Bartolli Roks !!!

******* Blogging this on 07-07-07 *******

Its a once in a century date !!! But then, isnt any other date a once in a century date ? ;-)

Watched a great fighting match of lawn tennis yesterday on center court. I so very badly wanted Bartoli to win and was very happy to see her win. The best thing about her game was her focus and composure. She didnt lose her composure even after winning the match. Ofcourse, may be she just didnt express her joy. After losing the first set to the world number 1, by 6-1, it was a complete uphill task for the humping and breathless Bartolli, who has a very strange style of serving from very close to her body. You could see her real game only in the second set when she was just focussing on getting just one point at a time and was very much helped with the numerous unforced errors from Henin. They had really long and very long rallies all throughtout the second set. It was Bartolli who was doing the running in the initial games, but later on she started playing on the weak forehand of Henin and started making her scamper all around on the court for every point. It was as if, she was taking a revenge on Henin for all the running she did earlier. There were really great classy strokes in the rallies where it wasnt much of luck that played, but the skills of the players that made watching the match even more interesting.

Once, Bartolli broke Henin in the second set to lead 6-5, there was no looking back for her. She had completely broken the confidence of Henin. Bartolli won 7 straight games from that point on to lead the penultimate set by 5 games to 0. Probably the fact that Henin has never made it to the Wimbeldon finals [ or is it just that she has never won the Wimbeldon finals ever ? ] started playing on her nerves and you could see her shoulders sag. From nowhere, Bartolli started finding her form playing some very beautiful forehands, pushing the ball to the far corners, reducing the match to a mere cat and mouse game, with Henin being the unlucky rat who was caught by the cat, knowing all the time that the cat was just playing with it and death was inevitable. Bartolli kinda made this evident, when she had some pity on the world number 1 and literally handed one game to Henin sparing her the embarrasment of losing the final set 6-0. Bartolli won the match 1-6, 7-5, 6-1. A phenomenal comeback I have witnessed for a long time now.

On a more personal front, I have been feeling on cloud nine since yesterday after being fascinated by the awesome MotoRokr E6. It truly rocks !!! A touch pad screen with clarity better than my laptop, sound clarity unheard of in Motorola phones [ well, its about 3 years back when i tried a Motorola mobile and was so very dissappointed by its sound clarity, the most basic part of a mobile. ] I have been hooked up to the FM Radio that comes with this handset all day long. Except for RealPlayer scrolling list being very very very slow, everything about this handset is just so very cool. The coolest thing being that its based on Linux ;-) and probably the main reason for *not* making a huge hole in my pocket. Great video recording with 2 Mega Pixel screen with 1.4X focus zoom, that comes with a 1GB storage space for mp3, pics, video and a business card recognizer, its centuries ahead of my first mobile, the Sony Ericsson T310.