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Overall I think I played a good match but there is still room for improvement, particularly with consistency. I need to be more consistent and I didn’t show my best today but I played well when I needed to.The conditions were different today, the roof was open and it was windy and we had to get used to the conditions which affected both our games throughout the match. But, overall, I am happy with the way I played.
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Thanx, Dart. [H]
"The best athletes of Russian always support their country."
Y'know, there's more to your signature line than meets the eye. [Y] There's not much professional tennis in my part of Texas, so I was looking through Junior ITF events close enough that I might actually go see them. (Turns out there are a couple. [:)])
There''s a noticable constituency with names like Savchuk, Kirilenko, Kuznetsov... the bulk of these are obviously emigré kids brought to the States from the former Soviet space. Now, this has been going on for a long time--but how's that working out for them?
Off the top of my head, I can only name Lepchenko, Jidkova, on the men's side Kuznetsov, who've ever made it into the professional circuit at all--and those have yet to distinguish themselves in any way.
There are unarguable benefits to the "foreign academies" in Europe & America. But the Russian stars we know have either held to the Motherland by one means or another and eventually returned home. For all the talk about what Russia doesn't have, this fact is undeniable.
Родина! Daughters of Lenin, daughters of Yeltsin... ДА-ВА-ЙЙЙЙЙ!!!!! [H]
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Daughters of Putin are the best ones or will be the best ones in the future.
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[Y] I guess Vlad is old enough to be their father. Seems more like a big brother... [;)]
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Daughters and Winners of the WWII
This song was written at first day of the Germany Attack at 22.06.1941
http://www.youtube.com/w...a6Hb1nPw&feature=related
СВЯЩЕННАЯ ВОЙНА
Get up, the giant country,
Get up for mortal fight
With German horde uncounted,
With forces of the night
Chorus:
Let noble anger of the soul
Get boiled as a wave.
The peoples war, the holy war.
Well fight until the grave.
Let's give repulse to oppressors
Of all the ardent thoughts.
To rapers and to murderers,
Let's say the swear words.
Chorus:
We will not let the darkened wings
Fly over Motherland.
The native country spacious fields
Are not for fiend's extend.
Chorus:
For rotten fascist pack we've got
A bullet and a bomb.
The spawn of the planet Earth
Must get into the tomb.
1941
"I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi." said Sharapova Maria.
