both<\/em> American, they should have given them equal treatment in their comments. They just kept lamenting that Coco was losing rather than celebrating that Emma was winning! (Near the end, they all of a sudden started trying to laud Emma. I have a feeling that ESPN was getting a bunch of angry tweets about the creepy commentating, because the duo turned on a dime. I know that I<\/em> would have tweeted about it if I had been watching live! And I know firsthand that Chris Fowler is amenable to what we fans have to say; a few years ago, I tweeted to him that something he said was not right in some way, and he wrote right back that I was correct and he was sorry about it.) And now that she\u2019s<\/em> in the Quarterfinals, those ESPN peeps will be gushingly on the Emma<\/em> bandwagon.<\/p>\n I love that new-ish play-by-play guy, Mike Monaco<\/strong>, corrected Rennae Stubbs<\/strong> on her saying \u201capparently\u201d when she meant \u201callegedly.\u201d I had been iffy about a new guy joining the announcing team up until that point. (And, by the way, Rennae is my favorite of that gang\u2014she\u2019s so honest and fair and correct about all her observations\u2014so this is not a slam on her at all. I just appreciate corrections!)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>