{ Tennis Mania }
After watching three Grand Slam titles slip away, winning the WTA Championships to finish the season with a No. 1 ranking was the perfect finale for Justine Henin-Hardenne. I supported Maria Sharapova but I guess Justine was just too good that day. 10:04 PM • Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Justine was the fifth player to reach all four Grand Slam finals and the WTA Championships final in the same year, and the first since Steffi Graf in 1993. She won a tour-high six titles, reaching 10 finals in her 13 tournaments played. Woah! Great feat! She lost to Amelie Mauresmo in the Australian Open and Wimbledon finals, and No. 2 Maria Sharapova in the U.S. Open final. She definitely repaid them by clinching her second season-ending No. 1 crown with the championships victory. Hah. So now the year-end Top 3 rankings are as follows: 1. Justine Henin-Hardenne 2. Maria Sharapova 3. Amelie Mauresmo. MARIA!! I STILL LOVE YA!! Maria's still young. This yr 19 only hoho. I'm sure she can make it next year =)
As for the guys. Hmm. Roger Federer looks like the strongest contender to win the WTA Championships. He has already been crowned No. 1 for end of year even if he loses in first round HAHA. Like what the hell? Is there really no one who can overtake his position? Hmm. I would say Andy Roddick would probably be his strongest competitor though he just lost to Roger 4-6 7-6 6-4 just a while ago. Pretty close huh? Andy just need to win his match against David Nalbandian, the 2005 WTA Championships winner. I'm sure he can do it especially since he has his new coach, Jimmy Connors. I can safely say that Roger Federer would already be in the semi-finals. I put my money on Andy Roddick to be the other semi-finalist from Red Group.
Gold Group. Let's see.. I would put my bet on Nikolay Daveydenko as the first semi-finalist. He has a great year, in fact, his best year if I'm not wrong. And the other guy would be James Blake? Hah he defeated World No. 2 Rafael Nadal in his first round! That's already something to look forward to man! James Blake remains the only player in the elite eight-man field to have a winning record over Nadal (3-0). James Blake also has his best season this year 56-23 with five titles -- and finishing in the Top 10 for the first time. So. James Blake would seem fine to cruise through to semi-finals.
I wanna watch the matches =( but can't. They don't show it live! Argh. Can only see the live scores, which is.. not fun at all. Haha. I would love to see a Federer VS Roddick final! I don't know. Even though Andy Roddick has slipped off the rankings since 2003, I definitely think he still has the talent and power to be a threat to Roger Federer! Oh wells. I say so much also no use cos it depends on the player's performance on that day. Who knows Federer might not even make it to Finals. =x Oops haha that sounds quite impossible though hahaha.
Next time I'll send my kid for tennis lessons hahahaha =/ Ok just kidding -_-
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