Gillette, the best a man can get?
From left : Tennis extraordinaire , Roger Federer .
Thierry Henry .
World number one golf player , Tiger Woods .
This weekend it notched up more victims . Yes , one by one , the quartet of global sports stars who have eschewed facial hair to vaunt the merits of a close shave have , pardon the pun , been cut down by ... the curse of Gillette .
First Thierry Henry , one of Gillette's current trio of top-notch ambassadors ( along with Tiger Woods and Roger Federer ) , goes and does that handball .
Then Woods , the golden boy of golf and all-round sporting god , makes headline news after crashing his car following an argument with his wife . Not only that , but Woods's crash was quickly followed by a shock defeat for Federer , the world's best tennis player , who was knocked out of the ATP World Tour semi-final by sixth-seeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko .
On the scale of sporting defeats , it's hardly Armageddon , but any of Federer's defeat are indeed noteworthy .
Tiger Woods' Case
Woods managed to land himself in hospital on Friday after crashing his car . Not far behind was his wife , Elin Nordegren , complete with handy golf club . According to the gossip website TMZ , the pair had rowed , before he took off , about reports that Woods was seeing another woman . Within seconds, he had crashed his SUV first into a fire hydrant and then into a tree , while pulling out of the driveway of their house in Windermere , near Orlando , Florida .
The accident left Woods semi-conscious with lacerations to his lips . His wife told officers she had smashed one of the car's rear windows with the club . Woods may have escaped major injury – he was discharged yesterday – but he has some explaining to do .
Police called to interview him on Friday night , and were told to come back yesterday . While they were on their way last night , they were told the couple were unavailable and to come back tomorrow . One officer said :
" There's a lot of rumours and scenarios that are being thrown out there about all kinds
of different things that may have happened , but right now the only evidence that we have is
that this is just a traffic crash . "
Friday's accident is the latest upset for Woods since he signed up for the £20m campaign with Gillette last year beside the French striker and Swiss tennis player . Barely three months after becoming the face of Gillette , Woods endured a double whammy .
First knee surgery laid him up for much of last year , and then , earlier this month , he disgraced himself in Melbourne at the Australian Masters . He might have won the title , but lost his cool after a poor tee shot , then he slammed his club down into the turf only for it to bounce up into the gallery .
Thierry Henry's case .
Henry has hardly fared better . Even before costing the Irish their place in next year's World Cup Finals in South Africa with his " hand Gaul " shocker , the Barcelona star had found himself touched by the curse : his form has suffered since moving to Spain , while France has been pretty lame since being knocked out of Euro 2008 in the first round .
Roger Federer's case
As for Federer , he might have aced it on both the tennis and family scene in 2009 before yesterday's shock result , becoming a father of twins and the world's greatest tennis player . But perhaps he'd like to think again about that Gillette deal after the Davydenko defeat .
As one blogger writes : " Maybe it's a problem of hubris . Endorsing a product by yourself [ Federer endorses Rolex ] is one thing . But promoting yourself as a member of some exclusive fraternity of awesomeness ... well , that's another .
Gillette declined when asked to comment last night.
After witnessing numerous defeats and flaws of these sports greats , the question however still remains ..
P/s : I will post the pictures of my holiday at Port Dickson the next time . I just came back and I'm really tired ..
- Jaden -
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