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sportsbybrooks.com - 4/2/2008
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Spencer Hall of the SPORTING BLOG finds a tennis player who really needs to work on his overhead smash .
The bloodied mess above is Mikhail Youzhny , who’s enraged intensity was on display at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. During his match against Spain’s Nicolas Almagro, the Russian became upset after giving up a point, and tried to beat some sense into himself - with his ...
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It’s Angry…It’s Bloody…It’s…..Tennis????
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... Mikhail Youzhny lost a point after a long volley and became so angry he struck himself in the head with his own racket three times. A stream of blood rushed down his forehead and the match had to be temporarily stopped while trainers patched up the wound. If things like this happened in tennis every week maybe…. just maybe….I would consider not making fun of it so often.
[Shout out to SportsByBrooks for the photo]
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