Tessamistic

Maria Sharapova has won this year’s Australian Open women’s finals against Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic (7-5, 6-3). It was a well anticipated finals between the two glamour girls of tennis with the latter being the crowd favorite. This was her second grand slam finals appearance since Roland Garros in France. I was also rooting for Ivanovic, but Sharapova was merciless on the court today. Last year she also reached the finals but didn’t win the title. This year was a different story. Without dropping a set she showed the world why in such very young age she already was able to win two grand slam championships: Wimbledon and the US Open respectively. Despite her win Sharapova will remain as No. 5 in the world rankings.

As for her part, Ana Ivanovic has nothing to be ashamed of. Although she lost she now moves to No. 2 in the world rankings from No. 4. World No. 2 at 20 years old? I’d take it. The Australian Open is just the first of the exciting grand slams to come this year. I’m sure we will see a lot of Ivanovic in the coming months. There’d be a lot of opportunities and being a future No. 1 is not far-fetched.

Moving on to the men’s finals, I still can’t get over the fact that Federer was kicked out of the tournament. One contact of mine on Multiply blogged about his (Federer) match against Novak Djokovic. He said Federer was a no-match and spelled “Serbians” as “Servians” at least two times. LOL. I think he was just trying to generate traffic to his site by talking about a current hot topic even though he’s not quite into it. Anyway, try to catch Tsonga vs. Djokovic tomorrow on Star Sports. I’m cheering for the underdog.