Thursday, January 26, 2006

Play it like-Justine Henin-Hardenne


What a match we had on the morning! It was a clash of contenders of womens singles title,the match between Justine Henin-Hardenne and Glam-doll Maria Sharpova.
It was one of the most interesting matches, I saw in this edition of Australian open.First set,both ladies went over each other and after fierce battle,Maria won the first set 6-4.
Many of the spectators already started counting the belgium lady.But the second set was exactly anti-climax,Justine showed resilience in very broader manner,she not only did not lose focus but also played some fanatastic tennis,producing fanatastic baseline game (I think she is one of the bestline players in women tennis),superb ability to pick-up corners of court and powerded herself to come on top of Maria.
Second set was indeed test of mental toughness,physical ability,patience and focus on baseline game.Unfortunately,Maria failed in it,giving handfull of opportunities to justine.She lost her coolness and concentration in the game.One hard hitting fact come in to picture that Maria cannot play backhand drop shot perfectly,poor lady went on trying it again and again,everytime finishing in the nets.Justine broke her serves and won the second set 6-1.
At the end of the second set,Maria look exhausted as If she lost her gas.But strong words of wisdom came from her dad and she picked herself up for the ultimate challenge.Meanwhile, Justine was on top of her game ,looking more comfortable in the match than ever.
In third set,first four games both held their services,but again Justine produced fanatastic shots that placed in Maria in tricky and delicae posiion in match 5-2.But russian lady didnot let the match to go simply.She broke Justine's serve and came back in match 5-4.
Everyone was expecting to Maria to hold her serve to extend match in crucial stage,but experience and perserverance of Justine was too much,that led final knock-out punch to Maria
and Justine won third set and match 6-4.
Maria was shaky in baseline game,she was not best playing long volleys at baselines.Her physical fitness and mental toughness was not upto mark.She was letting her frustration out on umpire decision by frequently asking questiong umpire.
On the other hand,Justine palyed calm and collctive tennis in whole match,she didnot let her frustrations out,instead she put all in her efforts in match and won wonderfully.Another masterpiece,way to go belgium lady..............and finals is next.

2 Comments:

At 12:38 PM , Blogger THE PROPHET said...

hmm,
i am impressed. u are showing that u know much abt the game. well its a good thing that u know it. and i admire ur passion towards the game. i wont go into details but hey, plz dun write a review here as dani used to write abt Euro. and if at all u want to write, no one can stop u, after all blog is entirely ur space. and yes we wud love to read it, but neways the review looks boring man and especially technicalities u mention.
and above all...Sharapova isnt my fav ..i like Henin too.

 
At 9:28 PM , Blogger Varun Rajkumar said...

....I am dissapointed for Sharapova...

I'd rather watch her ass, than Henin's....

A superb, rocking post....well written!!!

 

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