I won’t pretend to know anything about tennis, because you know, I’ve never played it. And I’m a girl. My tennis cred is zero. It’s even lower than Anna Kournikova’s during her Enrique Iglesias music video days. However, I still watch enough of it to be really excited that Nadal just lost a 5-set third round match to an unseeded Lukas Rosol (fun fact: his last name means “chicken soup” in several Slavic languages). I don’t have a whole lot against Nadal, or a whole lot that even makes him memorable. He doesn’t give press conferences in nine languages and have Anna Wintour as his on-call personal stylist. He doesn’t have parents who are so endearingly Serbian that they still wear iron-transfer t-shirts with their son’s picture on them to cheer him on at grand slams. He has a weird uncle that maybe gives me the creeps a little, but overall, Nadal seems like a nice enough guy. So why am I, in my very humble opinion, so pumped that he is out of the tournament?
