Tuesday, January 27, 2009

AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2009: Defending champion quits(!)

Defending champion and World #3 Novak Djokovic surprised
very few avid tennis watchers by retiring down 7-6 6-4 6-2 2-1 against Andy
Roddick to relinquish his title in this year's quarterfinals.
Roger Federer served up two(!) bagels to extremely talented
youngster Juan Martin del Potro in a 6-3 6-0 6-0 drubbing
to reach a record 19th consecutive Grand Slam semifinal
where he will play Andy Roddick, whom he has never lost to in a major.

Rafael Nadal will likely get past the pulchritudinous Fernando
Verdasco
for his second consecutive Australian Open semiwhere he will face...

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga who put a beat down on
the Spaniard last year to reach his first Grand Slam final.
Will history repeat itself?

The Australian Open is heating up (literally). Unfortunately, World #3 Novak Djokovic couldn't take the heat while World #2 Roger Federer seemed to thrive in it. MadProfessah will have more on the upcoming semifinal matches, which I believe will be Federer v. Andy Roddick and World #1 Rafael Nadal v. last year's finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I sure hope Tsonga does his thing if he gets to Nadal, a repeat of last year. del Potro? That was a clinic Riger gave, and, he is going to have to rethink his game with the big guys, but, he's so easy on the eyes that win or lose, its a great match when he plays.

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