Roger Federer already holds a distinct advantage over his opponents when he decides to hit the ball the normal way.  It seems that regular forehands and backhands bore him to the point that he has to do this to amuse himself:

That’s no schmuck on the other side of the net either, Djokovic is the #4 player in the world and he doesn’t get anywhere close to returning that ball.

Roger is about to begin his match as I write this sentence, but the outcome of this match is not in doubt to anyone this side of Del Porto.  In honor of Roger winning his 16th grand slam title, let’s look at some of the more ridiculous shots of his amazing career:

(UPDATE: How funny those words look now that Mr. Del Porto is now a one time Grand Slam winner and Roger sits on 15.  My next post will be Del Porto’s top 15, as soon as he has 15 amazing shots posted on youtube.)

 15 .Roger against Andy Roddick

14. Unbelivable quickness and skill is required to get to this ball and then slice it like this:

13. 2005 Semi-Final against Nadal. Unreal defense:

I’m not sure how he got any pace on this ball whatsoever, but he sure made James Blake look dumb:

12. I’m not sure this ball would have been returned even if there were four people on the other side of the court. For your reference, it would take around 19 of me to return it and that’s only after the ball ricoched off my face.

11. Nasty backhand flip.

10. Roger makes Andy Roddick look dumb after a returning a 140 mph Roddick serve:

9. Sometimes he doesn’t even need a raquet:

8. Crazy smash makes Djokovic look dumb.

7. I didn’t even know this was legal:

6. This should be illegal if it isn’t:

5. Pinpoint backhand

4. This is how you make Goran Ivanisevic angry. In case you were wondering.

3. The guy he hits this shot against isn’t bad either.

2. Another amazing show of quickness.

1. This might be even more amazing than the between the legs shot because of the distance he had to cover to get to the two returns.

Savor these moments because you are watching the greatest tennis player of all-time and maybe the most dominant athlete of all-time ply his craft.   Oh I’m sorry, he’s the second most dominant…next to Y.E. Yang.

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The Williams’ sisters were treated to a free show at the Australian Open on Friday. A streaker hoped the fence and did a little jig in front of Serena and Venus during a break in their doubles match.

The video of said jig say yet to be released, but I can show you these videos:

and here is he exiting the court:

While you’ve probably seen that video, you might not have seen the quotes from Serena, which read out of context would lead you to believe that Serena and this dude got down right on the baseline:

“I saw him jump over and then I noticed he didn’t have underwear on. I thought ‘Okay, I must be seeing things’,” Williams told reporters after beating China’s Peng Shuai in singles on Saturday.

“Then he disappeared, and I was like ‘Okay, so he’s not coming’. But then I saw him, he recovered I guess, and ran out on the court.

“I was thinking, I hope he doesn’t come, because he was pretty close to me and V (Venus).

“I was like, I hope he doesn’t come, he’s too close. I thought, ‘this is crazy’.

Fear not, you gutter minded tennis fan, she continued:

Williams said she had never really feared for her safety but did admit the incident left her with a bad case of the giggles.

“In those type of moments, it seems really long, but it was weird,” she said. “It was just funny and everyone was laughing…it was interesting.”

I’m sure she was nervous about talking about the streaker, but could she finish a quote without making a veiled reference to his guys wiener?

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By now, most tennis fans and dudes who like chicks are aware of good looking tennis chicks like Ana Ivanovic, Daniela Hantuchova and Maria Sharapova. However, even I was unaware that Andrei Kirilenko had a hot, potential relative that played professional tennis. And luckily, she looks absolutely nothing like Andrei Kirilenko. Meet Maria Kirilenko, the 19th seed in the Championships Wimbledon. Actually, now that I look at the tourney results from today, we can say, “hello” and “goodbye” to Maria as she was ousted by none other than Vera Dushevina in the first round. That doesn’t mean we can still oggle the aspring model and 19th ranked women’s tennis player. Oggle away:

and my personal favorite:

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I woke up this morning with a smile on my face because I knew something wonderful had happened the previous day.  No, I am not speaking about that horse, who probably had no idea that it was in a race, finishing last in the Belmont.  Instead, I am speaking of my future wife, young Ana Ivanovic, who captured the French Open Title.  She even looks hot after playing a two hour tennis match.

I like Ivanovic more than a friend, so I am very excited to see her break through for her first Grand Slam victory.  Below I have compiled some of the best evidence as to why I love her in a tribute to her triumph.

In case you are wondering what she is saying: “I’m hot, I’m hot, I’m hot,” over and over again.  If you listen very closely at the end she says, “I love the Angry T.”

Is there anything this girl can’t do:

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Who knew that Australians were so stuffy?  I have watched Crocodile Dundee several times and I never got the vibe that a something like this would get Australians’ panties all in bunch.  I have half a mind to fly down to Australia and re-create that scene from Bad News Bears at the Astrodome where everybody screams “Let them play! Let them play!”

These stuck up old country club farts must think that this nine year old is trying distracting her opponent.  That is very impressive gamesmanship from nine year old. 
Apparently she picked up this habit from her favorite player, Maria Sharapova.  In all honesty, when Shrapova grunts, it is kind of hot.  So, in  honor of Maria, this nine-year old, and tennis’ best grunters, we have put together the All-Grunt Team, complete with videos’

Maria Sharapova – Maria’s grunts top out at a whopping 101 decibels.

Monica Seles – Seles’ grunts were once measured at a 93.2 decibels

Anna Kournikova – I couldn’t find video of her grunting, but I did find this:

Serena Williams  and Venus Williams

Jimmy Connors – Connors is playing Johnny Mac in the video.  Fast forward to one min to see the tennis.

Rafael Nadal –

Andre Agassi –  Pretty funny stuff

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