Life Reloaded!!!

2008 - Nadal wins French as well as Wimbeldon Spain wins Euro Cup 2010 - Nadal wins French as well as Wimbeldon Spain wins the World Cup

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Whoa!!! What a match!! I am really proud to have watched the last set of yesterday’s Wimbledon Final. Initially when I came to know that Roger was pitted against Roddick in the final, I thought it would be a piece of cake for the swiss master. But Andy played the best tennis of his life. He not only dragged the match into 5 sets, but also took final set to 14-16. In fact, Federer was not able break the booming Roddick serve till the last game. In fact, it basically came down to who loses his serve. Federer was coming up with Aces when he needed and Roddick was making those unplayable body serves. To be honest, Roddick has improved a lot in last few months. He even improved his record in French Open last month. He was regarded as a one dimensional player with a great serve. Even though I am a great fan of Federer, it felt a little sad to see Andy lose like that. He wasted 4 set points in second set. He not broken in the whole match till the deciding game. Hopefully, as Roger said, And...

'My ambition is to be a very, very normal guy. A very humble guy, who wants to be the best.' -Rafael Nadal

Did you know that one third of all the viewers all over the world are from India. I mean nation "India" and not Indian subcontinent. So just imagine the viewership of Hockey in other countries, especially European ones. Of course, they have much much better infrastructure and thats why they have been successful in recent past unlike India or Pakistan. The FHI (International Hockey Federation) is its best to revive Indian Hockey. But as we have this week what results it is producing. I hope at least the women team qualify for the Olympics.

A bad news for all sports lover in India. India was not able to qualify for the Olympics in Hockey. Its too sad that once the greatest superpower in hockey, Indian players would have to watch that Olympics hockey while sitting at home. With Cricketers doing so well Australia, its going to be very difficult for Hockey to get fundings in the future. Here is the news .

Well yesterday was a superb day for sports. There were 2 brave efforts which made the day special. First it was David Nalbandian beating Federer in Madrid masters final. He was unseeded, has not entered a single final this yr, is out of top ten(in fact 25th to be precise). He became the first player since Boris Becker to beat top 3 players in the world in a single tournament. (Nadal in  R8, Djokovic in semis, and Federer in finals) If that was not enough then what about Kimi "Iceman" Raikkonen? Into the last race of the season he was 7 points behind Hamilton, and 3 behind Alonso. Most of the papers were concentrating on the Hamilton VS Alonso fight. And it wasn't going to be easy for Kimi was it?? but, as I said miracles do happen... so when the race finished the scores were Hamilton 109, Alonso 109 and Kimi -110!!!!. He won the race and along with it the championship. Superb finish to the most controversial season ever. :)

For the first time in my life I watched a complete world cup final. And boy it was fun... Superb match as it was, it had everything, sometimes Indians on top, at others the Pakitsatnis. At the end it was the Indians who hold their nerves to be the winner. Well a small description of the match along with my reactions follows. Here it goes... The match begins with a surprise as Yusuf Pathan came to open the innings along with Gambhir(Hmmmm.... Has Dhoni gone made... I mean a rookie in final that to open the innings??) They started with an impulse but soon came down to earth as India lost Pathan, Robin, Yuvraj, Dhoni cheaply. It was the orthodox Gambhir who made 75 (HE got out on an unorthodox shot) Gul bowled really well. His yorkers except one were well directed and fetched him 3 wickets. Rohit Sharma provided the last flurish with 30 of 16 balls. Indians could get just 157 in their allotted 20 overs. Now it was Pak's turn to get 158. It was a mixed start for them as they lost 2 w...

We did it, we finally did it. India has won the world T-20 world cup. Here are some great moments in the match: http://picasaweb.google.com/darkside299/IndiaWinT20WorldCup2007

Its been great world cup till now. Its been fascinating to see Indians playing so well. They have reached the finals of the world cup. Its a dream final with Indians facing their arch rivals Pakistan. Both teams have performed above expectation. It will be big finale to this magnificent world cup. I will report the winner tomorrow (I hope India wins and I know they will).

Just to make a note of it- Roger Federer won the US Open Men's Single title by defeating Novak Djokovic whereas Justin Henin-Hardine won the Ladies Single title. Both got a whopping US $2.4 million as prize money. Congrats to them.

Its been eventful last month for Indian sports. Indian cricket team won the Test series in England, but lost the one day series 3-4. The match at oval was an absolute cracker. Everyone will remember it for a long long time. Apart from cricket, it was surprise wins for the Men's Football and Hockey teams. Football team won their maiden Nehru cup, while Hockey team remained unbeaten to hold the Asia cup. In fact India defeated Sri Lanka 20-0, a record. The biggest win was actually in Final when they thrashed Asian Champions South Korea 7-2.  As the news channels say it " चक दे  India ".