murder tennis

Anton holds court

Torben and Lars Ulrich

Torben Ulrich was a professional tennis player.

His son Lars was a serious tennis player as a child.

The symbolic links between hideous and imaginary animals and the Devil's game are rooted in the Old Testament. This particular racket-horned demon is an allusion to the evils of tennis and to man's inclination towards sin; the beast is also thought to be the incarnation of the Devil.

Ace

Slice

The Stan Smiths

The artist describes this as a "an angry goth ode to a childhood tennis hero."

gg (test)

Tennis anyone?

wallpaper detail:

found image

via THIS Welsh sporting site

found image

via photobucket

High Priest

found image

via vintage adult books online

A match with Manson