Tennis aficionados are waiting with breath that is bated for the outcome of tomorrow’s match between America’s Andy Roddick and Canada’s Milos Raonic at the ATP World Tour of tennis tournament in Memphis, Tennesee. I know what you’re thinking. Canada’s who? Well Milos has just come from defeating the world’s ninth ranked tennis player, Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, (say that three times fast and tell me that doesn’t feel good) in the SAP final in San Jose, California. Tomorrow Milos will face number one ranked U. S. player (at the tournament) Andy Roddick.
Milos was born in the former Yugoslavia, now Montenegro and now resides in, as the American commentators tell us, Thornhill, Canada. That’s like saying I hail from Portland, United States. However, there are a couple of cities named Portland. One happens to be in Maine and the other, Oregon. Lucky for those idiot tennis commentators, there is only one Thornhill, Canada which by the way is in the province of Ontario.
The commentators are calling this U.S./Canadian tennis final, “payback for the Olympic final in hockey where the Canadians defeated the Americans in Vancouver in 2010.” The commentators obviously have no idea of the magnitude of both hockey in Canada and the difference between winning a lame trophy in the best of three tennis tournament and winning a gold medal in the Olympics. I wonder if the commentators even know what a couple making love in a canoe and American beer have in common? Well, if you must know they’re both f---ing close to water.
The commentators went on to say Canadians are very excited about the future for Milos because the last time they celebrated a Canadian individual sports achievement was Mike Weir winning the Masters golf tournament in 2003. Yes, Canada is in a sports slump. They only managed 14 gold medals in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the most gold medals of any country and the most ever on Canadian soil. How sad for them.
Yes. Canada is suffering. They pay nothing for health care. No one ever screws up the words to their national anthem because anyone who has ever attended a hockey game (which is everyone) knows the words to the National anthem in both English and in French. And now they can lay claim to a top 50 tennis player. What’s next, a female Prime Minister? Nope. Already had one.
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