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> <channel><title>Comments on: TAKING A BREAK WITH CURSED ROGER FEDERER</title> <atom:link href="http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/</link> <description>Tennis blog. Tennis news. Tennis gossip.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:22:12 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>By: Dolores</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12070</link> <dc:creator>Dolores</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:15:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12070</guid> <description>Hi ff!  Thanks for your reply, appreciated.  Yes, a new photo with the twins would be welcomed by all Fed fans.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi ff!  Thanks for your reply, appreciated.  Yes, a new photo with the twins would be welcomed by all Fed fans.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: freakyfrites</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12066</link> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12066</guid> <description>Hi Dolores!
No, the photo is a few years old. From a Men&#039;s Vogue shoot. Hope Rog and Mirka sit for another shoot soon! And maybe with the twins!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dolores!</p><p>No, the photo is a few years old. From a Men&#8217;s Vogue shoot. Hope Rog and Mirka sit for another shoot soon! And maybe with the twins!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Dolores</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12055</link> <dc:creator>Dolores</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:24 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12055</guid> <description>Love the photo of Roger and Mirka, is this a recent one?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love the photo of Roger and Mirka, is this a recent one?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: judy</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12019</link> <dc:creator>judy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:05:59 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12019</guid> <description>hmmm… how can i incorporate tennis into my holiday decor?! getting a small tree so tennis ball ornaments would probably not be structurally sound. ;) who am i kidding? i&#039;ll still be doing tennis things- playing and watching video clips from rog&#039;s amazing year when i miss him. ;) best vids are probably atp 15 fed tribute and rick reilly letter to fed&#039;s child (before twins). i think someone needs to put aussie &#039;05 semi of fed v safin on dvd, then i&#039;ll have something tasty to watch during the break!
agreed on non-cheating pts. haircare made me laugh! i wonder if she loves the logo or gets sick of it, like, &#039;i know who you are, you don&#039;t need the RF on your pjs too.&#039; come to think of it, has anyone ever asked rog, &#039;boxers or briefs?&#039; ha! he&#039;s with mirka always. when he&#039;s not with her, he&#039;s with severin, tony, pierre or gary! sometimes with nadal and running the player&#039;s council. come to think of it, add in tennis practice and sponsor obligations, it&#039;s amazing rog has time to say hi to his fans once in a while! we are truly blessed. i really admire that he&#039;s such a wonderful human being. :) sure he comes first, but that&#039;s how you get to be GOAT. mirka must be amazing to be supportive for all these years! for that reason alone, he would never cheat.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hmmm… how can i incorporate tennis into my holiday decor?! getting a small tree so tennis ball ornaments would probably not be structurally sound. <img
src='http://gototennis.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> who am i kidding? i&#8217;ll still be doing tennis things- playing and watching video clips from rog&#8217;s amazing year when i miss him. <img
src='http://gototennis.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> best vids are probably atp 15 fed tribute and rick reilly letter to fed&#8217;s child (before twins). i think someone needs to put aussie &#8217;05 semi of fed v safin on dvd, then i&#8217;ll have something tasty to watch during the break!</p><p>agreed on non-cheating pts. haircare made me laugh! i wonder if she loves the logo or gets sick of it, like, &#8216;i know who you are, you don&#8217;t need the RF on your pjs too.&#8217; come to think of it, has anyone ever asked rog, &#8216;boxers or briefs?&#8217; ha! he&#8217;s with mirka always. when he&#8217;s not with her, he&#8217;s with severin, tony, pierre or gary! sometimes with nadal and running the player&#8217;s council. come to think of it, add in tennis practice and sponsor obligations, it&#8217;s amazing rog has time to say hi to his fans once in a while! we are truly blessed. i really admire that he&#8217;s such a wonderful human being. <img
src='http://gototennis.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> sure he comes first, but that&#8217;s how you get to be GOAT. mirka must be amazing to be supportive for all these years! for that reason alone, he would never cheat.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: freakyfrites</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12010</link> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:02:40 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12010</guid> <description>&quot;non-tennis things&quot;? What do you mean? I&#039;m assuming everyone is decorating their Christmas trees with Penns and using their vacation to watch last year&#039;s Wimbledon final. . .
