Video - Tennis Player Mikhail Youzhny Hits Himself

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 Video - Tennis Player Mikhail Youzhny Hits Himself
Incident during an ATP Masters tennis match between Mikhail Youzhny and Nicolas Almagro. Youzhny gets angry after at a close call and takes it out on himself...

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Mikhail Youzhny is Bloody Tennis Tantrum
Published 4/3/2008 by Amy at RightFielders Women in Sports
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Good Thing They Don't Do This In Baseball [I'm So Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!]
Published 4/3/2008 by Rick at Deadspin
(Ed. Note: This is old now, obviously, but Rick's been gone and we wouldn't dare deny him the opportunity to write about this.) OK, but seriously, who hasn't done this? In case you haven't seen the video yet, here's Mikhail Youzhny, upset with a shot in his match against Nicolas Almagaro at the Sony Ericcson Open in Key Biscayne, beating himself in the head repeatedly with his own racket. My favorite part is Almagaro coming over to check him out, sure that Youzhny is faking just to get a rest. Then it suddenly dawns on him, "Dude, you hit yourself in the head with your racket." By the way, ...

Crazy Takes Centre Court
Published 4/4/2008 by beans at TheOriginalWinger.com
John McEnroe has held the title of having the worst temper in tennis for a seriously long time now. But his title might be up for a challenge based upon one act of losing self control. Say hello to Mikhail Youzhny, the 25 year old from Russia that beat himself up (which by the way is actually much more difficult than it seems). Seems Mikhail was unhappy about a call and he decided to bash in his own head with his tennis racket. My absolute favorite part of this story though is his racket is made by racket maker Head! That gets my vote for “most ironic moment” of the year.

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