New Year, Same Old Epicness

After months having fun and relaxing on our awesome cloud, we decided it was time to bring this epic blog back! I'm sure everyone's as excited as we are, so here we go!

Maria Sharapova was one of our regulars in 2009, so she wanted to remind us of how epic she can be, starting the year with a bang just to make it to the blog! We are so proud of you, Maria! Even her amazing dress wasn't powerful enough to give her a win... But don't worry, because you're getting the 'Hoops and Yoyo Curtain FAIL Award'! The match was a typically short WTA match, indeed it was so short that we are disappointed it wasn't scheduled before Andy's match.


Another epic match from Monday was between Stepanek and Karlovic. Two really handsome men on court, we couldn't have asked for more! Obviously they deserve to be here in our blog and get the 'Hoops and Yoyo Ultimate Hot Match Award'! Just to be clear, we don't want to shock our readers with too much hotness, that's why we are not including any pics from this fantastic match!

There are a few players who deserve to be mentioned but weren't epic enough to win a prestigous H&Y award, like Gulbis, Moyá, Bobby Ginepri, Querrey, Ferrero and Chardy.

One of tuesday's epic results was Boredo's amazing loss to Giraldo in three easy sets. We are very impressed, because the only people who usually lose to Giraldo are brasilians. To make sure he got an award today, he lost in straight sets! Hoops and Yoyo are really really pleased to give him the amazing 'Hoops and Yoyo Brasilian Pride Award'! Congrats, Tommy boy!



Soderling knew he made it to our blog last year when he played Rafa, but back then he didn't win the award. He was so jealous he promised himself he'd be a good boy and try hard to win one in 2010. He didn't want to waste time so he took his first opportunity, losing to Granollers in five sets! That's what we call dedication! Therefore, Sod is getting the 'Hoops and Yoyo True Dedication Award'! We hope you appreciate it!

Andreev also wanted to be mentioned here... Since beating Fed would be too much to ask, he found a way to take a set off him and hope for an award. We heard he also had some set points to win the third set... Maybe he got too excited at the time thinking of how amazing it'd be to make it to the blog! Poor thing! But don't worry, you are getting the famous 'Hoops and Yoyo Epic Choke Award' (the first of 2010!).

We all know Young is such a great player, right? Anyway, while he was playing last night, a ballkid was so impressed with his tennis skills that apparently he was peeing on his pants. Only the greatest can make people have truly amazing reactions! That's why Young is getting the 'Hoops and Yoyo Too Good to Handle Award'!

Hoops and Yoyo were really impressed with the Youzhny/Gasquet match! Gasquet is a really good person, he wasted 2 match points in the fourth set and ended up losing the match in the fifth set just to make it to the blog. He was also jealous because Andy won this same award back in 2007 at Wimbledon (wasting a 2-0 lead). Who cares about winning a grand slam match when you can make it to the most amazing blog on the internet and even getting awards, right? Just because dear Paulo isn't around, we are giving Richard the 'Hoops and Yoyo Everyday Choker Award'!


That's it for today! We'll be back tomorrow with epic results, epic pictures, epic everything!