Out in Sports: June 2007 Archives

Any photos of Andy Roddick seem to be very popular with readers...so here are a few more!



Tommy Haas in action...the German stud was again a winner...

Roger Federer won his 51st consecutive match on grass...and looked quite dapper in doing so...

Hunky Russian Marat Safin has beaten Federer on big occasions in the past...but Friday at Wimbledon was not one of them...

Also losing was fifth seed Fernando Gonzalez who was kind enough to give us a peak at his abs before leaving the tournament...

Andy Roddick won hos second match at Wimbledon Tuesday...only five more wins to go and the title is his! He's diving for every shot and playing with a lot of heart. And, he looks gorgeous doing all of it...
GO ANDY!!!

Marat Safin makes me swoon. He is such a tall drink of water. If he could just get his head together, he can beat anyone in the world.

Forner Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt may have slipped out of the top 10, but he's still a gritty fighter and a hottie. Reminds me of Heath Ledger a bit. They're both Aussies, after all.

Novak Djokovic is my favorite young player with a real chance to become a top champion. At 19, he can still do thge splits without incident.

Rafael Nadal won his first-round match and trying to match his 2006 march to the final. He looks so good in white.

Tim Henman is the sentimental favorite and Britian's best hope. His best years are behind him but he wants to go far in this tournament. He's a gentleman and a cutie and I wish him well.And finally, even though Carlos Moya (below) lost his first round match to Henman in a heartbreaker (13-11 in the fifth!), it just doesn't seem right not to include such a beautiful man in our little gallery here.

Ah, Wimbledon. I love Wimbledon. Of the three grand slam tournaments I've been to, my week spent watching matches played on the grass courts of the All England Club ranks at the top of my tennis memories - and my life memories. But enough about me!
Andy Roddick sure looks cute even when he slips and falls as he did earlier today in his first-round match. But the fourth-seeded American, my pick to win, managed to pick himself up, dust himself off, and go on to win the match in straight sets. Also back in action and looking so comfortable and elegant on the grass was four-time defending champion Roger Federer who Roddick will likely have to take out in the semifinals if my out-on-a-limb prediction is to come true. Federer easily advanced to the second round at the tournament where he has not lost a match since 2002...

OK, if you look in the upper left corner of this picture, you will see French Open champion Rafael Nadal! He watched David Beckham and Real Madrid triumph over Mallorca in the last Spanish league football match of the season. Nadal is stil a resident of Mallorca where he grew up. Oh yeah, there are a few other people in this picture: Tom Cruise and a newly-shorn Katie Holmes (I like to new haircut!) and then there is that scary Mrs. Beckman. I wanna know if Posh Spice owns a mirror because if she does, why does she leave th house looking like a scarecrow. Her hubby, however, looks splendid.
Meow.

Pierce Brosnan is a lucky guy. Front row seats to the Queen's Club tournament in London Thursday where he got to watch the likes of such tennis guy candy as Andy Roddick, Rafael Nadal, Fernando Gonzalez (all winners) and Robbie Ginepri who lost to Gonzalez.
Tennis is SUCH a sexy sport...

Nadal is an animal on any surface. The King of clay knows how to play on grass...

Fernando Gonzalez at full stretch...

So nice of Roddick to give us a peek at his tummy...

Poor Robby Ginepri...another loss. But he still looks so good despite his poor reesults...

J.P. Calderon has become famous for his reality show involvement which including being on "Survivor" a few seasons back then on "The Janice Dickerson Modeling Agency" on which he came out as a gay man.
But less is known about his life as a volleyball player and now coach in Long Beach. I was very interested in an article posted recently on the OuitSports.com site on this topic.

Here are a few excerpts:
On Gay Games VIII in 2010: “Sure, without a doubt I’ll compete, though I don’t know how good I’ll be at that time.”
On the kids he coaches: “The kids who I coach are wonderful. I’ve gotten closer to them (since coming out), and that’s something I was scared about (when I was coming out.)”
Could you have been out while playing in college?: “I don’t think so. At that time, I don’t think people were as accepting; people were a little more ignorant, un-educated. But times have really changed. If I was in college now, I would be able to be out, but not back then. Being out is now becoming not a big deal.”
To read the entire piece, click over to OutSports.com.

