Wimbledon - one last time

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Wimbledon - one last time

Filed under: Justine and tennis — cristyjones @ 12:55 am

I take back the words that I said - at least some of them. It came out that I was still a little bit interested in the final results. Here it is: Venus Williams defeated Marion Bartoli to claim her fourth Wimbledon trophy: her namesake - the Venus Rosewater Dish. And (still) to be fair to Marion (which I know I’m very good at considering everything…) she still showed her good moves, she dug in especially in the 2nd round. And as for Venus, well, she is a grass court player - no doubt about that. In fact, I think that her current position in the WTA rankings is a fake because the rankings aside, she is still in the top five. But oh well, there are rules and rules, so…

The men’s finals this year was a repeat of last year’s. But the similarity ends there. Why? Man oh man, Rafa gave King Roger a hell of a shock all the way to the fifth set! Whew! But Roger proved his being an all-around tennis player. Furthermore, he concretized an important point: centre court at Wimbledon is indeed his home - no matter what Jonas Bjorkman may have to say on that matter. And, he equaled Bjorn Borg’s Wimbledon record - winning it for 5 straight years. Not to worry for Rafa, though. He’ll hoist that Wimbledon trophy some time in the coming years.

As for the doubles, the Bryan brothers were denied winning the men’s doubles for two consecutive years - it’s the year of the French, that’s why. And oh, something’s brewing in the mixed doubles; something good and definitely one to look forward to especially in the next grand slam, the US Open, and that is the unusual pair of Jamie Murray and Jelena Jankovic who, despite teaming up for the first time, got ahold of this year’s mixed doubles trophy. And the chemistry between the two was just too obvious. Hmmmmm,….

And talking about chemistry, that’s what I teach but I’m a ROARING (sic) supporter of tennis (especially to Justine Henin) since high school - thanks to my father (who I watch countless tennis matches on TV to the chagrin of my mother) and Michael Chang (who we’ll be hearing more of hopefully since he just came back to the pro-tennis circuit as a coach) and Marcelo Rios (whatever happened to him?).

Enough of Wimbledon for now, at least for this year. So what’s up now with tennis? Well, one more grand slam - the US Open - in August with Maria (G-R-U-N-T) Sharapova as the defending champion and the WTA championships near the end of this year and the fight for the numero uno position who happens to have Justine as the defending champion (to both). An in between are the US Open Series and other Tiers I, II and III events.

Allez Justine! Tu es mon heroine - always.

(Look out also for this up and coming Serbian player: Ana Ivanovic. She’s really good and all of 19. She’ll be in the same caliber as Justine - soon. I know so.)

gracious even in defeat