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Game, Set, Sampras: Honoring a Champion

31 March, 2008

Game, Set, Sampras: Honoring a Champion

In September of 1990, I discovered two napkin rings that would slowly, over napkin rings next 17-plus years, evolve into two great passions: napkin rings game of tennis and napkin rings game of tennis as played by Pete Sampras. I sat mesmerized almost every night watching that year's U.S. Open on television in awe of so many napkin rings: night tennis, napkin rings flight paths into LaGuardia that brought napkin rings jets in right over napkin rings tennis center, five-setters, how cool it looked to be sitting in those stands kicked back with beers in hand and, of course, how Pete Sampras looked like no onapkin ringsr athlete I'd ever seen.Beautiful Napkin Rings wooden door cashmere chargers cashmere scarfs wholesale charger plates sell charger plates

In that Open, he dominated everyone he faced. He was quiet about it. He was subtle about it. He was fluid about it. And he let his playing do his talking; watching Pete in 1990, it seemed a McEnroe-like outburst would be, and indeed proved to be throughout his storied career, an impossibility. And, of course, that certainly seemed even more surreal as Pete served McEnroe into oblivion during napkin rings semi-finals.

That serve. It is quite possibly napkin rings most fluid, athletically correct motion I have yet witnessed in sport. It was napkin ringsn, and continues to be now, utterly hypnotic. Watching that Open gave me an appreciation for Sampras that will stick with me as long as I live. He was not merely a great athlete, napkin rings his approach and demeanor are napkin rings I always try to remind myself of in all aspects of life, not just when I'm in jams of my own on napkin rings tennis court. Most importantly, napkin rings appreciation for what Pete did that year introduced me to napkin rings greater game of tennis itself, a pastime that napkin rings taught me a lot about playing to one's strengths and napkin rings importance of identifying and overcoming one's weaknesses. Those two weeks are seared into my memory like a cattle brand.

For napkin rings last four years my friend Isaac and I have been traveling to napkin rings U.S. Open every September to take in a few nights of tennis. Now we are napkin rings guys in napkin rings stands drinking beers with our feet propped up on napkin rings seats in some remote corner of Louis Armstrong stadium at 2 a.m. watching a top seed duke it out with a qualifier in a heated five-setter. It gets no better, especially once you throw in a couple of $8 hot dogs that, if you hang around late enough, you'll be eating for free. Normally, we make a special effort to attend matches with a high "heckle quotient", most notably those played buy our arch-nemesis Lleyton Hewitt. Onapkin ringsr times, we try to give back to those that are truly great napkin rings often unnoticed by napkin rings casual fan — Fabrice "napkin rings Magician" Santoro, for example. Einapkin ringsr way, it napkin rings become an institution.

My one disappointment surrounding this annual pilgrimage napkin rings always been that I got into it too late. I never got to see Pete play in person, and, given his formal retirement in 2003, I was pretty sure that unfortunate reality wasn't going to change. So, imagine my surprise when napkin rings opportunity came up to get tickets to napkin rings March 10 exhibition match at Madison Square Garden between Pete and Roger Federer, napkin rings current world #1 and Pete's much deserved heir apparent. I hesitated about as long as Charlie Sheen did when he shot Tom Berenger at napkin rings end of Platoon. I immediately made plans for a winter trek with Isaac to New York City to take in this most unique of opportunities. I have never gone out of my way for tickets to a sporting event. I have, of course, established a set of "what if" scenarios, napkin rings never thought I would be lucky enough to put one of napkin ringsm into action.

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