Rafael Nadal turned 21 just last week and on Sunday, he won his third straight French Open title. And for the third year in a row, he beat the world's top player, Roger Federer, at tennis' premiere clay court tournament. I was rooting for Federer to win the one major title that eludes him but there is no denying the greatness of Nadal on this surface. He simply was the better player. More tennis news on my other blog...Deuce!


Nadal was a gracious winner: I am very happy, but I am really sad for Roger. He is a friend and I know he is a great champion, whether he wins or loses."

MORE PICS OF NADAL & CO IN PARIS BELOW...

It seems like every opponent who loses to Rafael Nadal at the French Open gives his rock-hard abs a little pat. Who can blame them? Here, Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who Nadal beat in today's semifinals, takes his turn. The bicep bulging Nadal, of Spain, made it to his third consecutive final in Paris where he has NEVER lost. He will face the number one tennis player in the world on Sunday: Roger Federer. I will be blogging about the final weekend on my Deuce! blog so be sure to check that out.
And do continue "reading" the rest of this post...you will like what you are "reading..."

Earlier post:
- When Antonio met Rafael...

Sebastien Gacond has just found a way to have his photo plastered on gay blogs and other websites all over.
The above picture, which I found posted on Queerty.com, of the Swiss triathlete was posted on the sportcentric Outsports.com and he was not pleased. He wrote a note to the site which read: "I’ve just found a picture of me and my name mentioned on your website. I ask you to remove my name and this picture straight away from this website."
Outsports asked Gacond if he objected to the site’s gay slant and he said this: "Yes I would like to remove it because it’s a gay website. I’ve got absolutely nothing against gay people and the gay community but I don’t want my name and image to be link there as I’m not gay … I’ve got a girlfriend! Thank you for your understanding."
According to Outsports, this is the first athlete in six years to request that his image be removed.
The photo, taken at a public event, remains. And now it's on Queerty, and Out In Hollywood, and on and on. Gee, just imagine if tennis stars Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer or Andy Roddick decided to cause a stink because of all the pictures of them on this site and my Deuce! blog?
Sheesh Gacond, don't you know how to take a compliment?

I've been trying to keep my tennis-related news to my Deuce! blog but when there are pics of so many yummy tennis players online in a single day, what is a dedicated gay blogger to do? Post 'em! Herre are hunky Amkericans Andy Roddick and Robby Ginepri who, after bombing out in the first round of the French Open last week, have gone over to England to play some grass tournaments in preparation for Wimbledon.

Did any of you watch the French Open coverage this weekend?? I saw some terrific matches and you can read all about results and my take on the tournament in my other blog DEUCE! But just for Out In Hollywood readers, I've put together some pictures from the tournament taken on Monday of some of the remaining players in the men's draw...hot stuff! We begin, of course, with two-time defending champion Rafael Nadal who beat former number one Lleyton Hewitt and is on his way to a possible rematch with top-seed Roger Federer.

Carlos Moya (above) is the oldest man left in the tournament at the age of 30. He beat Jonas Bjorkman and will face Nadal in the quarterfinals. Moya knows how to win the French Open: he did so in 1998 and remains a strong contender. Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic of Serbia is showing that he is the real deal as he makes the quarterfinals for the second year running. Just 19, Novak is already ranked in the top five and beat Nadal on his way to winning the big Sony Erriccson tournament in Miami back in March. Djokovic , more than any other player, is the one who I think is the biggest threat to the Federer-Nadal dominance of recent years. He's got the game and the attitude to be a major champion.
And finally, there is Russian Igor Andreev who beat Marcos Baghdatis with a 2-6 6-1 6-3 6-4 win to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the first time. Andreev is the man who beat American Andy Roddick in the first round and even though he is not seeded, he has shown he is not a one-win wonder.
Lots more pics below!