It was an enthraling night ( my time) to watch on TV how Roger tamed the 20 year old rising star from Serbia Novak Djokovic in the last Tennis major championship of the year - the 2007 US Open.

He is just 2 more slams away from the record 14th won by Pete Sampras and is the first player in the open era to win 4 consecutive US Open championships. The ladt person to do so was Bill Tilden .

I waited till late night to watch the match as I thought it was time for the new generation to take over and only Novak could beat the unstoppable Federer. The match started slowly as none wanted to attack for the first 4 games. It was Djokovic who drew first blood by breaking Federer’s serve for the first time.

It was evident that federer was not playing his best of tennis which was more visible from the 3rd set of his Semi-Final match against Nikolay Davydenko. On that set Nikolay showed the vulnerability of Federer as he constantly kept Roger on the baseline and just played solidl. Nikolay showed that- if you play solidly and do not make much mistakes - Roger gets frustrated and is prone to hit unforced erros!

I imagined Djokvic would have watched that match and would learn from it. But - though Roger played really bad- he broke back immediately after he was broken thus taking the initiatives away from Novak. Djokovic had 7 set-points in the first two sets but could not convert sinlge! - What a pity.

The final scoreline read - 7-6, 7-6, 6-4 in Roger’s favor.

What an end to an anti-climax! The first few games and first two sets brought hopes of an improbable upset asFederer was not hitting the balls as well as he could. But he is the ultimate king- his bad days are still better than good days for other players.

Go Roger Go- You can win the French Open too in 2008 - best of luck.

If the inhabitants of this delightful, rainy town can stand one Sunday of silliness, a second one won’t upset. Think people would go up against if the tournament made the first Sunday “Village Sunday” and gave people first dibs on tickets depending on the situation, it might even get worse. Further important, the increased volume of matches would destroy the court. If the weather is adequately cheerless, one roof won’t be enough.

The four-time defending champion, Roger Federer has lost five sets at this tournament since 2003, and has never had himself anything more than a mildly aggressive match. He needs no favors at Wimbledon. Wimbledon has called matches on the middle Sunday of the tournament on three occasions. It had fallen behind owing to rain in the first week. As doubtfully as it was for Nadal or anyone in his half to upset Federer before this tournament started, it might now take a sensation. The tournament remained on schedule; both the men and the women would have completed the fourth round. The women would have played their quarterfinal matches on Tuesday and the men on Wednesday, followed by the women’s semifinals on Thursday and the men’s semifinals on Friday. Because of Saturday’s rain, players in the bottom half of the men’s draw must play on Sunday, Monday in third round, and then Tuesday in fourth round, and Wednesday in quarterfinals. Why, though, can the Wimbledon tournament adjust to falling behind, yet not pay compensation in progress for almost definite chaos? The women’s draw would undergo, too, and it’s possible, though still mind-boggling at this point, that the women’s final won’t occur on Saturday. If no one plays on Sunday, the finalist from the bottom half might have to compete from Tuesday through Saturday. If rain washes out Tuesday, the tournament might have to move the final to give the bottom half enough time to work itself out, or require two matches in a day. A rainout on Monday and Tuesday, which is a distinct possibility according to the forecast, might ruin any chance of a champion up-and-coming from the bottom half if the tournament isn’t extended into a third week: The winner would have to notch five victories in five days, Wednesday through Sunday. Heck, veterans Wayne Arthurs, 36, and Jonas Bjorkman, 35, might need two sunny days to finish their third-round match, which promises long stretches without breaks of serve. Unless the weather improves radically, they’re both done for. Yet somehow the grim forecast couldn’t encourage tournament officials that it might be a good idea to play yesterday. The reasoning was simple: the tournament was “sufficiently on schedule” and in no need of a special session that would upset the inhabitants of Wimbledon, which is mobbed by visitors each year.

European football maximum authority UEFA, established that they will consider awarding a place in the UEFA Champions League to Cup winners from 2009.

The proposal could see the winner of each country’s main triumph tournament included in a new end-of-season play-off system or even granted an automatic berth to Europe’s elite club competition.There are rumors of many other ideas such as this one that are being discussed in the UEFA headquarters, one of them is that the cup winners from countries with more than one qualifying team for the Champions League would go into the tournament. Ideas such as this will go before the UEFA’s new strategic council in June and a final decision will be taken in September. It is still not something to be excited about for other countries since it would need the agreement of the clubs, leagues and national associations so if they support it, it will go forward or it might just disappear. A number of clubs have already expressed an interest in this situation. UEFA’s new strategic committee will have representatives from European’s football governing body, the players’ union FIFPro, the leagues and the clubs. It will also be asked to look at an idea put forward by UEFA president Michel Platini that would see the lowest qualifying teams from England, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Portugal playing off against each other for three places in the group stage of the Champions League.

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