CAMELOT FANTASIES

I am thinking about opening a thread about tennis autographs and I will definitely post it there. Also, I have been very lucky to have received Sampras' autograph through the mail, he is pretty tough signer.

About Andy, I have been attending Indian Wells since 2008 so I pretty match see him there every year. He hasn't done well there lately but he did reach the final in 2009. I have also watched him play doubles with his brother and he is a quite good doubles player too.

About liking Rafa and Grigor at the same time, I am originally from Bulgaria and until Grigor broke into the Top 100 we had only had 1(!!!) male player ever to get into Top 100.

What is funny about that player, Orlin Stanoytchev, is that he beat Federer at a Challenger tournament, I believe in 1998 Anyways, I started supporting Grigor back when he was about 16 years old. I have met him about 4 times and he is a really nice and down to earth guy. I wish he could focus more on his tennis instead on Sharapova, though

Ah, see? Now that makes sense. You are a Bulgarian and so is he. I say good for you. We do have Ranoic but for some reason, I don't find anything in him to root for him. Have to say though, he's more consistent than Dimitrov at this stage and more lethal. Dimitrov needs more experience and needs to be more consistent. He also lacks a certain amount of confidence but he'll find it as he goes through. And I agree, he always strikes me as a really nice guy. And like you, I am not sure what he sees in Sharapova but then again, I never get men's taste in women anyway.

You are right about Andy and IW. He never does well there and has yet to win this tourney. The altitude probably doesn't suit his game as much and not probably as keen either. Miami is a better offer for him and he's a resident there, so he probably connects more to that. He does like Toronto but Toronto is tricky for me as it happens every other year and I can't always make plans to go to Montreal as I am not sure if he's going to make a consistent appearance there like the good old days. I am going to Toronto since 2008 as well. lol. I live here after all.

A friend of mine at MW did promise me a signed picture of Sampras but I'd left the forum since then (July this year) and never got around to it. She did look for me for quite some time and sent me PMs, but I never wanted to go back there so couldn't go back to her. What was amazing about that incident was that, I had only found out that she was our good old president of the Samprasfanz club, a club I was member of since 1998 and once I gave her my true name, the name I used to go by back then, she recognized me right away as did I once she gave hers. That was so lovely!

Well anyway, I think you should totally make a thread and start posting whatever you have in your collection. It's so cool that you have signed copies of my favorites!