The End of a Hot and Sexy Era

Yesterday was a sad day in the world of sports.  One of the best looking male athletes of my generation has retired, leaving his sport EVEN less interesting to watch... Tennis.  Now I consider myself quite the "sports enthusiast", but I can't lie and tell you it's hard for me to tear away from the TV when Tennis is on.  As a woman, seeing a man dripping with ungodly amounts of sweat, while knocking a neon ball back and forth over a net is not very sexy.  I mean, at least in baseball they wear tight pants, football they hit each other making you feel like they are "real men", and basketball and soccer involves so much running back and forth they usually at least have super hot bodies... But tennis, eh.  However, about 12 years ago a young hot-headed, hot-bodied, piece of eye candy came onto the scene, and finally made women want to stop and stare, that man was Andy Roddick.  Now some of you women may have no clue who he is, so to easier understand who I am referring to, Brooklyn Decker's husband.  I can see the proverbial light bulbs going on now.  Yes that stud who was always dressed nice in his Lacoste, and would sweat so much, you waited for him to wipe his brow with his shirt in hopes of catching a glimpse of his abs, he is no longer playing competitive tennis.  So what does all this mean you ask:

                                                              You are welcome ladies.

For Tennis: Probably the last decade's most well known AMERICAN face of the sport is retiring. 

For Women: The most attractive face EVER in the sport is retiring.

For Tennis: The once fastest serve ever recorded (155 mph) was hit by Andy, later superseded by some tall Croatian guy (Ivo Karlović)

For Women: There will no longer be cameos made by Brooklyn Decker and her super model friends in the crowd. 

For Tennis:  Some of the referees will be grateful there won't be as many insults thrown their way for bad calls.

For Women:  There won't be as many insults thrown at the referees in an effort to make tennis more interesting to watch.

                                    Tennis will never have this kind of talent in the crowd again.

So, if you are like me, and you barely tolerated tennis, unless you were watching this hunk grunt and sweat all over the court (whilst imagining him sweating and grunting elsewhere), then yesterday was a VERY sad day for you too.  The good news, I can't imagine Andy will be COMPLETELY out of the spotlight any time soon, especially while he keeps that hot little wifey of his on his arm, but the world of tennis is going to have to find a new bad boy, hot piece of ass if they have any hopes of retaining the 18-34 year old women demographic.  Until then, should our husbands/boyfriends/girlfriends decide we NEED to watch tennis, we will probably get stuck watching this ugly mug...

So thank You Andy Roddick, for making 12 years of tennis, a little more bearable.