CAMELOT FANTASIES

it already done mr tee.

and it looks incredible.

this one is just for you emma:

BTW, Lady Emma, I heard you are a big fan of Andy Murray. I have seen him play in Indian Wells a couple of times and I even have a photo with him He is a very cool guy, he also signed a picture for me as well

Yes, very big fan of Andy. Did you enjoy watching him? I've seen him in Toronto (2010) where he beat Nadal in straight sets and then went to beat Federer in the final in straight sets as well. That was pretty cool.

I'll see him next year again for sure but not sure how keen he'll be winning this title. I'll try to catch earlier - win or loss.

Anyway, you should post the signed picture!

Mr. T, what I find very interesting about your signature is the fact that you have both Nadal and Dimitrov as your faves. I've not seen a Nadal fan also liking Dimitrov. It seems very much like a Federer fan's choice as they are so desperately looking for a Fed clone or something, but yours really strikes me as something very genuine. I was a very big fan of Sampras and after his retirement in 2002, I laid very low and didn't look for anyone to support. I would just watch tennis and enjoyed my break back then very much. However, I did support Hewitt a great deal and wasn't a big fan of Safin's antics though I really liked his tennis. Anyway, long story short, after I've become a fan of Murray, I've heard so many comments from my online forum friends who had seen me supporting Sampras and they'd always, 'how come you are a fan of Murray after Sampras?'. The main reason was, somehow they thought I was into S&V and didn't care about baseline rallies as much since I wasn't a big of Agassi. But in truth, I have no specific game-style that I personally like or a specific persona that I look for. I like the complete package. Sampras, Hewitt, Murray are all good human beings on top of being very consistent and lethal in tennis, so that works very well for me. I see nothing but true originality in them and they always remain firmly grounded. For the same reasons, I am a fan of Nole as well. So these are faves and I dig them because of these reasons. There are a lot of other players I like of course. In fact, there only a very few I don't really like but I have no reason to judge them.

nikki stopped by your café a while back.


I see she has been around today. poor thing probably did not find anybody here earlier.


she is a wonderful person.

herc, thanks for posting that cafe picture on the main page! I do think the size is still a bit too big - should be half the size. I also noticed all the people in that cafe are all old! OMG lol. I really like old people but my cafe should reflect the youth. Oh well.

And thanks for Andy's pictures. All on clay. There's something so ironic about that. I now for a fact he doesn't like playing on clay all that much. Not only his movement is slightly compromised but also, he doesn't' have any true desire for it. I mean if he had he would have played some small tourney at least in his early years and could have won a few. But now that both RG and Wimbledon are so back to back and he's so keen on grass, I doubt he'll give too much effort come RG. Perhaps later in his years when he'll enough grass titles, he might want to give it a shot...like Sampras did in 1996. Wimbledon was so precious to Sampras that he'd never pay much attention to RG. If possible he would have skipped it but then there's this overall ranking points involved and he needed to make a decent appearance there without taking much injury risk just before Wimbledon. He also cared about the #1 ranking a great deal so that was a factor.

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!