Marc Gicquel's Tennis Injury

No, reports of tennis elbow wouldn't make it to my blog.

French tennis player Marc Gicquel was balled in the nuts during his match against Benjamin Becker during the Gerry Webber Open in Halle. The ball in question was travelling at a speed of 208 km/h when it made contact with the Gicquel family jewels. I can only imagine the pain......

However, he managed over come the pain and to continue the match after receiving treatment and won it 6-2, 7-6(5).

Perhaps Tim Henman should take a fast ball to his nuts and that might improve his game. He can't be playing any worse than he is now.

Purely as an afterthought, I can't imagine that the tournament doctors get to fondle players' nuts in open court in more or less full view of the public (save for the silly towel which doesn't really hide anything) very often. Truly the dream job of many a gay man!