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June 05, 2004
Myskina wins French Open: Named after a Russian royal, Anastasia Myskina took her place on the throne of claycourt tennis on Saturday, thrashing Elena Dementieva in an all-Russian French Open final.
posted by babuchutkan to tennis at 12:14 PM - 15 comments
But is she a babe?
posted by Fat Buddha at 02:24 PM on June 05, 2004
Beyond a shadow of a question, Buddha. Vavoom, etc. And she's going to be around for a while. She's gotten better every year.
posted by chicobangs at 06:09 PM on June 05, 2004
See ya, Kournikova. I think we have a new winner. W-I-N-N-E-R.
posted by worldcup2002 at 07:23 PM on June 05, 2004
btw, Myskina images Dementieva images While I don't think they match Kournikova in the looks dept., they have more than amply trounced her in the actually-winning-something-at-the-highest-level dept. Google War has different results: Myskina vs Kournikova 103,000 - 1,680,000 Dementieva vs Kournikova 108,000 - 1,680,000
posted by worldcup2002 at 07:54 PM on June 05, 2004
WC has p00r skillz: Actual Google Image search for Myskina
posted by billsaysthis at 12:02 PM on June 06, 2004
And Chicobangs, BillSaysCheckYourEyes because that girl, while not ugly, is not close to my definition of 'babe'.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:03 PM on June 06, 2004
Bah, not a patch on Daniela Hantuchova
posted by BigCalm at 12:34 PM on June 06, 2004
Bah, not a patch on Daniela Hantuchova Dude, she looks like Malcolm In The Middle.
posted by molafson at 02:12 PM on June 06, 2004
Hantuchova looks like, at most, the middle of the middle of Malcolm in the Middle. No knock, just saying. And talent and success are as big a turn-on for me as blue-eyed brunettes with great legs are. Anna K. looks like a computer-generated doll. I understand the attraction, it's just -- ah, let me slip past you in the line to meet Myskina, then, okay, Bill? Right. Again, everyone wins.
posted by chicobangs at 02:45 PM on June 06, 2004
Talk to me about Hantuchova when she wins something. She doesn't measure up to Myskina or even Dementieva in that dept. And she sure doesn't come close to Anna in the other dept.
posted by worldcup2002 at 11:18 PM on June 06, 2004
I think it's all about Ashley Harkleroad.
posted by gyc at 02:23 AM on June 07, 2004
Gee, it's a good thing that at least some of them are babes. Otherwise, what reason would there be to watch women's tennis, or any women's sports? (for the history-impaired: even those who sprinkle euphoric drugs on their breakfast cereal, and who therefore believe that women's and men's sports are at parity, are not so deluded as to believe that it has been that way for very long at all. when, as we have here, the majority of comments in a thread about female athletes is about their appearance rather than their ability, that's not coincidence...it's just History Repeating, a continuation of the same shit, different decade. it doesn't matter how far we've come, baby, if we keep getting dragged back.)
posted by lil_brown_bat at 11:06 AM on June 07, 2004
don't think they match Kournikova in the looks dept. I agree with chicobangs. Anna to me was always just a plain jane with blonde hair, a short skirt and a tan. Myskina is still growing into her looks, but she has that same thing that the very foxy Katherine Moenning has. Then again, my tastes have always run more toward single malt scotches than vanilla milkshakes, though both may have agreeable qualities to most. As far as the actual tennis goes, I'm rooting for another dominant figure to come onto the scene as the Williams sisters just don't seem to have the desire any more.
posted by psmealey at 01:36 PM on June 09, 2004
psmealey, the L World Online doesn't cotton to your direct image links.
posted by billsaysthis at 05:52 PM on June 09, 2004
Wow, 6-1 6-2. I would have thought it to be closer. Makes me feel not so bad missing the match do to work.