Getting your player ready...
“Vamos!” shouted the Indian doubles player. His Spanish-speaking opponents at the Australian Open were clearly not amused Saturday. Tennis etiquette was put aside during a heated doubles match between India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi and Spain’s Feliciano Lopez, who was playing with Juan Monaco of Argentina. “Vamos!” — Spanish for “let’s go!” — is commonly used by Spanish-speaking players and their fans. “It’s just one of the words I like to use,” Paes said after a second-round victory, adding that other Spanish-speaking players have taken offense to it in the past. “Nobody has a patent on it.”
