Nando & Jo play the fastest (and hottest) tennis in the world
- October 13th, 2009
- Posted in general news . visual media
- By Lynsey
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Nando and fellow adidas player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga staged the world’s fastest tennis during a ride on Shanghai’s famous Maglev train, the fastest commercial train on the planet, at speeds of up to 431 km/h (that’s 268mph) The top ten stars attempted to play a mini-game of tennis during the train’s 18.6-mile, eight-minute journey from Longyang Road Train Station to Pudong International Airport.
For Tsonga, “It was a very special experience. I made a few more errors than normal, but at least I was not driving the train because if I made errors then we would all be dead. But it was great for us to do this activity. It is very different than playing tennis in a normal court.”
Nando meanwhile, said “It was a lot of fun, a good experience and you can really feel how fast it is. But I think nobody won. For me it was the first time to ride a train going over 400km/h. I enjoyed it, but I unfortunately I didn’t have much time to see the ride because in only eight minutes we were at the airport.”
Video and pictures under the cut :)
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LOL at how small the “court” is…they almost have to duck. It looks like they are giants.
Nando looks adorable in the interview: “It was almost the same like my car.” <3
I love the crazy ATP promos, esp. when they feature Nando:)
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Splice in a sentence by Jo
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Jills Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Hey, without Nando’s rambling, the vid would be 30 seconds long XD
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miri Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Hey, I like NandoRambles. It just cracks me up how they spliced a bit of Jo-Willy in there.
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LOL at the stuff they make these guys do. “Point at 325 km/h!” “Hold these model trains!” “Stand by the train!”
Pfff! :)
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Jills Reply:
October 14th, 2009 at 12:44 am
My favorite thing they made them do was the “OK now point at the sign above you that shows the train’s speed and smile” LOL
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I hate to say this, but I gotta…. they both need haircuts. ;)
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Jo can’t do math, why am I not surprised:)
Then again, neither can I.
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You really do an excellent job keeping up with all the news. Thanks for that!
Vamos Fernando Verdasco!!!!!
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