For tennis fans, the beginning of the year is always a good time as the tennis world shifts its focus to Australia for the Australian Open. And this year proved to be one of the better years as there were some incredible matches played in the past two days. The highlight of the tournament so far had to be the Safin vs Federer match, and although I haven't had the chance to see the entire match, it turned out to be a great battle as the two fired shots at each other for 5 gruelling sets. But at the end, the Safinator found his way to derail the Fed Express and give himself a spot in this years men's final. And Federer, who was on a 26 match winning streak, showed that he was indeed beatable. But kudos to both players for putting on a great match that will probably be remembered for a long time.
Unfortunately, the womon's final didn't turn out to have the same dramatics as the previous two women's semi-final matches. It pitted Serena Williams again Lindsay Davenport, who both fought through tough 3 setters in their previous matches to get through. Serena started off a bit badly and tweaked her back somewhat as Davenport ran away with the first set. But Serena began finding her range in the 2nd set and the two fought to 3-3. But a loosely played game in the 2nd set by Davenport seemed to just send her into a sprial, and Serena won 9 games in a row to take the last two sets 6-3 and 6-0 in sort of an anti-climatic fashion. Davenport just couldn't buy herself any consistant shots as she sprayed error after error during those nine games! Usually, Lindsey is known for her "smooth" style of play and shotmaking, but I guess the mental aspect of the game just got to her, and she has had a tendency to go on a "hissy-fit" when she loses and just can't find the range on her shots anymore. Oh well, kudos to Serena for hanging in there!
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