I agree with you that Fed isn&#039;t the cheating kind - 1. Mirka is his &quot;high school sweetheart&quot; - if he&#039;d actually finished high school. At least half the time, these types of relationships are pure, enduring love-matches. Have at least 4 personal examples in my friends and family. 2. They&#039;ve never spent one evening apart - when would Roger find the time to cheat? 3. Roger&#039;s probably similar to Andy Murray in that PlayStation is his biggest vice (along with haircare and eating at fancy restaurants). Roger&#039;s never struck me as the Safin/Stepanek breed of ladies&#039; man.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;non-tennis things&#8221;? What do you mean? I&#8217;m assuming everyone is decorating their Christmas trees with Penns and using their vacation to watch last year&#8217;s Wimbledon final. . .</p><p>I agree with you that Fed isn&#8217;t the cheating kind &#8211; 1. Mirka is his &#8220;high school sweetheart&#8221; &#8211; if he&#8217;d actually finished high school. At least half the time, these types of relationships are pure, enduring love-matches. Have at least 4 personal examples in my friends and family. 2. They&#8217;ve never spent one evening apart &#8211; when would Roger find the time to cheat? 3. Roger&#8217;s probably similar to Andy Murray in that PlayStation is his biggest vice (along with haircare and eating at fancy restaurants). Roger&#8217;s never struck me as the Safin/Stepanek breed of ladies&#8217; man.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: freakyfrites</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12009</link> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:57:21 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12009</guid> <description>Yeah, superstar athletes and Hollywood types should leave matrimony for those of us who don&#039;t get love letters, thongs and naked photos sent to us in the mail (at least not by the bagfuls!) - they&#039;re just setting themselves up to fail.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, superstar athletes and Hollywood types should leave matrimony for those of us who don&#8217;t get love letters, thongs and naked photos sent to us in the mail (at least not by the bagfuls!) &#8211; they&#8217;re just setting themselves up to fail.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: freakyfrites</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12008</link> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:54:26 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12008</guid> <description>HA!!! You made me laugh, Laura!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HA!!! You made me laugh, Laura!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: freakyfrites</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12007</link> <dc:creator>freakyfrites</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:52:34 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12007</guid> <description>&quot;uxorious&quot; - I like that word! You get the vocab props of the day, lk28!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;uxorious&#8221; &#8211; I like that word! You get the vocab props of the day, lk28!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: nikdom</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12002</link> <dc:creator>nikdom</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:35:38 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12002</guid> <description>Interesting article thre from The Times. I wonder if Mirka also did not have an induced labor or planned c-section or whatever cos it was so well timed between Wimbledon and the USO. Roger even got to show up in Toronto with the weeks old babies in tow.
Sure, Roger has the money to afford nannies and get the best medical attention, but I would think that taking 2 week old babies on a cross-atlantic trip is still risky (they could catch a virus or something). In that way, I think Roger&#039;s career is still the controlling factor for everything.
Can&#039;t find much fault with Roger, but I&#039;m pretty sure he&#039;s got to have a pretty strong ego (if not large) to be who he is. I wish him and Mirka have a long a fruitful marriage.
One last thing. Superstar athletes should not get married if they really want to play the field - just like Derek Jeter. Its better than to cheat on your partner.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting article thre from The Times. I wonder if Mirka also did not have an induced labor or planned c-section or whatever cos it was so well timed between Wimbledon and the USO. Roger even got to show up in Toronto with the weeks old babies in tow.</p><p>Sure, Roger has the money to afford nannies and get the best medical attention, but I would think that taking 2 week old babies on a cross-atlantic trip is still risky (they could catch a virus or something). In that way, I think Roger&#8217;s career is still the controlling factor for everything.</p><p>Can&#8217;t find much fault with Roger, but I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s got to have a pretty strong ego (if not large) to be who he is. I wish him and Mirka have a long a fruitful marriage.</p><p>One last thing. Superstar athletes should not get married if they really want to play the field &#8211; just like Derek Jeter. Its better than to cheat on your partner.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Laura</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12001</link> <dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:46:31 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12001</guid> <description>Always happy to be of help!
Roger doesn&#039;t seem to be the type to be unfaithful, but this article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article6939944.ece raises some interesting points about the mindset/egos that top athletes must have to succeed. Interestingly Rog is mentioned as the one example of happy long-lasting relationship.
I guess Rafa seems to be of the same stock, having been with Xisca for years and at such a young age, but he&#039;s still very young.
Also, is it a coincidence that they&#039;ve both fallen for attractive ladies but not supermodel types? And ladies with evident brains as well as looks?
Btw, it seems Murray is back on the shelf after losing the one nice thing about him (oops, not kind of me).
Anyway, got to dash, all this infidelity malarkey reminds me it&#039;s time to snoop in the husband&#039;s mobile - ONLY JOKING!! ;-)
Vamos Espana in DC!!!
Laura</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Always happy to be of help!</p><p>Roger doesn&#8217;t seem to be the type to be unfaithful, but this article <a
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article6939944.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/golf/article6939944.ece</a> raises some interesting points about the mindset/egos that top athletes must have to succeed. Interestingly Rog is mentioned as the one example of happy long-lasting relationship.</p><p>I guess Rafa seems to be of the same stock, having been with Xisca for years and at such a young age, but he&#8217;s still very young.</p><p>Also, is it a coincidence that they&#8217;ve both fallen for attractive ladies but not supermodel types? And ladies with evident brains as well as looks?</p><p>Btw, it seems Murray is back on the shelf after losing the one nice thing about him (oops, not kind of me).</p><p>Anyway, got to dash, all this infidelity malarkey reminds me it&#8217;s time to snoop in the husband&#8217;s mobile &#8211; ONLY JOKING!! <img
src='http://gototennis.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /></p><p>Vamos Espana in DC!!!<br
/> Laura</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Kristin</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-12000</link> <dc:creator>Kristin</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:18:07 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-12000</guid> <description>I miss Marat!  I miss him so much!  There should be a support group for Safin Withdrawal Syndrome...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I miss Marat!  I miss him so much!  There should be a support group for Safin Withdrawal Syndrome&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: judy</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-11999</link> <dc:creator>judy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-11999</guid> <description>i love stubble roger too!
