You have no idea how happy I am.

OK, maybe you do. People said his chances were pretty good going into the final against Robin Soderling, but I wanted to see it to believe it. I figured Soderling was a bit tired from longer matches but DUDE. He is the only guy to have ever beaten Rafa at Roland Garros. SO. After the first set, I felt good about Rafa ( Read more... )

What happens when I wake up and log on to the Internet to catch some tennis?

( Good lord. Tennis rambling ahead. )

As soon as Gasquet got the second set against Andy Murray, I had a feeling. Well, rather, I prayed that he would win the third easily and call it a day. I hoped that there would be no repeat of Wimbledon 2008.

Yeah. Shouldn't have thought about Wimbly '08 because that was exactly what happened. And a repeat of AO '09 (but that was a loss to Gonzalez ( Read more... )

So I am very happy at the results of Day 3. Well, a bit disappointed in some sits but mostly, I'm very happy.

-Andy Roddick lost to Igor Andreev. See, I've never been much of a Roddick fan but lately, I've accepted the fact that yes, he is a nice guy (off-court). But on court, he's still a great big obnoxious arse who really, really, really gets on ( Read more... )

There's really nothing much to say about days 1 and 2 of the French Open because there was a near complete washout thanks to rain delays. Roger Federer won, Marat Safin won (phew!) and the Williams sisters won. Personally, not all that exciting.

The biggest thing about the French Open this year is that the Tennis Channel has taken over half of the ( Read more... )