I'm supposed to shower now 'cause it's 12.41 a.m. in Australia and I'm really tired, but I had to check my email to see if there are any updates on my LL.M. applications ( Read more... )

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Nadal was down two sets to one against Philipp Petzschner last night, but I knew that, by the time I got home to watch the rest of it, he'd be winning the next two sets.
I was right. But still, I didn't expect him to take a medical time-out in the fourth set. And it wasn't just one; there were two, and his MTOs had caused some controversy.

Worrying ( Read more... )

Just came back from the Joshua Bell/Academy of St Martin in the Field concert to find out that Roger lost the Halle final to...Lleyton Hewitt.
My reaction is something like this: ...what?

Ah well. My favourite analysis of his post-Australian Open slump is the subconscious loss of motivation one. After you've pretty much done it all, what else is ( Read more... )

I'm not a fan of the new building. I don't like the pupils' room they've put me in - four of us squeezed into one tiny room, with one more girl joining us sometime later. There are no windows and my computer screen faces the door. That's fine, 'cause I don't do anything much outside of work apart from email Mag on Gmail and for this week, monitor ( Read more... )

Roger lost the first set to Lleyton 4-6. He was up a break, then up 40-0, then got broken. Then got broken again.
Made an astounding number of unforced errors, kinda reminiscent of his shoddy form at the beginning of the year.

And SuperSports isn't showing the match; somehow they think the World #4 is more interesting than the World #1.

Well, I ( Read more... )

1. Cincy Masters: Federer d. Hewitt 6-3, 6-4
The match was a little bit dull. Lleyton had some knee injury and couldn't move as well as he normally does, so Roger dominated the whole match. Played some great shots (backhand down-the-line pass, for example; and another wicked backhand down-the-line shot to break Lleyton in the second set), played ( Read more... )

OMG ROGER IS PLAYING LLEYTON TONIGHT.
THANK YOU SAM QUERRY FOR LOSING.

THANK YOU LLEYTON FOR WINNING.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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In more tennis news: Federer d. Ferrer 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

After Roger dropped the first set I knew it was going three sets. If Roger was to lose, there was NO WAY he'd lose in straight sets; ever since I started watching him, there ( Read more... )

First, I need to say this: I am sooooo addicted to this game, it's starting to get ridiculous. I derive immense pleasure from watching my prestige grow and my server ranking go up. And a bunch of other geeky things which I'm not going to talk about 'cause it's just too sad. The bottom line is, I'm borderline-obsessed with the game, and my beginner' ( Read more... )

The fourth set was really a waste of time because it was obvious he'd win. Phillipp K. got super lucky with the net cord at break point when Roger was serving at 4-3 - the ball scrapped the top of the cord and fell into Roger's. Roger scampered and got it back, but barely, and in futility; he didn't even bother trying to see where Kohlschreiber ( Read more... )