Magic Jewball

Just a bit more tennis, if you can stand it. Congratulations to Israel’s own Andy Ram who won the French Open Mixed Doubles Championship with someone not Israeli. Oh, I kid, it’s lovely Natalie Dechy of France. My, they look happy. I think the prize for this is 100€. To share.

When asked to comment, Ram said, “Could I look any more Israeli and could she look any more French?”

(Hat tip to Brother2 on the photo.)

They don’t have “We Are the Champions” on Napster. Just hum it in your head.

Look at how prolific I am this week! And despite all my tennis watching! Not to mention the need to work for a living. I know only three people will be interested in this, but I ask you, how many people will be interested in staring at yesterday’s post for another day? If you are, by all means go ahead. And should you have anything else to say about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, feel free to go back and comment on the last post. But for anyone interested in either tennis or people making fools of themselves, I present you with the Worst of Roland Garros Karaoke. Actually, it was all the worst. Believe me, I sat through fifteen videos so you wouldn’t have to. It was a lot like the Gong Show. Some players got the “next” button hit fairly quickly. I left out the ones you’ve never heard of (I liked Novak Djokovic best but, although he’s in the semi-finals, there will only be those three of you who care).

Naturally, French players got a lot of space but only one of their karaoke vids was J-Ball worthy. And although there was a fun parody of the movie “Amelie” with Amelie Mauresmo, it’s all in French so I could only snicker and not guffaw. I hate when I just know something’s funny but can’t really be sure what.

OK, on to the videos! Keep in mind that several of these people seem to have no clue as to the words – did they not provide them with lyrics? And the two goofy guys in white are the back-up singers. They come with the karaoke machine, I guess. (Sorry the videos aren’t available on RSS feed but I’m not dealing with YouTube here. Come on over!)

Here’s Rafael Nadal doing La Bamba. I’m thinking he heard this song for the first time ten minutes earlier.

And here’s Lleyton Hewitt, just like I like him, looking stupid. I think they made everything in the room white, including everyone’s clothes, to make Lleyton look less albino.

Here’s Serena Williams. She only seemed to want to dance. Poorly.

Without a doubt, the most fun guy on the tour is Fabrice Santoro. I’m bizarrely mesmerized by his rendition of this song.

And here’s my favorite, Sweet Kim Clijsters who is now retired. I wish I could have retired at 23. This is from last year.

Honorable mention goes to Roger Federer doing “Simply the Best” (very appropriate but too slow to load what with all our short attention spans) and John McEnroe’s “Born in the USA.” I guess “I’m an Obnoxious Blowhard” wasn’t available. You can see all these, Novak Djokovik’s bare chest, Gaël Monfils and the Jackson Two, and lots more at France3’s Un jour à Roland.