Two Things You'll Never See on TV

1) Men's wheelchair tennis
2) Women's wheelchair tennis

And I'm not talking about just the networks and ESPN. There's an entire station dedicated to tennis called The Tennis Channel. You know how many times I've seen wheelchair tennis on it?

Zero.

If only we could get over the heartbreak of Roger Federer losing what would've been his 16th grand slam title, perhaps we could broaden our focus. And who was that nasty upstart who dared to defy television's tennis lord?

Oh yeah, this guy...



He massacred our boy!

After all, Juan Del Potro was the same fluke who mowed through #2 slam star, Raphael Nadal to get to the final. And why is he standing in the foreground like that celebrating while Roger is left lamenting the $50,000,000 he's made over the past six years?

At one point the announcer's perfection of humanity swore at the chair in a closeup. This was hardly discussed after CBS came back from commercial. Only Mary Carillo had the sand to openly discuss Federer's behavior.

Federer is given free range to speak French, English - whatever when he wins. Del Potro wanted to say a few things to his family in Spanish and CBS announcer Dick Enberg basically communicated:

Well hold on their Che fella. Can't have you speakin that code language around here, this is America.

So it's this simple: You get on board with what the TV corporations want you to like or you don't get on board at all.

Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands (above) won the wheelchair women's title, and Japanese player, Shingo Kunieda won the wheelchair men's championship. Who knew?