australian open - day 10
jl: start counting how many matches federer gonna lost this year. i say between 5 to 10 matches. but definitely not lesser than 5.
by now you should have known about this incident:
however, i'm confuse whether kiefer "toss" or "throw" or even "lost control" as written by the aussie open website, the racket into grosjean's side of court. that's two very different situation but i think kiefer throws than toss after listening to his the press conference. kiefer was basically being grilled by the journalist. all kiefer can say was "well, it was a tense match and you have to understand we were "suffering" out there under the hot sun"
i think this photo tells us that kiefer was throwing the racket thinking he will be unable to return grosjean shot but grosjean actually netted that shot and kiefer's racket ended in grosjean's court.
since this is the longest match for 2006 tournament, it wasn't really a good news for the winner too coz he has to play again tomorrow. will the winner running out of stream after this marathon match tomorrow? we'll see!
while my favourite girl is through to the semis. who are you going to support between mauresmo and clijsters?
hey people, working and can't watch the live matches on tv? do you know the aussie open's ibm on-demand scoreboard has this function called "point tracker"? after every point played, the tracker will show the balls direction for each point. try it out today.
my prediction for the semi final:
nalbandian/baghdatis - nalbandian err... baghdatis maybe
federer/kiefer - federer
mauresmo/clijsters - clijsters
henin-hardene/sharapova - henin-hardene
i'm not sure who to choose with nalbandian/baghdatis. while federer is a clear winner for me. while my favourite girl is clijsters and will do not favour mauresmo at all. sharapova was pretty shaky through out the tournament though my first choice of champion was her earlier but i'm changing my vote now.
day 10 complete result
day 11 schedule of play
day 11 tv time (for SEA only) - women's s-final starts at 10.30am while men's at 4.30pm.
by now you should have known about this incident:
however, i'm confuse whether kiefer "toss" or "throw" or even "lost control" as written by the aussie open website, the racket into grosjean's side of court. that's two very different situation but i think kiefer throws than toss after listening to his the press conference. kiefer was basically being grilled by the journalist. all kiefer can say was "well, it was a tense match and you have to understand we were "suffering" out there under the hot sun"
i think this photo tells us that kiefer was throwing the racket thinking he will be unable to return grosjean shot but grosjean actually netted that shot and kiefer's racket ended in grosjean's court.
since this is the longest match for 2006 tournament, it wasn't really a good news for the winner too coz he has to play again tomorrow. will the winner running out of stream after this marathon match tomorrow? we'll see!
while my favourite girl is through to the semis. who are you going to support between mauresmo and clijsters?
hey people, working and can't watch the live matches on tv? do you know the aussie open's ibm on-demand scoreboard has this function called "point tracker"? after every point played, the tracker will show the balls direction for each point. try it out today.
my prediction for the semi final:
nalbandian/baghdatis - nalbandian err... baghdatis maybe
federer/kiefer - federer
mauresmo/clijsters - clijsters
henin-hardene/sharapova - henin-hardene
i'm not sure who to choose with nalbandian/baghdatis. while federer is a clear winner for me. while my favourite girl is clijsters and will do not favour mauresmo at all. sharapova was pretty shaky through out the tournament though my first choice of champion was her earlier but i'm changing my vote now.
day 10 complete result
day 11 schedule of play
day 11 tv time (for SEA only) - women's s-final starts at 10.30am while men's at 4.30pm.
posted by smellyfart at 9:00 PM
2 Comments:
did federer really play that bad? i only caught the tie-breaker in the 4th set by the time i got home.
i think anything less than a perfect win will be viewed as a crumbling federer. the fact remains that federer is still in the tournament and i don't see him losing this, even though it may be more than a walk in the park.
how many time will him lose this year? tough guess, but i think if he wins AO, the main priority will be winning french open, which in my opinion will be more important than say losing only 1 time the whole year, in which the only one time comes from roland garros
he can produce amazing shots (or "marvelous" as the only vocabulary being used by Vijay Sigh, the commentator) but those unforced errors is really annoying. he's winning but not invincible. more vincible than invincible.
in the end, he still say "its not me that losing the grip but my opponent was playing very well"
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is he saying that just to let his next or future opponent knows he still has it or simply do not want to accept the reality that he's slowly losing it?
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