Win Tickets for Aircel Chennai Open 2016

Woohoo..

Chennai is back and with a bang!

Yup, Aircel Chennai Open  2016 is just around the corner and this time with mighty ones like Wawrinka, Benoit Paire and our own #Paes.  ACO 2016 will be the 21st edition of the only ATP tournament taking place in India and the 20th edition in Chennai.

We will be there, of course . If you a find bickering, cheering, selfie obsessed and of course loud mouthed duo - well, do go say hi -that would be us. And we expect you to be there joining us to cheer and catch glimpses of stars like Stan Wawrinka, Chennai-debutant Kevin Anderson, Benoit Paire, Roberto Bautista-Agut, Gilles Muller and #Borna Coric. 

Psst.. we are offering 2 free tickets as well for the 4th January 2016 match at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai.

Aircel Chennai Open Is Back !

There is Federer, there is Gasquet… And then there is single fisted back-hand… Woah! How did I even miss out on the only double Grand-slam Singles Champion that kick starts his ATP calendar with an Indian 250-point event? The Stanimal…  And yes, the McDowell (holding breath) Open circus which staged its first show in 1996 is all set to kick start Stanislas Wawrinka’s season yet again. Just remembering slightly hazily, it was also known as the Gold Flake Open and Tata Open before Aircel started sponsoring it and also later threatening pulling out of it. Whats with sports, smokes and liquor? Oh, ok its jus me…

It never ceases to amaze me how often the Chennai audience have tilted their loyalty over the years. It has always been on the player who, among the current draw, have visited the city most number of times. Ha, that’s an excellent way to follow a sport and pick a favorite player, isn’t it?

We miss ya, "Fuck you"!

Was watching this Champions Tennis League last week, new format that has been around for a coupla years through a coupla tournaments now. Was watching those senior players rally extremely strategically as against the present players that just seem to bludgeon the ball and beat the opponents, more by physical strength than by actual tennis nuance of placement of the ball and/or/ followed by a blinding winner makes me think that the game is going the cricket way. 

Indian Standard Time

What are your office timings? Mine is between 0900 and 1730. All of us here (in my office) are sure about when we can leave; everyone! Only a few of us know, the bunch of eternal absolute losers, when we are supposed to come in. Only we, the desolate few, know that we are supposed to start working at 0900; not wake up at 0900, not start from home at 0900, not park my car 0900 or catch up with a gush of fresh air at 0900 (read as: smoke)! We never seem to have this on-time concept,‘ somehow-around’ seems to be the order of the day.