Spencer Hall of the SPORTING BLOG finds a tennis player who really needs to work on his overhead smash.
The bloodied mess above is Mikhail Youzhny, who’s enraged intensity was on display at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. During his match against Spain’s Nicolas Almagro, the Russian became upset after giving up a point, and tried to beat some sense into himself - with his own racket.
(Video after the jump.)
Somehow, the forehead flogging must have worked, as Youzhny came back to defeat Almagro in what THINK SPAIN called an “epic, though slightly disturbing, third round three-set classic.”
Imagine if Mikhail had lost. No doubt he would have set up an automatic ball machine to fire shots repeatedly at his crotch, before hanging himself from the umpire’s chair.
7:55 pm on April 1st, 2008
He threw the bloody towel back at the kid. Nice. Certainly, a nice fellow like that has nothing to catch.
10:34 pm on April 2nd, 2008
Add him to the list of sports people who hurt themselves in wierd ways on the playing field. Bill Gramatica, Gus Frerotte, now this turkey.