Sporting weekend
After a hectic week, it was very relaxing to watch some very tightly faight matches. Its a rarity that one should get a chance to watch 2 fighting matches on the same day, and played in the same country [ England ]
The first one was the Wimbeldon women's final match faught between Lindsay Davenport and Venus Williams. Oh, i hated the outcome of this match. Davenport was undoubtedly the better player of the two on that day, but Lady Luck smiled on Venus. Venus had such a horrible time playing that day. She had the most number of unforced errors. I guess that says it all. But, yeah some shots [ infact the ones that really mattered ] were won with great skill by Venus. She was gone and out of the game and pulled back in to win the Championship point. But, i guess, Davenport getting injured also helped Venus. One could very easily see that Davenport was not comfortable moving whatever little she moved earlier around the court. So the luck definately favoured Venus. But, we were lucky to have witnessed the longest women's wimbeldon final [ 2 hours 45 minutes ] and the last set going to 9-7. There was some awesome strokes played on court that day which was really amazing to watch. It was amazing to see the way Venus was always in catchup mode all through the match, and had to fight hard for each point and Davenport was zooming through the match all the time except for that one glitch in the final set when she gave away the break to Venus.
And the other match was the tie match between Australia and England for the Natwest series. Damn, i wanted to write about this since july 4th and i am getting time only today ... 4 days before July ends to actually complete this draft :( ... but anyway .. that match i still remember. Last over England needed about 10 runs to win with 2 wickets in hand, and McGrath was the bowler. He was bowling very very low to his standards. He bowled 2 full tosses and one of them went for a boundary as well. He saved his face by getting Gough runout in the third ball. But the worst thing was that England needed just 3 runs to clinch the title of the last ball, and they managed just 2, that too after Gillespie misfielded. It was indeed a very bad of ending a final match, with both the teams sharing the honors. But, if you watch the match closely especially the last over, one can very easily get a hint of a match fixing happening there. I hope i am wrong, but it looked really foolish of the Aussies to misfield of the last ball, to give England that vital run and give away the trophy.
The first one was the Wimbeldon women's final match faught between Lindsay Davenport and Venus Williams. Oh, i hated the outcome of this match. Davenport was undoubtedly the better player of the two on that day, but Lady Luck smiled on Venus. Venus had such a horrible time playing that day. She had the most number of unforced errors. I guess that says it all. But, yeah some shots [ infact the ones that really mattered ] were won with great skill by Venus. She was gone and out of the game and pulled back in to win the Championship point. But, i guess, Davenport getting injured also helped Venus. One could very easily see that Davenport was not comfortable moving whatever little she moved earlier around the court. So the luck definately favoured Venus. But, we were lucky to have witnessed the longest women's wimbeldon final [ 2 hours 45 minutes ] and the last set going to 9-7. There was some awesome strokes played on court that day which was really amazing to watch. It was amazing to see the way Venus was always in catchup mode all through the match, and had to fight hard for each point and Davenport was zooming through the match all the time except for that one glitch in the final set when she gave away the break to Venus.
And the other match was the tie match between Australia and England for the Natwest series. Damn, i wanted to write about this since july 4th and i am getting time only today ... 4 days before July ends to actually complete this draft :( ... but anyway .. that match i still remember. Last over England needed about 10 runs to win with 2 wickets in hand, and McGrath was the bowler. He was bowling very very low to his standards. He bowled 2 full tosses and one of them went for a boundary as well. He saved his face by getting Gough runout in the third ball. But the worst thing was that England needed just 3 runs to clinch the title of the last ball, and they managed just 2, that too after Gillespie misfielded. It was indeed a very bad of ending a final match, with both the teams sharing the honors. But, if you watch the match closely especially the last over, one can very easily get a hint of a match fixing happening there. I hope i am wrong, but it looked really foolish of the Aussies to misfield of the last ball, to give England that vital run and give away the trophy.
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