Clean-plate club: As Wimbledon begins to wrap up, we’ve been scooping up the best little bits of the tourney yet to get big play on the TSF stage before you all run for the parks and beaches and the great outdoors post Sunday afternoon. The WTA has the above video, which we find strangely fascinating. Too bad strawberries and cream isn’t a more popular snack in the States! Just the right balance of good- and bad-for-you, right?
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Wimbledon stylings, for you: Esquire has churned out a clever how-to for us regular folks on wearing Wimbledon whites. Our favorite parts of their six-step process? “Hats, not headbands. Never headbands” and “Lose the socks. Those should never be white. Unless you’re actually winning Wimbledon.”
Lego Andy: This may be one of our favorite finds of The Championships. It’s Lego Andy (Murray) who greeted fans in the queue in the early goings of the tournament. The three-foot model was built by England’s only certified professional, Duncan Titmarsh, (didn’t know there was such a thing) and was completed with 13,000 Lego pieces over six days. Oh, and that’s Fred Perry that Lego Andy is wearing, not adidas. Guess he’s a little nostalgic, no?
Gift for (hearing) grunts? Seriously. If you haven’t tried this brilliant Slate.com test on matches the players to audios of them grunting, you must! TSF East was a nine of ten. Can you match such a score? Beat it?! Click on the image above to play.
(Lego Andy image by the Kingston Guardian; screen grab via Slate.com)
Matt says
10 out of 10! And i wasn’t even alive when Connors was playing.. Haha! =) Sign of true tennis nerd-dom..
TheHumbleOne says
“You guessed 10 of 10 grunts correctly.
On average, Slate readers guessed 5.1 correctly.”
Yeah, baby…! Read ’em & Weep!
Eunice says
Cute lego. DJOKOVIC will be wearing white socks!
http://girlrookie.com/2011/06/29/roger-federer/