It's been awhile, let's just say. I was on vacation with the family, which went just as expected, and I followed Wimbledon quite religiously. EURO 2008 final happened (which I still haven't watched), Olympic trials for track and swimming are going on, I am about to go back to work. So let's start with tennis.
The ladies' final was contested today and Venus was the deserving winner. Probably on her best day Serena should have won, but I am no Serena fan so I had no problems with Venus winning. Plus my sister likes Venus. Nestor and Zimonjic won the men's doubles, and the Williams won the women's doubles, and quite-the-hit Laura Robson of Great Britain won the girl's singles. She's cute, especially with wanting to go to the ball with Marat Safin. And talking about Marat, he made the semis and played quite well against Federer. Needs those big matches to get good play during the tense moments, but there is a ton of hope for him. He's going to be ranked 40 on Monday! But in the end, it's Federer vs. Nadal in the final. So, vamos Nadal!
In terms of my favorites, it was overall good from Mario and Marin, especially Mario. Marin could have had his breakout into the semis, but he's not mentally ready. And I'm not sure he could trouble Clement when Clement is playing well anyway (WTF was he doing at 134?). But good for him, I hope he can push towards a seeding at the U.S. Open. Mario, meanwhile, is going to jump to #24 in the world! Andy Murray vs. Richard Gasquet did come to pass, and it was a crazy match supposedly. I only caught the end because of vacationing (exploring Botanic gardens on the 2nd Monday of Wimbledon sucks when you miss a day of 16 4th round matches), but Andy Murray's great hussle and subsequent firing up was replayed. I guess it was overall good, because Great Britain really needed someone like Andy to do well. But Richard, leading 2-0 and up a break in the third... Hopefully he improves on his 2nd-round showing at the U.S. Open from last year. Jelena lost, which I expected, in the 4th round vs. Tamarine Tanasugarn, and Svetlana also lost early. Sveta needs to stop being a mental case. But she doesn't feel that great on grass, though she does the most serve and volley. She needs to improve her tactics real bad. Dinara, also not home on grass, lost to Shahar Peer. So on the women's side nothing awesome happened, well except for the awesome run by Jie Zheng. I like her, I really do. I will definitely keep an eye out for her.
In other fun, Marin is going to play against Paul-Henri Mathieu again if he gets to the 2nd round at Gstaad. Crazy, they just met at Wimbledon and at 2 grass tournaments and two other times earlier this season. Marin hopefully wins the 6th meeting and takes the H2H to 3-3. But seriously, they must be attracted to each other. Haha...
There was no way I was going to avoid the EURO 2008 final result, and it is the best thing ever! Ghosts from the past have been certainly thrown off a cliff, never to be seen. Seriously this little sequence, starting with EURO 2008 and Turkey's craziness, has been totally unexpected. Maybe this different wind had spun its way through Wimbledon too. Nevertheless I wouldn't trade anything for this. Now if we were in Spain during this time...it would have been insane!
Swimming and track and field Olympic trials are going on, and I catch some news and some TV. Watching Michael Phelps, I can't see how the hell I found him attractive 4 years ago. His face is butt ugly! I guess he does have a great body, but seriously Ryan Lochte is much better looking, which doesn't mean much. Meanwhile, the only unexpected in track was the injuries that caused Tyson Gay and Allen Johnson to pull up lame. And meanwhile I am waiting for Olympic rosters for soccer and gymnastics to come out. Only about a month left before they start!
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