A Celebration of Hot Tennis Part 1: A British Perspective

There’s a lull in the tennis tour, and it's time to catch our breath after two months of intense competition that raced across Europe from Rome to Madrid to Paris to London.

The hot clay of May gave way to the softer touch of grass, which in turn baked itself into a hard dust bowl of brown earth.

It’s been a scorching early summer, culminating in a hot, hot Wimbledon.

So now is a good opportunity to cool off before we launch into the blood, sweat and tears of the punishing North America Masters at Montreal and Cincinnati, and the last “big one” at Flushing Meadow.

So here, with the help of a few hot songs together with photos taken by yours truly—Clarabella—over the last two months, are some indulgent and sultry memories to tide us over to the next blistering tennis swing.

Credit: This slideshow was created with, and as a companion piece to, Claudia Celestial Girl's "A Celebration of Hot Tennis Part 2: An American Tale"
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/215276-a-celebration-of-hot-tennis-part-2-an-american-tale

Thanks, Claudia. It’s been fun!

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