January 26, 2006

So I've been watching the Australian Open. The games have been shown live on ESPN2, but later at night like after midnight. Trying to watch the games and not succumb to the sleepiness you naturally feel is hard. Get a buddy on the phone for a couple of hours and that helps to stay awake.

There have been some great games like watching Martina Hingis play again after coming out of a 3 year retirement. Last night's games were REALLY good. I was just hoping that they wouldn't go on for too long, but then again it was obvious that they would go into 3 sets. Justine Henin-Hardenne vs. Maria Sharapova was great to watch. But Amelie Mauresmo vs Kim Clijster was so much more intense. All these people seem to be baseline players, so the rallies were sometimes endlessly good. It sucks that Clijster twisted her ankle in the 3rd set and couldn't finish the set. It was an "OUCH! OH NO!" moment...which ESPN just had to repeat over and over again. Painful.

And what was up with Kiefer throwing his racket at Grosjean? Ok so he didn't throw it directly at him, but he did throw it in the direction of where he had to hit the ball to clearly distract him. Bad, bad, bad. Only guilty people try to play it off as much as he did.

Anyway...on to Saturday finals. :)