Thursday, January 25, 2007

Serena's Cinderella Story

Williams, the seven-time Grand Slam singles champ was unseeded and ranked No. 81 in the world. But never count this girl out.

After many had written her off and said that her career was over, 25-year-old American Serena Williams made it back to a Grand Slam final with a win over Nicole Vaidisova at the Australian Open. Williams played only four tournaments in 2006, finishing the season 12-4 and without a title. She was the ninth-lowest ranked player to make a Grand Slam semifinal since computer rankings were introduced in 1975.

Williams will face the top-seeded 19-year-old Russian Maria Sharapova in the final. Williams and Sharapova are 2-2 in head-to-heads - Williams winning their last encounter after saving match points in the semifinals here two years ago before going on to win the title.

Considering all of her injuries, surgeries, and a mental breakdown, I am especially excited for her. We should all be proud because she is the only AMERICAN left..! Especially after the horrible loss of the other AMERICANS.

Andy Roddick


James FAKE
We already knew that James would FAKE us out as always. You know the routine ~ starts out well and than he CHOKE like a bad joke! Than we gotta hear about how he had a disease 10 years ago, was living in a bus, had to walk uphill both ways in the snow (barefooted) and made his incredible journey to play professional tennis. BOO-whooo..! However, I must admit that I was surprised, nah ~ I was SHOCK'd and DEVISTATED when Roddick got SPANK'D by Federer. I did not think he would win over the Master Federer - but I did not think he would get the worse BUTT KICKn tennis has ever witnessed. Roddick beat Federrer during an extibition match giving America some hope, but his time around Federrer says, "Now that there's a "PURSE" (no pun intended) involved, I will
NOT..!"

Now this is really funny... below is the response from Roddick after that match. You just gotta love his humor!


What it was like to be on center court of a Grand Slam and sent packing in straight sets?

``umm, It was frustrating. It was miserable. It sucked. It was terrible,'' Roddick said. ``Besides that, it was fine.'' DUH

Roddick was asked to describe the match from 4-4 in the first set.

``I got broken. Then I got broken three more times. Then I got broken two more times in the third set. Then it was over 26 minutes later. Is that what you saw, too?'' he said.

Questions turned to Jimmy Connors, the former great who is coaching Roddick.

``What did Jimmy say to you straight after the game?''

Roddick: ``He gave me a beer.''

and this one is my personal favorite..!
What was Connors advice coming into the match?

``There was a lot of strategy talk,'' Roddick said - but, ``it didn't go like, 'If you're down 6-4, 6-0, 2-0 here's what you do...' We didn't really talk about that. Oops.''