The All-Gabon Lawn Tennis Championships 2008

Akhenaten · Pro player

The All-Gabon Lawn Tennis Championships 2008

Drew · Nov 18, 2008

Such an original story-line !
Could never happen in real life.
Well done!

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

steven · Tennis legend

I wonder if the Gabon Tennis Federation is the only national tennis federation in the world whose main email address is a hotmail address smile

- see http://www.gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?id=53602

I think the ITF has a stated policy of trying to popularise tennis in as many African countries as possible by organising Futures in seemingly random locations, which seems fair enough.

Edit: they did have a DC team in 2001-2004 which has beaten Senegal once and Uganda twice. They seem to have disbanded it after 2004's won 0 rubbers lost 12 in a RR group with Nigeria, Mali, Senegal and San Marino.

-- Edited by steven at 09:01, 2008-11-19

Akhenaten · Pro player

The Gabon F1 thread
from the raven.klaasen.net messageboard
18 Nov 2008

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Fox: "Raven won 6-2 6-1

The guy's a superstar."
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Stevie : "That's only Klaasen's second ever 6-2 6-1 over a right-handed player on a Tuesday on a hard court. Significantly his next opponent Marc Rath WR (I'll fill the World Ranking later) has never beaten a right-handed opponent on a Tuesday on a hard court."
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Mad Elaine : "Those stats bode badly. The Kiss of Death for sure... The lad's doomed now. Doomed! Here's a bizarre emoticon.

Now where's my half-empty mug of coffee gone..."
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Emoen : "No worries. Klaasen will win the whole thing easy peasy.

"
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Crazymixer : "Fox

, however excited we all are

by Raven's win, there

is no excuse in

concatenating 'super'

and 'star' into one word.

"
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DJ Jazzy Jeff : "How-ever?

In-to?

"
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Lord Pi : "Wath a grate inw buy Naver!"
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DJ Jazzy Jeff : "Thanks Fox for the result and Stevie for his erudite statistical information. Gratefully received as ever. A gracious thank you to Gazeboman too for the post you'll make which will inevitably be an artistic masterclass in forum posting (post-Gazebo-resurrection). My most humble apologies to Crazymixer for my witticism, my undeniable... (2 more pages follow)"
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Masta K : "Chanakira score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Live score! Live score!"
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Mad Elaine : "I just finished building a giant wicker effigy of Marc Rath in my back garden. Ready to burn! Cackle, cackle."
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Emoen : "Cackle, cackle"
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Mad Elaine : "Here's a bizarre emoticon...

"
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Lord Pi : "Who od you enstal a spleen-chekcer on a commuter?"
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Stevie : "Interesting. That is only the third time Lord Pi has spelt the word 'you' correctly in 1660 posts. The last time was on the 10 Sept 07 in the thread on Indonesia F2."
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Dru : "Raven won 6-2 6-1

"
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AlwaysLate(IBlameTheGovernment) : "I've seen Rath play in Mali. Good news - He's a complete chump."
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Keep Off The Boose : "Trump the Chump. Tramp the Champ. Tim the Chimp. Tony the Tiger. Slump on the Keyboard. uaghgarhhalnaghathaehat"
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MUGABE 4 NO. 10 : "I slept with Akhenaten's grandmother! Haha. You're all smelly. Haha"
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Panda : "Why is Raven's 10-year-old prodigy brother, Seagull Klaasen, still being forced to play in the juniors surely he should have been given a WC in the quarters here.

"
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Jonboy : "Klaaseny!

"
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Masta K : "You of that here philosophise??? The horns of Russia to beat you off!!! Rams... The Rage does not suffice on you!!!"
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Stevie : "Marc Rath actually means 'Year Of The Drunken Antelope' in Swahili so I think we should nickname him 'Auntie'"
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* Me and my grandmother kicked up quite a fuss about 'Mugabe 4 No. 10' offensive comments, and a few moments ago I'm glad to report that 'Mugabe 4 No. 10' resigned from his Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show.

