Australian Open as the first Grand Slam of the tennis season is always full of surprises and puts all the players thru a test, based on heat, humidity and expectations. Dealing with all of those stimuli takes time and experience.
Seeing a lot of top players knocked out in the first week was no surprise as it always happens but luckly we've seen them walking away after great matches (Del Potro for instance). Also during 1st week of action the temperatures down under hit unbelievable records of over 40 Celsius degrees and there was a lot of fuzz about it. But let's be honest for a moment, it's Australia, middle of January which means middle of summer there, high temperatures always had been there and always will be (they will even get higher due to climate changing, no?) so making a huge controversy out of it is pointless and maybe the Authorities of AO should find a remedy (roofs on bigger arenas?).
Onto the players:
Eugenie Bouchard 19 years old Canadian made her first GS appearance and shortly she found herself in semifinal against Na Li (new Queen of Melbourne Park), going there she defeated Ivanovic (who sent home Serena) in 3 sets. Genie obviously made an amazing impression and showed what she's capable of. If you ask me in a few years she's going to be in the top 3 with a Major title(s) in her collection.
Agnieszka Radwańska after defeating Azarenka had an incredible chance for title with Serena and Masha excluded but once again she buried it easily loosing in semis against Cibulkova (similar to Wimby '13)
Roger as he said was in incredible form, played epic 4th round match with Tsonga, which in no detail reminded that 5 setter from last year, followed by win with Murray and a classic Fedal happend in semifinal. I have to admit I was very excited for this one as Roger's game was superb but you know, Rafa has this thing which makes Roger less confident and so Nadal advanced into final.
Wawrinka vs Nadal final was one of those matches which I didn't watch as I knew what the score would be and oh what a turnaround! Stan went on court absoltely careless and I assume he wasn't fully aware of playing a Grand Slam final and Rafa had some back problems which didn't allow him to play his best. And so after 4 sets of action Wawrinka won becoming Swiss no.1 player (bizzare isn't it? he's going to be earlier in rankings than Roger). Anyways he's had an incredible season last year and deserves it like no one else so back off haters ;)
I'm looking forword to this season, there's going to be a lot of action. Hopefully we'll see Roger lifting another Grand Slam trophy (Wimbledon would be just perfect, gold matches him) also all the youngsters are going to be worth watching, Bouchard, Robson, Janowicz, Dimitrov, are the names to remember and to await for.
thanks for reading :)
(pics taken from AO site)
Seeing a lot of top players knocked out in the first week was no surprise as it always happens but luckly we've seen them walking away after great matches (Del Potro for instance). Also during 1st week of action the temperatures down under hit unbelievable records of over 40 Celsius degrees and there was a lot of fuzz about it. But let's be honest for a moment, it's Australia, middle of January which means middle of summer there, high temperatures always had been there and always will be (they will even get higher due to climate changing, no?) so making a huge controversy out of it is pointless and maybe the Authorities of AO should find a remedy (roofs on bigger arenas?).
Onto the players:
Eugenie Bouchard 19 years old Canadian made her first GS appearance and shortly she found herself in semifinal against Na Li (new Queen of Melbourne Park), going there she defeated Ivanovic (who sent home Serena) in 3 sets. Genie obviously made an amazing impression and showed what she's capable of. If you ask me in a few years she's going to be in the top 3 with a Major title(s) in her collection.
Agnieszka Radwańska after defeating Azarenka had an incredible chance for title with Serena and Masha excluded but once again she buried it easily loosing in semis against Cibulkova (similar to Wimby '13)
Roger as he said was in incredible form, played epic 4th round match with Tsonga, which in no detail reminded that 5 setter from last year, followed by win with Murray and a classic Fedal happend in semifinal. I have to admit I was very excited for this one as Roger's game was superb but you know, Rafa has this thing which makes Roger less confident and so Nadal advanced into final.
Wawrinka vs Nadal final was one of those matches which I didn't watch as I knew what the score would be and oh what a turnaround! Stan went on court absoltely careless and I assume he wasn't fully aware of playing a Grand Slam final and Rafa had some back problems which didn't allow him to play his best. And so after 4 sets of action Wawrinka won becoming Swiss no.1 player (bizzare isn't it? he's going to be earlier in rankings than Roger). Anyways he's had an incredible season last year and deserves it like no one else so back off haters ;)
I'm looking forword to this season, there's going to be a lot of action. Hopefully we'll see Roger lifting another Grand Slam trophy (Wimbledon would be just perfect, gold matches him) also all the youngsters are going to be worth watching, Bouchard, Robson, Janowicz, Dimitrov, are the names to remember and to await for.
thanks for reading :)
(pics taken from AO site)
