It's a gentle(wo)man's sport, with violence on the court virtually unheard of. It's entertaining, exciting, and sometimes flabbergasting.
Remember last year's Aussie Open with the emergence of Jo-Wilfred Tsonga and Federer's OMG defeat in the semis? Well, last year's finalist Ana Ivanovic has been knocked out in the 3rd round, and so the surprises continue.
Canadian Daniel Nestor and his doubles partner Nenad Zimonjic were knocked out yesterday as well. They were seed #1. But the Bryan Brothers are still in and they look to have this tournee locked up...oops, shouldn't say that about Aussie Open.
Zheng Jie of China (Happy Chinese New Year by the way) sent Bondarenko of Ukraine packing yesterday, advacing to the fourth round! Do I sense another Wimbledon-like run by Zheng??!!
Right now, Juan Del Potro (seed #8) has just (literally, just) defeated Marin Cilic in a four setter at Hisense. Top seed Jelena Jankovic couldn't withstand the heat from Marion Bartoli and she went down earlier today in Rod Laver. Federer will face Berdych later today, should be a good one. Djokovic's fourth round match will come against Marcos Baghdatis, and we all know that the latter is capable of pushing fans to the edges of their seats.
We also saw a disgusting brawl between Serbian and Bosnian fans a couple days ago. It is just pathetic to see tennis fans acting like that. I love tennis partly because it is such a gentlemanly and good-natured sport, but ethnicity should never be a barrier to that. It's often said that sport trascends race
and religion. So, to those troublemakers at Thursday's match between Djokovic and Delic, grow up, behave, and enjoy the sport.Jose Calderon has currently nailed down 83 straight free throws. I honestly think this guy could break Michael Williams' record of 98. He's consistent like that, even after a costly injury. I expect the Raps to perform better with Calderon in the line up, but they've got to pick it up SERIOUSLY if Toronto wants to see another playoff season.
HOW 'BOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS THE OTHER DAY EH??!! AMAZING!!!
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