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LIAR FEATURES:
Giving Venus a
damned good licking...
Australian tennis coach to the
stars
Rosie Koonunga-Hill reports from
Wimbledon 2004
I’ve just flown in
from the Centre Court to give you the benefit of my forehand volley, and
to share a little sleazy gossip from the glossy, semi-pornographic world
of professional tennis. This year, I’ve already been licked on grass by
Venus Williams and licked on clay by Anna Kournikova - and I can
honestly say I never “felt Serena”.
Of course, it’s not like the old days. Yvonne Goolagong, Billie Jean
King, Virginia Wade. They’ve all retired and had sex changes… and I’m
sure they’ll be a bloody site happier now that they’re women.
Up at the David
Lloyd Tennis Centre for the Physically Challenged on the North
Circular Road, I’ve worked on Tony Blair’s topspin, Alan Tichmarsh’s
topsoil and on Charlie Dimmock’s top bollocks. I coached Hugh Grant for
a while. He wasn’t half bad, but he always had a low toss and a lazy
lob. For a while there I coached Jade from Big Brother (remember her?).
She had a decent backhand, a strong serve and she could hold three
tennis balls in her mouth, all at the same time. Plus, a tennis racket,
the umpire’s chair, and a 1997 Range Rover.

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Being a female Aussie tennis player, people continually ask me
three questions. Have you done the Grand Slam? Have you fucked
Tim Henman, and do ya take it up the arse? I’ll answer them in
reverse order: Yes, but only when I’m pissed. Yes, but only
because he drugged me, and yes I have done the Grand Slam.
Although it wasn't quite as grand in those days. In fact some
would say it wasn't particularly fucking grand at all!
I've played at Wimbledon many times. I played in midfield
alongside Vinny Jones. Only kidding. I played on the right wing.
At the
moment I’m going out with one of this year’s Wimbledon
semi-finalists Lleyton Hewitt. That’s Heww-itt! The only player
on the circuit whose surname sounds like someone throwing up in
a toilet. Before that I was shagging Wayne Ferreira. I dumped
him when he started making those fucking chocolates.
My latest
client for tennis coaching is the MP David Blunkett. He’s very
easy to motivate. Every time he serves, I tell him it was
an ace.
Delighted to hear that wheelchair tennis is finally taking off.
Christopher Reeve can now return serve using nothing but his
eyelids…. and Stephen Hawking is coming on very well indeed.
He’s not so good at reaching overheads, but he’s great at
sniffing out a black hole. Which brings us right back to Venus
Williams.
Now, if
you’ll excuse me, I have to go and play mixed doubles with
Richard & Judy. Judy’s very fond of mixed doubles. She likes a
double whisky mixed with a double gin. G’day!
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