I stayed up late last night, watching the match between Safina and Mauresmo in the last 16 of Wimbledon. I thought that Mauresmo was going to win the match when leading 3-0 on the third set after both of them won one set a piece. But Safina lives up to the expectation as world number one and overturned a 0-3 deficit to capture the last set at 6-4. Both fought like lioness but perhaps long battle was clearly costing a toll on the 29-year old Mauresmo while credit has to be given to Safina for her gutsiness and never say die attitude.
The match between Federer and Soderling was pretty much a serving contest as mentioned by Federer during the interview after the match. They were firing aces after aces and no long rallies so the match was quite boring. The match between Andy and Wawrinka should be very exciting as that 5-set thriller was the latest ever finish in Winbledon as reported by ESPN but it was too late for me to watch as the match between Safina and Mauresmo ended close to 1.30am. Perhaps a replay can be seen tonight on 813.
It is fun watching professional tennis tournaments as the players are so committed that sometime their guts and spear wills outpace exhaustiveness to churn out miracle shoots. It will be fun to see Andy playing Federer in the final but alas I miss the grunts of Maria Sharapova already.
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