...see, at Wimbledon (and every Grand Slam tournament other than the U.S. Open) there's no tie-break rules for a fifth set once you get to 6-6, so the only way to win is to break the other opponent's serve and then serve out the match (i.e. win by two). So...a 16-14 fifth set in a championship final is pretty amazing.
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Here's a close-up of my Lincoln painting...I think this bit looks really nifty blown up like this (click on it to make it super big and abstract-y):
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Tennis is awesome when the scores are like football games. It's also awesome when Jennifer Capriati is playing... but God doesn't love us enough to allow that anymore.
The last I remember of Capriati, she won a similar crazy last set against Martina Hingis at the Aussie Open final several years ago. It was like 110 degrees, Hingis essentially wilted away.
Fun Fact: Hingis quit tennis after she failed a drug test for cocaine. Hooray!
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