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girlintheyhat

Australian Open and Arshavin...

Feb 02, 2009 20:07

As of now, AFP reports that Arshavin has signed for £12m. Here's hoping, all the news seems to be like a pendulum today.

Ah, the Australian Open. Friday's semi was pretty unbearable, seeing as I was at my desk at work. So I was restricted to just flicking back and forth at the BBC Sport website and bashing F5 every so often. At one point I was ( Read more... )

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girlintheyhat February 5 2009, 09:48:00 UTC

That rally where he put his arms up to celebrate I think it was in the 4th? Stunning. And yet he lost the 4th set, it almost doesn't make any sense. I was a bit worried after the 4th as, much like with Wimbledon, I thought damn, Federer has the momentum. It turned out not to be the case.

Really good article at tennis.com about the final: http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/2009/02/rafa.html

Did you read his blog in The Times? I love it, hopefully he'll do one at RG as well.

As upsetting as Fed's reaction was, I thought Mirka's reaction was very telling. I'm quite scared that Fed might not recover from this loss, which would be a loss to all of tennis.

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girlintheyhat February 6 2009, 10:29:22 UTC

This is what is still so thrilling about being a Rafa fan. No matter how many times you've seen him hits shots or chase down balls in an amazing fashion, he still never ceases to amaze. Whenever I have a hard day at work I glance at the pic of Rafa I have on my desktop and I put myself in the mindset to just keep hitting balls back and keep going ( ... )