I saw an item in the Daily News’ Gatecrasher this morning about Gossip Girl star Sebastian Stan participating in Bode Miller’s “Tennis Fusion” event on the Upper East Side on Tuesday.
The what now?
A Google search for “tennis fusion” almost entirely returns references to this very same event — specifically Sebastian Stan’s involvement — and nowhere can I find any details that elucidate what, exactly, “tennis fusion” might be?
What did you fuse tennis with, Bode Miller? Competitive downhill skiing? Drinking? Watch promotion?
I, for one, hope it was something violent. There are many things I like about tennis — most notably that it features no clock so it, like baseball, “ain’t over ’til it’s over” — but one thing it’s always lacked is full nelsons. Maybe tennis fusion means that doubles partners are on opposite sides of the net, and the person on the same side of the net as you is actually your opponent, and he’s encouraged to resort to bodily harm to hamper your chances of returning a serve.
The other big news here? One of the stars of Gossip Girl is named “Sebastian Stan.”
That can’t be his real name, can it? Did someone really cast a show starring — listen to these names — Leighton Meester, Blake Lively, Penn Badgely, Chace Crawford, Taylor Momsen, and, of course, Sebastian Stan?
Apparently, at least according to the show’s IMDB page. I’ve never seen the show, though Matt Cerrone raves about it. Regardless, if the characters in the show had that set of names, I’d dismiss it as unrealistic.
Tedquarters 
Maybe this is Tennis Fuson.
Mr. Big Time, I don’t know what tennis fusion is, but I know the new Andre Agassi book (or in my case audio cd) is Riveting. For one I was always a big Agassi fan and even though it’s not his voice to hear about how logically he was makes him that more interesting. Definitely a must read or listen too. Next to that Ron Darling’s book, I read that one because they didn’t have an audio cd. Good Stuff.