As you said it : The year in review

Down Goes Rafa

“I felt like an animal. I wanted to see how it tastes. It tastes good.”( Novak Djokovic on taking a bite of the grass after winning Wimbledon.)

“It’s nothing important, I had that hundreds of times but not in the press conference. If that happened in the locker room, nobody knows nothing, and that’s normal thing.”

( Addressing reporters following a third-round win on a sticky day at the U.S. Open, Nadal suddenly began experiencing leg cramps)

“Is it more embarrassing running off the court like a maniac or throwing up on court and being on SportsCenter for the next 25 years? Yeah, running off the court is better, so that’s what I did.”

( During her match against Agnieszka Radwanska, Andrea Petkovic sprinted offcourt mid-match to vomit her guts out in the toilets.)

“If you ever see me walking down the hall, walk the other way, because you’re out of control. Totally out of control. You’re a hater, unattractive inside. Who would do such a thing?”

Verbal Volley from Serena

( Serena Williams abused chair umpire Eva Asderaki who enforced the hindrance rule early in the second set of this year’s US Open final)

“I don’t know how it happened, I read his serve and I was on the ball, and I had to hit it hard, and it got in, luckily for me.”

(After Djokovic saved two match points against Federer in the semis for the second straight year at the U.S. Open – and this time they were both on the Swiss’ serve.)

“This is very hard to understand how [you] can play a shot like that on match point. But look, maybe he’s been doing it for 20 years, so for him it was very normal.”

( Federer’s reply to Djokovic’s above quote,after losing out at the US Open Semis)

“At some stage, I was like, ‘What’s the score?’ It was hard to count. I was like, ‘Who is up? She or me?’”

( Kuznetsova after losing to Schiavone 6-4, 1-6, 16-14 in 4 hours, 44 minutes, the longest women’s encounter in Grand Slam history.)

“I don’t know if I am getting under Roger’s skin, but maybe I am . He’s entitled to say whatever he wants. I hope I get the chance to play against him this week and I can let the tennis do the talking.”

( Andy Murray wasn’t too impressed with Roger Federer’s attempt to play down his Asian run of winning three tournaments on the run)

Take that Federer

“Because we are not named Serena or Venus Williams doesn’t mean we don’t know how to play tennis.”

( Marion Bartoli after defeating Sarena Williams, she was offended by the fact that despite defeating Serena, the press didn’t credit her. )

“I finally feel like you guys can call me Aussie Kim because I won the title. Even when things weren’t going good, you guys were really supportive of me, and I really appreciate it.”

( Clijsters after winning her first Grand Slam outside US, fittingly the Aussie Open. She has always been a crowd favorite given her relationship with Aussie star L.Hewitt )

“Grand Slams, they win a lot of money, and they are just working for that, not us. They are calling us on court, and it’s still raining.”

( Nadal after he along with Murray and Roddick were forced to play in the wet weather at the Flushing Meadows )