Date Lost To Schiavone... 3rd Round, Toray Pan Pacific

Date lost to Schiavone yesterday, 3-6, 3-6... but never mind. She did her best and we're so proud of her performance in this tournament. What she achieved was great deal. She inspired us with her untiring efforts to overcome so many age-related difficulties. You should learn from this 40-year-old top athlete that there is sure a way out when you're having hardships just because you think you are too old to do something you want. She showed us with her super tennis "if there is a will there is a way.　Do not ever blame your age for something unreturned."

Thank you so much Date.

We're all PROUD OF YOU.

Please don't forget that you have us all the way.

All our love for Date! We want to see your tennis until the world ends.

Go! Go! Date! Our Hero!

Oh, my God... Date Krumm wins again... 3rd Round, Toray Pan Pacific

Oh, God... I'm trembling... I fear God...

Our Date Krumm wins again. She beats world's ranked 26th Hantuchová 2-6, 6-0, 4-0 (Hantuchová dropped out the match). Oh...my... I totally lost words when I heard the news... Oh, I pray for God... Please, please, please let us be with Date all the way to the end of the tournament.

Date, Happy happy birthday to you.

You're giving all of us a wonderful moment on your 40th birthday. Do you ever know that you're the most incredible athlete on this beautiful planet??? Do you t

hink that anyone could ever make it after an absence of 11 years? Oh, No... No... Even Martina could not ever make it, I swear! It's so obvious.

Date, you're amazing. We're sooooooooooo proud of you! Proud to be born as a Japanese and a tennis lover.

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Our Date Krumm Kimiko Beats Sharapova At Toray Pan Pacific!!!

Oh, my God... Oh, my God... What am I gonna do...???

Oh, my God...

Our Japanese No.1 tennis player Date Krumm beats Sharapova who's the defending champion and also the world's 15th ranked super tennis player. Oh, my God... The result was 7-5, 3-6, 6-3! Isn't it amazing????!!! Can you ever imagine this result? Can yo

u ever imagine this 39 year old, once retired tennis player, make it? Beat young dynamite Sharapova?

God! Date, I'm soooo proud of you. I'm soooo proud of you!!!

I go home and get some drink to celebrate the winning. Oh,

my God... You're really our inspiration. It's miracle! Date you made it, and we're sooo pround of you!!! You are our dearest darling! No doubt the Tennis Legend of Japan!

Go! Date! We know you can win the third round tomorrow!!!

Henin's Gonna Come Back, Farewells to Sugiyama, And Date Won!

Justine Henin will be back 2010!

I'm so happy about it. She is one of the greatest tennis athletes after Martina Navratilova. I felt really sad when she retired from tennis, because she's so gifted in tennis. I thought like, "Without tennis, what's gonna make her shinning?" Now she's back again. And I hope I can see Henin's beautiful back hand again and I just hope she would rock women's tennis world. Because I don't wanna see tennis trophy being grabbed away by Williams and Russians

any more..(＾-＾；)

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And Sad move here. I express my big appreciation what Ai Sugiyama contributed to Japan's tennis. She played tennis 17 years in the competitive tournaments in the world, won 3 Grad Slam women's doubles titles. Yes. Sugiyama is a former world No.1 in women's doubles, and currently ranked world no. 8 in doubles, she is considered to be one of the best doubles player in the WTA Tour. Not only doubles, she made a great achievements in singles too. In 1995, she won her first Grand Slam match and reached the 4th round of Roland Garros.

In 1996, she reached the 4th round at Wimbledon. She represented Japan at the Atlanta Olympics where she defeated Martina Hingis to reach the 3rd round. And sad to say, now she's announced her retirement from tennis circuits. SOOO SAD! We miss her.

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Another greatest Japanese tennis star Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan advanced to the Korea Open final by upsetting defending champion Maria Kirilenko of Russia 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 Saturday. She will play second-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, who defeated Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 2-6, 6-3, 6-1. Date said, “I had nothing to lose if I lose the match." Go! Date! Go! Go! Go! Without Sugiyama, Date is kind of our beacon who can

show real world's tennis to Japanese tennis freaks. She is gonna be 39 this month. Can you believe this? Such a veteran doing her best to live up her life, is, no matter what, sure to give us middle-aged some huge power. Let's go after her.

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I'd waited and waited Hana's come back after her retirement for years. But she never did. I know that's the way she wanted to live up her life. But I missed her like crazy. Still do now.

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Hana Mandlikova, ca.1980

Photo : unknown origin

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