10 Funniest Moments in Wimbledon Tennis History – A Blogging Exercise
John McEnroe is one of the world’s greatest complainers and his eruptions are the stuff of legend. Earlier in the week we walked you through building WimbleTube.com – a video blog about Wimbledon Tennis. Today we list the Top 10 funnies from the All England Club, including of course, the effervescent Mr. John McEnroe.
Typically with this type of blog post, we’d just reel off a list of x salient points. Today though we’re going to do a little more and add some more videos to the WimbleTube.com video blog based on this concept, and we’ll walk you through why creating a list post is a great idea.
Creating an Impactful & Useful Blog Post
If you check out the more popular news sites such as Digg.com, you’ll notice a new phenomenon happening. Internet marketers and bloggers have uncovered a technique to attract more attention to their blog posts, and it’s all in the title and the format of the post – enter ‘The List Post’.
To understand the success behind this wave, we need only look to the short attention span of today’s web surfers. People have less and less time to spend on any single activity online, and so information that is broken down into easily understood, ordered and consumable pieces is just what people need.
Looking at Digg right now, I can see the following list style posts appearing on the first few pages:
- 7 Obnoxious ***** Who Show Up At Every Concert
- 5 Corporate Promotions That Ended in (Predictable) Disaster
- 55 Massively Demotivational Car Posters
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The other reason it works is that it takes the work out of certain activities. For research or business purposes, having someone take the time to define 11 Epic Wordpress Plugins for Twitter as we did a few days ago, can make your life a lot easier.
So here’s our list of the Top 10 Funniest Moments in Wimbledon Tennis History.
1. John McEnroe – You Cannot Be Serious
Probably one of the most classic moments in all of tennis. McEnroe is amazing, the sport is definitely not as colourful without him on the court.
2. Tommy Haas vs Roger Federer
In this clip, German player Tommy Haas tries to distract Roger Federer by coming in to the net and waving his arms around. Pretty funny. Nice to see that Federer sees the funny side of it.
3. Leconte Funny Moments
Frenchman Henri Leconte has always been a crowd favourite for his charming antics.
4. Del Potro – Don’t touch the Net
Del Potro decides he needs to tighten the net a little, but the umpire sends someone out to check that the net is now at the legal height.
5. Andy Roddick Funny Moments
Ok, I’m straying away from Wimbledon here although some moments are from Wimbledon press conferences. Roddick is a funny man, I had no idea he had so many great quotes.
6. Line Judge Lays an Egg!
7. Baby Laughing at Tennis Grunting
Hilarious. A baby laughs every time the players grunt during a match at Wimbledon.
8. Loudest Grunts at Wimbledon?
It’s getting to the point where it sounds like they’re either having sex or being tortured.
9. Goran Ivanisevic vs Goran Ivanisevic
The BBC gets creative with an interview with the popular Croatian.
10. Michael Llodra crashes into ball girl…
I hope you had a few laughs from our Top 10 Wimbledon moments. Now try writing your own list post on your blog to see if you can get some free traffic for your site.
For some simple blog promotion tips, read our last post – 2 Simple Ways to Promote Your Blog .
