As It Happened(8-7-10)

Hi,

It was such an exciting and thrilling past 1 month for the sports fans like me. Its not only FIFA world cup but also other sports events like Asia Cup, Wimbledon and Indonesia & other badminton series provided an non stop entertainment for the past 20-30 days.

FIFA --> Though the league matches were quite boring (as I said in my previous blog) the tournament got it pace thumping up after round 16 matches. As like most of the football fans me too expected power packed Brazil vs Argentina Final. But unluckily both the teams were knocked out in Quarter finals by Holland and Germans. That too Argentina's defeat is huge let down. They are not able to score a single goal against German defense. On the other hand German easily break through Argentine Defense and dominated fully in 2nd half.

Brazil's defeat is a heart break for their nation. They paid the price for over confidence.

Ghana's impressive show continued till Quarter final where they last to Urugay. At the start of tournament I felt England as a favourite for the title but as tournament progressed i guessed they wont reach semis itself and i guessed right. England became much hyped team this time. Current Champions Italy also fell in that category.

Now Germans also ousted by Solid Spain team last night. Its going to be an unexpected final between Spain vs Netherlands on 11th July. I hope Spain wont give us any shock on sunday by loosing to dutch. Let us See how it goes!!!

Wimbledon -->If Brazil went down to Holland in FIFA , the great Fedex went down to Thomas Berdrych at the same stage in Wimbledon. But the main headline news prior to that is the first round match(which held for 3 days) between Mahut vs Isner which shattered old records and created a lot of new world records.

As like football (Brazil vs Arg) we expected a Fed vs Nadal final here but thats got abrupted in form of Berdrych. He not only defeated Federer but also shattered the dreams of inform Djokovic to reach the final.

But it was one sided in finals where "Animal" (thats how Mcenroe described him) Nadal easily cruised past Berdrych in straight sets. He become the first spaniard to win both french & wimbledon in same yr twice.

Note: Also happy news for Indians is Paes won the Mixed doubles title with Black. Rohan Bopanna reached quarter final in doubles while leander n mahesh failed to reach even quarters.

Asia Cup --> Huh!!! Atlast India won the Asia Cup back. This tournament become ineffective due to ongoing FIFA world cup. Though India won the cup I enjoyed the captaincy role played by Afridi for pakistan in this tournament. He tried his best to improve the team bonding for the team. Hope that team will perform under his capataincy in future tournaments. Im eagerly awaiting for Sachin's return for tests Vs Srilanka on July 18th. (Sachin Vs Murali !! he he he ... )

Lastly One should not forget about the 3 successive titles won by our Saina in Badminton in past 1 month. She thoroughly deserves those titles for her hard work. She also rised to 3rd in rankings now !! :-) . . Go Saina No:1 is not far away !!!

Personal Note: It was mixed feelings for me during last week. Though I got very good marks in my M.S 6th Sem exam i was not happy due to my role change to technical domain has been stalled !! :-( .. Still eagerly waiting for that oppturnity (Spark!!).. Donno how long I have to wait !! However No bad feelings !!! I'm ready for this battle!!! C'mon !!

Have a nice day friends !!!

Regards,

Harish Kumar P R