I'm not a fan of Rafael Nadal and was hoping to see him go down last night to Fernando Verdasco. But both men provided such a fantastic game of tennis- the longest in Australian Open history, apparently, that whoever won well deserved to do so. In fact, as Nadal proclaimed afterwards, Verdasco deserved to win too! Forget about the Federer/Roddick match-up in the other men's semi-final: this was in another league altogether.
It was brilliant- even despite knowing the results well in advance thanks to Channel Seven being a pack of arseholes and refusing to air the match live, it was worth watching for the incredible tennis being played. To give you some vague idea of the standard of play witnessed, Verdasco did not make a double fault until well into the fourth set. Just incredible.
While it was rather pathetic of Seven to be still screening the match at around 1am, long after every other media outlet had finished their reports on the results, I suppose in this case we should be glad they deigned to screen it at all.
Surely the men's final is going to be something of a letdown after this... but at least it might be screened live for once, right?
4 comments:
"but at least it might be screened live for once, right?"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Lol... you're as bitter as I am :P
I agree - not a Rafa fan at all but it was one hell of a game.
And just to prove you are bitter...the women's final was screened live this evening...not that it was really worth watching!
Yeah... what a letdown! It was like watching Dinara Safina get a tennis lesson from Serena Williams, not a grand-slam final.
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