Game, Ms. Noelle: my musings on pro tennis

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Go Fish

A friend of mine sent me this picture, but I have absolutely no idea why Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils are dressed that way:

Gasquet and Monfils (credit: unknown)Any ideas? Comment away!

(yes, I know it was a photo op.)

UPDATE: Thank you to Loreley, Ellen, Rob, and Manu for the replies. Loreley also provided us with a link to her blog, which has more fabulous pics from Doha.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeh, they are dressed like Fishermen. It's the tradional dress for them. I have the pic on my site as well ;)

http://loreley.twoday.net/20060106/

8:51 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

aw i love that pic!! richard looks so comfortable and normal in it and that's what makes it so funny.

it's from doha, you know how sometimes they do little photo shoots in the countries' traditional dress....

woot for DC!! go france, australia and USA!!

6:55 PM 
Blogger Rob said...

Yeah, that flag behind them is Qatar's national flag. :)

(OT) Too bad Martina lost to Dementieva. But I saw her whole match against Sharapova, she really has improved - a lot! She even gave Maria a hard time returning her serves. Too bad though, because the hard serving might have taken their toll on her in the finals with Dementieva. She made a lot of service errors, people reckoned. :)

11:23 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow ! I was looking for this pic, now I know how to get it !

Of course, this pic was "taken" in Doha, where these youngsters were expected. Only Monfils proved to be in shape. But this week end, Gasquet replied !

Let's go France ! Davis Cup winner in 1991, 1996, 2001 and let's hope 2006 !

2:49 AM 
Blogger Noelle De Guzman said...

Thanks Anonymous, Ellen, Rob, and Manu for your informative replies! :) My friend just sent me the pic and refused to divulge any details about it.

3:10 PM 

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