Somehow, Tennis Players Attract Beautiful Ladies

Outspoken tennis pro Justin Gimelstob is writing every few days during the U.S. Open, where he competed in the men's singles, men's doubles and mixed-doubles competition. Click here to read all of Justin's entries.

Beauty pageants are a controversial topic. Some people think they degrade and exploit women. Some people view it as light entertainment.

I strongly support the latter opinion. Men always will enjoy looking at beautiful women, and the men on the ATP Tour are no different.

As I mentioned in my first blog entry, the players' lounge is full of beautiful girlfriends and wives.

So in the spirit of the players' lounge, I thought it would be fun to write a top 10 list to congratulate the boys and celebrate their beautiful significant others (at right, in alphabetical order).

I'm not going to name the ladies' names, because some of them rotate so often (that's sort of the point here).

But you readers are Internet-savvy, so Google away.

The second list is the ultimate compliment, and I hope everyone takes it the right way. I call it the "overachievers" list. These are the top 10 players (current and retired) who are involved with a beautiful woman even though there are some obvious physical discrepancies between them and their significant others.

I am a prime example of an overachiever -- and therefore I make this list. I consider myself reasonably attractive (minus the huge noggin and invisible calves), but my girlfriend is far superior in any of the superficial physical categories some people tend to get caught up in.

Players with the Hottest Wives or Girlfriends

Andy Roddick

James Blake

Francisco Clavet

Guillermo Coria

Tim Henman

Thomas Johansson

Mark Philippoussis

Olivier Rochus

Fabrice Santoro

Filippo Volandri

Rafael Nadal

Honorable mention: Marat Safin's guest box

Overachievers:

Devin Bowen

Lars Burgsmuller, Dominik Hrbaty, Daniel Nestor

Brad Gilbert, Karol Kucera, Radek Stepanek

Justin Gimelstob, Todd Martin, Daniel Vacek

Top 22 reasons to date a Tennis Player

1.We don’t like love- we’re playas

2.We’ve got lots of balls (guys): We play with balls (girls)

3.We do it with two or more people

4.We do it against the wall- and it’s faster and harder

5.We’ve got fast hands

6.We hit it hard

7.We have the endurance to last for three hours straight

8.We grunt when we hit it

9.We get low like nobody’s business

10.We can hit it from all angles

11.We know how to wrap our handle

12.We have fuzzy balls (guys)

13.We work out, nuff said

14.We use one hand or two… whatever it takes

15.We wear skirts specially made for balls – and spanky pants (girls)

16.We play it long and hard

17.We don’t mind getting hot and sweaty

18.We smack that- hard

19.We do it on more that one surface- we’ll take it rough but we like it smooth

20.We know how to stroke it

21.We know where the sweet spot is

22.We know when to tap it lightly, and when to slam the balls deep

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