Does this sound like anyone you know?

An unidentified, semi-naked male streaker, wearing just a skimpy t-shirt, disrupted the Williams sisters’ doubles match with a few dance moves on court and the Australian Open tennis tournament. The spectacle unfolded during Venus and Serena’s match against the duo composed of Japan’s Ayumi Morita and Germany’s Martina Muller. The intrepid streaker climbed over barriers and ran onto the court directly in front of the American players who greeted the intrusion with good humour. The man then vanished down the players’ tunnel before security personnel could react.

We don’t want to point fingers, but here are things we know: Rocket has small t-shirts. Rocket likes to dance. Rocket has a history of this sort of tomfoolery. We haven’t heard from Rocket for a while.

Ah, but nothing livens up a tennis match like a streaker. Or a thin coating of Teflon. Or a last-minute rule change that changes it from a game in which a ball is struck over a net to a game in which 11 players on each side battle over an oblong ball.

But let us ask a question: At what kind of event is it OK for a fan to pull a stunt like this vs. what kind of event is streaking never OK? We have it on good authority when we say this: 90 percent of Stu’s wedding party really didn’t like it when the groom dashed out pants-less.

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