That Was The Tweet That Was

Written by: Resendiz on 13th April 2013

That Was The Tweet That Was

epa03385080 Andy Roddick of the US hits a return to Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina during their fourth round match on the tenth day of the 2012 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 05 September 2012. The US Open runs through Sunday 09 September 2012. EPA/LARRY W. SMITH |

A round up of tennis tweets, collated by @GameSetNash

TWTTTW returns with a little bit of Janko #sigh. @TipsarevicJanko is one of the more controversial figures of the men’s tour, he’s never one to be backward coming forward – which is course makes him excellent to follow on twitter and Instagram. This last week he’s been revealing some new training secrets – cryotherapy! And that’s exactly what it sounds like.

He was clearly a little nervous about the cutting edge treatment, posting pictures in the build up of him in a bathrobe with his face in his hands “preparing for my first cryotherapy… -150 degrees does not sound like fun” Oh I don’t know, it’s fun for us Janko!

Whatever it does to his body, it has a startling effect on his mind. Separate from the cryotherapy chronicles, he posted a picture of dust-stained trainers with the legend “Clay…you dirty dirty whore…#sigh”. Well as us Brits might say where there’s muck, there’s brass. (If you’re from London, trust me, that’s hilarious – brass is another colloquialism similar to whore…) But wait! Janko wrote that before his spell in the deep freeze… oh well, #sigh!

@sloanetweets has bought some pets! She posted a picture and asked her followers “one of three turtles I got today! What should I name my little babes??” Three turtles? THREE? You’ve gotta get four and a rat called Splinter, Sloane; it’s as plain as the nose on your face. Kids these days, eh? Honestly… so disrespectful.

@IrinaFalconi is an odd girl isn’t she? Firstly she tweets “Feeding a cat peanut butter may very well be funnier than feeding it to a dog” – well that may as well be, but what a waste of peanut butter! On that note; putting it with ‘jelly’ in a sandwich is also a horrific abomination too. I like a lot of American foodie ideas, mainly because they normally involve putting bacon and cheese on top of things, but peanut butter jelly sandwiches are just WRONG.

Young Australian Ashleigh Barty still has a lot to learn about food too. She tweeted “Chipotle twice in one day… Why not!” I’ll tell you why Ashleigh… have you ever heard of Montezuma’s revenge??

Keeping on the food theme, @milosraonic is my kinda guy. When I saw his tweet declaring “…I love popcorn!!!!” I thought sure, who doesn’t. But Milos really really loves popcorn. He’s holding a bag bigger than himself and tipping it into his mouth. Geezer.

Brad Gilbert was never going to go two episodes of TWTTTW without an appearance, he’s back with an observation that it’s “So annoying when the hotel has really bad pillows @mrsgnation and me a bit crook in the neck.” A long thread of discussion followed, which was concluded with @bgtennisnation declaring angrily “I hate those kinda pillows”. Right on Brad! Stick it to ‘The Man’. If he’s got a pain in the neck, he must now know how Mrs gilbert’s been feeling for all these years…

@TheBorisBecker had an [insert your own dumbstruck superlative here] week. He’s been a busy boy on twitter, posting those incredibly annoying inspirational quotes that people post, interspersed with pictures of baby gorillas and then an astonishing number of, shall we say, ‘risqué’ pictures of women in various states of undress. It was… well, it was intresting. He ended the slideshow with an assertion that “btw… my wife is the coolest girl on the planet!!!! So don’t worry…” I think we should leave it there with that – in future Boris, tag them “NSFW” would’ya?

Whilst everyone has been watching NBA, golf and ice hockey, @RafaelNadal has been watching the football. Good lad! He’s in the strange position, possibly unique for a Spanish footy fan, of having links with both protagonists of El Clasico. Rafa has been a lifelong Real Madrid fan, but his uncle Miguel played for Barcalona – he was known as 2The Best of Barcelona” a no-nonsense central defender. I can remember a time when young Rafa was known as “Miguel’s nephew” and now look how it’s changed – Migeul isn’t even Rafa’s most famous uncle!

Rafa tweeted “Interesting #Champions draw. Good luck to the Spanish teams! Barça-Madrid would be a great final!” It certainly would, and it’s being held in Wembley too – sadly Rafa probably won’t attend – he doesn’t like the taxes here, but I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Toni and Miguel’s place for that game!

Last word from @andyroddick “@carowozniacki I just watched your shot from the par 3 yesterday… On the bright side you’re one of the nicest people I know”. Any more dry humour and sarcasm Andy, and I’ll have to make you an honourary Brit! Caro is a girl with a great sense of humour, and didn’t back down from the goading – she gave as good as she got believe me.

Somebody somewhere GET ANDY RODDICK A MICROPHONE. He’s top class, and any station getting him on board would instantly become my favourite channel to watch tennis on.

Hell, I’d watch paint dry on television if it had Andy Roddick calling it.

Topics: Sports, Tennis, Tennis News