Caroline, a fabulous tennis player, pulls out all the stops (the auto-tune stops, that is) on a song called “Oxygen” she, er, sings for charity.
We don’t want to criticize much here, because it’s all in a good cause – any proceeds from this effort go to benefit the Danish and Polish paralympic teams. But maybe a little more of her voice – whatever it may sound like – and a little less of the studio engineer’s hot little fingers on the auto-tune knobs might have introduced just a little humanity into the thing.
Check it out:
Then again, with lyrics like “Come over here so I can touch your body. Don’t make me wait. Don’t hesitate” and
“You’re like the gravity that’s holding’ me, it’s pulling babe,” maybe going hog-wild on that auto-tune was the best production decision after all.
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One day after the euphoria of beating world #3 Roger Federer, American Andy Roddick tasted the dregs of defeat in losing to Juan Monaco.
Roddick didn’t just lose – he got smoked 7-6, 6-0. Apparently he wasn’t yet fit after coming back from injury. Funny – he looked pretty good against Federer.
Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic avoided the Federer stumble and are through to the next round.
Meanwhile, on the women’s side, Screamin’ Serena Williams’ string of convincing wins came to an end against former world #1 Caroline Wozniacki. Ever-petulant Serena mumbled post-match woe-is-me comments about how everyone she plays always comes up with their biggest match, and how she herself “only played at about 20%.”
Caroline now moves on to a semi-final against Maria Sharapova, a match that will set a new record for tall, willowy blondness.
Watching from the sidelines will be Serena. But for lessons in grace under pressure, she need look no further than big sis Venus, whose win over another former world #1, Ana Ivanovic, now puts her in the surprising position of a semi-final matchup against Radwanska. “Surprising” because prior to this tournament, 31-year-old Venus had not played a single tennis match in 2012 and had spent much of her time receiving treatment for an autoimmune disease…not exactly the way you prep for top-flight tennis in the south Florida heat.
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U.S. Open action really heats up today & onward with a good number of top seeds through into the quarter-finals.
Rafael Nadal should kick the surprising Andy Roddick’s butt all over the court…if for no other reason than Roddick took a grueling 37 games to get past Rafa’s Spanish buddy David Ferrer, whereas Rafa himself didn’t need nearly as long to dispatch Gilles Muller from Luxembourg.
Roger Federer eliminated the pesky Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to earn himself a date with Novak Djokovic on Saturday. Roger’s going to be a sentimental favourite, but Djoko, at 64-2 this year, will prevail, we think.
In the women’s draw, the semis are set with Caroline Wozniacki v Serena Williams playing the winner of Sam Stosur v Angelique Kerber. Stosur’s looking great this week after finishing off world #2 Vera Zvonareva in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3.
Best Player predicts this:
- a Nadal-Djokovic final with Djoko taking it in 4 sets
- Stosur v Serena final – Stosur in a 3rd-set tiebreak
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Williams: now one of the faves
Serena Williams easily defeated former world #1 Ana Ivanovic on Monday and advanced to the quarter-finals of the US Open. She’ll meet Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for the right to play either Caroline Wozniacki or Andrea Petkovic in the semis.
On the men’s side, Djokovic, Tipsarevik, and the increasingly tough Jo-Wilfred Tsonga are already through to the quarters.
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