http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/roger-federer/roger-federer-20060611-136390.jpg
when does that contract run out?! they just don&#039;t know how to treat a champion in their commercials. take notes from rolex please!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i love stubble roger too!<br
/> <a
href="http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/roger-federer/roger-federer-20060611-136390.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/roger-federer/roger-federer-20060611-136390.jpg</a></p><p>when does that contract run out?! they just don&#8217;t know how to treat a champion in their commercials. take notes from rolex please!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: judy</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-11998</link> <dc:creator>judy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:46:44 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-11998</guid> <description>i will miss rog, but i&#039;ll be happy to get back to non-tennis things around here for a while. of course i&#039;ll still be on GTT, can&#039;t resist! it&#039;s good to know rog is aware that he needs to make adjustments and improve before the next season. the competition is getting younger and stronger out there, he needs to kick it up. hope he and the gals enjoy their vaca. nothing like sand, sun and ocean to recharge.
mirka could absolutely free rog from a car with a tennis racquet, although fed would never cheat on her in a million years! he&#039;s one of the world&#039;s most successful athletes, GOAT, rich, handsome, charming, friendly, speaks multiple languages, and yet he&#039;s been faithful and loyal for all these years. i&#039;m sure women have thrown themselves at him (i might, ha!) and instead he hasn&#039;t missed a night with his wife for many years. he would never, esp now with the twins. plus mirka is the boss and would absolutely kick his ass! ;) i love that they are such a wonderful example of friendship, love, support and trust.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i will miss rog, but i&#8217;ll be happy to get back to non-tennis things around here for a while. of course i&#8217;ll still be on GTT, can&#8217;t resist! it&#8217;s good to know rog is aware that he needs to make adjustments and improve before the next season. the competition is getting younger and stronger out there, he needs to kick it up. hope he and the gals enjoy their vaca. nothing like sand, sun and ocean to recharge.</p><p>mirka could absolutely free rog from a car with a tennis racquet, although fed would never cheat on her in a million years! he&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s most successful athletes, GOAT, rich, handsome, charming, friendly, speaks multiple languages, and yet he&#8217;s been faithful and loyal for all these years. i&#8217;m sure women have thrown themselves at him (i might, ha!) and instead he hasn&#8217;t missed a night with his wife for many years. he would never, esp now with the twins. plus mirka is the boss and would absolutely kick his ass! <img
src='http://gototennis.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> i love that they are such a wonderful example of friendship, love, support and trust.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Trip</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-11996</link> <dc:creator>Trip</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:28:15 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-11996</guid> <description>C&#039;mon ... Our Rog is too good to be involved in anything wrong.
Love that RogerMirka pic...!!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>C&#8217;mon &#8230; Our Rog is too good to be involved in anything wrong.<br
/> Love that RogerMirka pic&#8230;!!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Liz</title><link>http://gototennis.com/2009/12/02/taking-a-break-with-cursed-roger-federer/#comment-11994</link> <dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:03:11 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://gototennis.com/?p=14407#comment-11994</guid> <description>I knew Roger wouldn&#039;t get Sportsman of the Year.  They want people to buy the issue and baseball sells better than tennis.  It is still hard not to be disappointed, though!  He deserves it and his story is the most compelling and moving of the year.
I know our heroes can have feet of clay.  But if Roger ever is afflicted by the Gillette curse, I don&#039;t want to know.  I just can&#039;t imagine it for him.
Tiger Woods&#039;s business is his own, but it bothers me for the sake of his family.  His kids are small, but one day they will grow up and hear about all this garbage.  I can&#039;t picture Roger doing that to Mirka and Myla and Charlene.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I knew Roger wouldn&#8217;t get Sportsman of the Year.  They want people to buy the issue and baseball sells better than tennis.  It is still hard not to be disappointed, though!  He deserves it and his story is the most compelling and moving of the year.</p><p>I know our heroes can have feet of clay.  But if Roger ever is afflicted by the Gillette curse, I don&#8217;t want to know.  I just can&#8217;t imagine it for him.</p><p>Tiger Woods&#8217;s business is his own, but it bothers me for the sake of his family.  His kids are small, but one day they will grow up and hear about all this garbage.  I can&#8217;t picture Roger doing that to Mirka and Myla and Charlene.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
