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| TheVrk |
This thing with Mirza is a shame...poor girl, honestly.
Instead of being an inspiration to female athletes in India, which lets be honest, are non-existent, it comes to this....
I hope she can block it out the best she can...
Fellow Croat Ivan Ljubicic is out...former #4, but the pinnacle of his career is passed, so not really that big an upset to me.
I kinda lost expectations for him about this time last yr...
Watch out for our young (19) Marin Cilic. Upset a seeded player in the 1st round,
and is the youngest player in the top 100 (ranked like #52).
Oh and ps, he's a Jr. French Open winner:)
Still nothing too surprising other than Murray going out...
and btw, dude who beat 'em, Tsonga, is into the 3rd round.
HEAVY, HEAVY serve...no one likes playing a guy like that.
Nice to see Sharapova crush Davenport, altho she's a yank i'm arite with. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by TheVrk
Instead of being an inspiration to female athletes in India, which lets be honest, are non-existent, it comes to this....
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Yeah. Compare her sitch to Marcos Baghdatis, from Cyprus. He's an eff'n LEGEND in his home country now, since that Aussie Open final he made it to against Federer in 2006!
He's an inspiration to his whole country bc there have been no (or few) Cypriots (sp?) who've made a name for themselves and represented their country like him in tennis... i think i heard last year that apparently HIS name is more reknowned and known than the present's of his country... WOW!
And then look at Mirza... similar sitch with there being few Indian players making a mark in tennis to any great or impressive degree...
yet instead of being inspiration as you put it, like Baghdatis is to his HIS country, she's spurned and the subject of endless controversies, etc.
Thats the truly sad part. SUCH a shame, yea. :whip: :whip: |
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| TheVrk |
Great comparison with Baghdatis...Cyprus has never really had any known athlete in ANY sport...
I do have to point out tho, his situation is different, coz he's in reality representing Greeks more.
His fans are not carrying Cypriot flags, but Greek...
...and thats a whole different convo on its own (the Greek vs Turk claim to Cyprus)
Whatever, its horrible Mirza is going thru this...i was SO glad to come to work, log onto Aussie Open.org and see that she won :D
No real upsets again, and its tuff to have many in the first 2 rounds.
The 3rd round is where it starts, and the 4th is where we have prime matchups begin.
BUT, as i mentioned Marin Cilic, he won his 2nd round match against Jurgen Melzer of Austria:gsmile: :gsmile:
Now he runs into last yr's finalist and #7 seed Fernando Gonzalez.
This would be a MONUMENTAL win for Cilic, the biggest in his career, but Gonzalez is TOUGH, so not expecting, just hoping.
Regardless, making to the 3rd round means MAJOR important points toward his ranking and he'll def move up from #52:happy2: |
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| TheVrk |
The man who upset #9 Andy Murray (SCO), Jo-Wilfred Tsonga is into the 4TH round.:eyes:
Tomorrow's my first FULL day of watching the Aussie Open.
Marin Cilic (CRO) plays #7 Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) at approx 3am my time here in Zagreb...definitely getting/staying up for this.:gsmile: |
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| eRRaTiK |
| quote: | Originally posted by TheVrk
This thing with Mirza is a shame...poor girl, honestly.
Instead of being an inspiration to female athletes in India, which lets be honest, are non-existent, it comes to this.... |
srsly, keep the politics out of sport. Oh I'm offended because you pointed your feet unintentionally at my national flag... don't people have better things to do?
the woman is representing her country dumbass.
i think Mirza needs a stronger, or faster, game though if she's going to take on the likes of Williams and big baseline hitters. |
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