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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Tomas Berdych has tweeted 200 times in less than a week. (Photo from @tomasberdych)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;LONDON -- Tomas Berdych defeated\u00A0Thiemo de Bakker 6-1, 6-4 in the second round of the Aegon Championships on Wednesday. The match, Berdych's first on grass since back-to-back losses in the opening round of Wimbledon and the Summer Olympics last year, included a 40-minute rain delay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I think it's a preparation for\u00A0Wimbledon with [the rain delays],\" Berdych said. \"Especially these tough moments, it's also good\u00A0to know how to handle that, and I did it quite\u00A0well. So I'm happy for it.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The normally steely Berdych broke into a wide smile when asked about joining Twitter last week. \"It's pretty cool, pretty fun,\" he said. In just six days, Berdych has sent a whopping 200 tweets, including many responses to fans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, Roger Federer joined Twitter almost three weeks ago and he's sent 21 tweets. Maria Sharapova signed up in January and she's fired off only 234. Jamie Hampton opened an account a few days before Berdych and she has tweeted six times, one of which was a retweet of this:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/FortyDeuceTwits/status/342745033801363456&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Berdych, who surpassed 10,000 followers Wednesday, has been surprised by how quickly his count has grown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Because when I was doing the Facebook\u00A0page, there it took really long,\" Berdych said. He began his official Facebook page in October 2010 and now has 35,000 \"likes.\" Berdych added: \"So I try to do [Twitter] a bit differently from\u00A0the beginning, and it works so it goes fast.\u00A0I think that Twitter is more popular and more people are using that.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can he keep up his off-the-charts rate of tweets?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"That's kind of [my] inexperience with the\u00A0Twitter, that I start with a high level. I know it's\u00A0going to be tough to keep it up, but you never\u00A0know,\" he said with a smile. \"You never know.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of Berdych's best tweets from the last week, which include a plethora of bird puns; fending off people who think he broke ex-girlfriend Lucie Safarova's heart; and, in my personal favorite, quoting Edgar Allan Poe. Follow him at @tomasberdych.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342627290074718208&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342678584709742592&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342746901751427072&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342965331154837504&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342679547923275777&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342687208886632448&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/342873467827417088&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/343029134332657664&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/343421235679600642&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/343970087230926848&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/344176571675992064&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/344193873783947264&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/344433982382931970&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/344094824837832704&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/343370741556867072&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/344348327384592384\nhttps://twitter.com/tomasberdych/status/344550032046972929&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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