Saturday, July 26, 2008

Sisters Rule, Nadal the (New) King (Wimbledon Results)

Wimbledon was really entertaining after days of competition. In the final of women's singles, audience are once again entertained by Williams sisters. Men's singles final is still business as usual: Federer against Nadal.

Venus Williams had her glorious month after defending her Women's Singles title and added it with Women's Doubles title. Venus won 7-5,6-4 against Serena, and by motivation that her sister was thirsting to be a champion, she worked cooperatively and played agressively in the doubles match against Lisa Raymond (USA)/Samantha Stosur (AUS).

Meanwhile, after successfully defending his title in Roland Garros last month, Rafael Nadal once again triumphed for victory in Wimbledon, after beating Roger Federer. The match ended in 5 sets, 6-4,6-4,6-7(5),6-7(8), 9-7, and could be considered as one of the greatest match in this era. Nadal has moved closer to the top spot of the ranking and become the only person after Bjorn Borg to grab Roland Garros and Wimbledon's men's singles title in the same year.

Oh, and not to forget the result of men's doubles:
D Nestor (CAN)/N Zimonjic (SRB)x2 defeated J Bjorkman (SWE)/Kevin Ullyett (ZIM)x8
7-6(12), 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-3

Another result from mixed doubles:
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Samantha Stosur (AUS) defeated Mike Bryan (USA)/ K Srebotnik (SLO)x1
7-5, 6-4

Yeah, Venus Williams and Rafael Nadal. My inspirations, my idols.
(Photo by Lovelock, taken from http://2008.wimbledon.org)