Future Tennis Stars

If you don’t live in Canada, you don’t have to endure TSN showing an insipid special on Carling Bassett every freaking chance it gets. It is 4:30 on Friday, the match between Tommy Robredo and Mardy Fish just finished and you would think that the match with Serena Williams would be shown next. Not on TSN. Whatever half-wit was at the switch decided we needed yet another dose of Mrs. Bassett-Seguso for whatever reason. If you don’t know her, Bassett won two singles titles and two doubles titles. She reached the quarters a couple of times at the French, the semis at the US Open and was ranked in the top ten. She retired in 1992 and sadly that makes her Canada’s top player. Ever. I really like Aleksandra Wozniak, I want her to succeed and get into the top 10 in the world at some point in her career not only for her benefit but also for the fact that hopefully TSN will start showing a profile of her or at the very least, show some tennis matches when it should.

Seriously TSN, give it up. Bassett has little to no impact on today’s game, she isn’t a commentator on any network that I can see, even when the Rogers Cup is on TSN hires Tracey Austin to commentate. I don’t know of any pro that has her as a coach. Whatever the appeal is, it’s lost on me.