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Getting over a Fan-crush

Ways to get over a fan-crush on someone (athlete, etc.)

  1. Time (heals all wounds? or something)
  2. Too much exposure/get sick of him or her. Maybe this happened with Rafael Nadal, though I never really fangirled him that hard.
  3. Start fangirling someone else. THIS happens all the time.
  4. Become too busy (aka have an actual life outside of following the sport/person)
  5. Have a dream where the person wonders why the hell you are fangirling him and you freeze up (in the dream)
  6. Actually meet the person and be disappointed. This has never happened to me so I can’t say anything

So my lovely crush on a certain Brazilian tennis player fell susceptible to reason #5 above. I still will probably check on his results as part of my overall fangirling of men’s college tennis, but now I am crush-less until the next phenom sneak-attacks me.

2011
04/05
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Current Crush – Henrique Cunha

I figured, since I’m being the anonymous fangirl here, I might as well try to spread anonymous love for some of my favorite people. Recently I have been into Henrique Cunha, a Brazilian tennis player who is currently a sophomore tennis player at Duke University.

I know, Duke University… I hate their athletics program, specifically their basketball program, so this is a rather unfortunate situation… What I end up doing is just hoping that Cunha wins and secretly gleeful when Duke still loses the match.

So the basics on Henrique Cunha. From the little info I could find on him via the Internet, he was a rather highly-ranked junior tennis player who got to hit with Roger Federer during the 2007 French Open. He is a lefty whose forehand, in my opinion at least, is the shot he uses to do the damage. His backhand seems pretty standard two-handed but not spectacular, his serve is okay, and he will come up to net but not that often. Last year he was the #1 ranked college tennis player for a while and he lost in the semis of the NCAA singles tournament to eventual champion Bradley Klahn. He teams up with Reid Carleton for a pretty solid doubles team. This year he has some losses to top guys like Steve Johnson and Alexandre Lacroix and a doubles loss to the Tennessee pair of Boris Conkic and JP Smith.

Of course, how I heard of Henrique Cunha was via the ITF National Team Indoor Championships that were played at the University of Washington back in February. The funny thing was I first saw him playing in the Duke vs. USC matchup and I was like, there is some dude out there playing left-handed. I skipped watching him against Lacroix because I wasn’t obsessed then. It was only when I saw Duke play for a third time when I was like, wait a second, I might like this guy…

Too little too late, with most things of course. Anyway I hope he does well once he returns to the pro circuit or maybe hope he is still around in 2013 when the National Team Indoors returns to Seattle and also hope Duke comes again…

Anyway, this blog is going to be a bit all over the place as I figure out what I actually want to put here, so the next update might be on anything, provided that I fangirl it.

Edit: OMG, so I just decided to visit the Duke men’s tennis website and they just put up a short video with Henrique Cunha. The timing of this is…wow. Anyway, click here to go to the Duke men’s tennis page.

2011
03/23
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