-- Edited by Akhenaten at 10:35, 2008-11-19

steven · Tennis legend

Post of the year, no contest. biggrin

(even if it risks making half of us - well, me anyway! - too embarrassed to ever post here again!)

'Tears of laughter' lines included:

Stevie : "Interesting. That is only the third time Lord Pi has spelt the word 'you' correctly in 1660 posts. The last time was on the 10 Sept 07 in the thread on Indonesia F2."

Panda : "Why is Raven's 10-year-old prodigy brother, Seagull Klaasen, still being forced to play in the juniors surely he should have been given a WC in the quarters here.

"

Dru : "Raven won 6-2 6-1

" (masterful placement wink

)

... but really there are too many to mention. biggrin

-- Edited by steven at 10:46, 2008-11-19

Count Zero · Tennis legend

lol brilliant

i like this one:

Stevie : "That's only Klaasen's second ever 6-2 6-1 over a right-handed player on a Tuesday on a hard court. Significantly his next opponent Marc Rath WR (I'll fill the World Ranking later) has never beaten a right-handed opponent on a Tuesday on a hard court."

-- Edited by Count Zero at 10:50, 2008-11-19

Akhenaten · Pro player

Sorry!

Love you all really!

christian · Intermediate Club Player

That was absolutely brilliant, literally laughed out loud at my desk which is not good in work.

The Hoose · Satellite level

That was GGRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT, as Tony the Tiger would say. You've summed everyone up perfectly: I'm off for another G&T.

Count Zero · Tennis legend

steven wrote:

Dru : "Raven won 6-2 6-1 " (masterful placement )

i didnt get this one intially but now i do. very good

Akhenaten · Pro player

The Triad have just published their first 13 recommendations :

1)   Christmas break from October to February.
2)   Written entrance exams for all new pros.
3)   More tournaments in "nice" places.
4)   Less tournaments in "grotty" places.
5)   Summer break from May to September.
6)   Blonde-only models to line judge and umpire.
7)   Free 24 hour animal nursery for all players.
8)   Third serves.
9)   Less wind.
10)   Less rain.
11)   Mandatory white flannel trousers.
12)   TRIPLE POINTS in 2010. Woohoo!
13)   Tripling money what we get (in line with points).

Akhenaten · Pro player

The Collapsing Legend

The tablet bearing 'The Legend of Komlavi Loglo' has started to crack... big time.

The favourite for the Beijing Olympics and the Togoan flag-bearer, crashed out of the Olympics in the first round to a South African Kevin. And although Loglo has probably already written himself in the history books as one of the greatest players ever, it has caught us all by surprise, by how similar the speed of his plummet has been to dropping defecated hippo poo.

And yesterday things went from really bad to even worse, as the former king of Togo was ignominiously dumped out of Gabon F1, beaten (coincidentally) by King Barry of Ireland 6-2 6-2.

Komlavi Loglo insists he is not worried by his rapid fall in rankings.

"For me, honestly, ranking two, three, four, five, 25, 721, it doesn't really matter a whole lot. It is either number one or being in the main draw," said Loglo.

Fattar Anas (the 8th seed who yesterday saw off Duncan Mugabe), said "He, the best ever. No more to say. He made us chase. We chased. We caught." Anas pondered for a while. "... Well some of us caught... Not me... But I keep chase. I chase. I just chase." Poor Anas then started to cry.

Loglo insisted he has no plans to retire in the near future, and is looking forward to the new playing conditions in 2009. "How could I retire! 2009 - It's DOUBLE POINTS!!"

Drew · Nov 19, 2008

Count Zero wrote:

steven wrote:

Dru : "Raven won 6-2 6-1 " (masterful placement )

i didnt get this one intially but now i do. very good

So thats me triple-bashed !!!!

Fab post...really cheered me up biggrin

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

Akhenaten, you are a L-E-G-E-N-D (hides before Stircrazy sees this post)

Here's a bizarre emoticon for you

You obviously spend far too much time reading this board!