The papers were full of pessimistic predictions regarding Javier Zanetti's future in professional football after the 39-year-old tore his Achilles tendon during Inter's defeat to Palermo last month.
When the Serb beat the Spaniard 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 in less than two and a half hours on a warm, still afternoon in front of an awe-struck audience on Court Philippe Chatrier, to advance to the semi-finals against Andy Murray on Friday, he not only tore up the record books, he left a considerable psychic bruise on the outgoing champion.
Carr, a former NSW premier, pleaded with Labor to be more "canny" and "cunning" in its political strategies and said he knew the Labor government had "lost its way" when it picked a fight over media law reform in the lead-up to a federal election – a move which "tore up the Neville Wran playbook of how to get re-elected".
I may as well have said: 'I'm a eunuch!' "NME tore into me because the way I dropped my pants wasn't the way Madonna would have done it, or some shit.
Lord Tebbit, the veteran Tory Eurosceptic and former party chairman, tore into the prime minister, warning that people would leave the party in droves.
At first glance I thought that meant she tore down houses and looked for buried treasure in the foundations, but it turns out to be much more unpleasantly mundane than that.
Valencia knew that and went for the throat; Sofiane Feghouli on one side and Pablo Piatti on the other tore into them.
In December, the Coalition government tore up management plans drawn up by Labor to create the world's largest network marine parks off Australia's coast.
Remember he didn't race a full Olympic distance triathlon from late January, when he tore his hamstring, until six weeks ago in Kitzbuhel.
Commenting on his committee's highly critical report into the way the government has handled the review, Boswell also tore into it for spending up to £5m on the project, only to make no effort to pull its findings together and make them accessible to a public that wants to know the truth about the UK's relationship with the EU.
San Jose, bolstered by the continued saves and the dodged bullets began counterattacking and, almost like a movie script, tore apart the stunned Galaxy defense for three unanswered goals; two of those goals in stoppage time.
