I didn't watch one final today. I was tired and I wanted to watch Ghana vs Serbia. The World Cup is addictive even for someone like me who only really starts paying attention to soccer in WC years.
You don't like that excuse for not watching the finals at Queens Club, Halle or Birmingham? It's the truth. I made a conscious choice not to watch. It did cross my mind to watch Birmingham but I was too lazy to act on it. Living on European time wears you out you know?
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
At any rate here are the singles and doubles winners for the three events.
Cara Black and Lisa Raymond defeated Liezel Huber and Bethany Mattek-Sands 63 32 ret.
Sergiy Stakhovsky and Mikhail Youzhny defeated Martin Damm and Filip Polasek 4-6, 7-5, 10-7
Novak Djokovic and Jonathan Ehrlich won the doubles crown defeating Karol Beck and David Skoch 6-7(6), 6-2, 10-3.
This and That
Fernando Gonzalez will be out for ten weeks with injury. He will miss Davis Cup and Wimbledon. He hopes to be back for Toronto.
Juan Monaco is out for nine weeks with a wrist injury.
Mario Ancic had to withdraw from Queens Club and the tournament in Holland citing a back injury.
Richard Gasquet withdrew from Queens Club with a back injury.
Juan Martin del Potro is out until after the US Open with a wrist injury.
4 comments:
The matches this morning were great Savannah. The one in Halle was really good. Even though my guy lost I have to say that Hewitt was the much better player today. His first serve was not around in the first set and Fed being Fed took advantage. The second set was going to be a bit like the first except that Hewitt dug in and really started to play with abandon. Fed's first serve deserted him and while he had numerous chances to break the Hewitt serve, he just could not capitalise. Is he in doubt for making the second week of Wimbledon, I doubt it.
I was really upset that most of the folks left after Sharapova's match yesterday. I watched this morning's match (2 screens up at the same time) and man did Na play well or what. She teed off on that Sharapova second serve like it was nothing. As is the norm when Sharapova's serve is under pressure, she starts to double fault. She did look tired today both physically and mentally and just did not seem to have any answers. I do not think she is as match tough as she would like to be especially heading into Wimbledon. If she is not careful and manages her time on court she could very well be out by the second round.
Hardly watched any of Queens. 2 screens open are about all I can spare.
Aravane needs to ditch the dress. It is ugly. She is too much of a beautiful young lady to be wearing this sort of stuff.
Thanks for the recap TennisAce. From your reports I'm sorry I missed them.
You can basically predict how Roger is playing based on Mirka's attitude. Here is the same woman during today's match against the same player, Falla.
Great picture Rabbit. Thanks.
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