Got home from church, showered, and turned on my laptop to check Estoril final live scores.
Turned out Fed won the first set 7-6(5)
After 5 minutes of me scoreboard-staring, Fed broke back to make the score 1-2. Now he just needs to hold serve to even it out to 2-all and try to get a break later. Or so I thought.
2 (unsuspecting) minutes later, my faithful and trusty laptop screen shows this:
Winner by RETIREMENT? At a tournament final? Did I read that correctly? O_o;;;;;
Obviously can't say much as I didn't actually watch the match. But one thing's for sure - this was clearly one of the most flabbergasting, dissatisfying, jawdrop-worthy ways for Rog to win a title.
With all that's happened this 2008, I guess anything can happen. Anomalies galore. Let's do a recount of the year's Roger-strangeness, shall we:
- Rog was diagnosed with chicken poisoning
- Rog was diagnosed with mononucleosis
- Rog didn't reach a GS final for the first time in the last 13 GS's
- Rog didn't reach any final for that matter, let alone win anything
- Rog loses in R1 of Dubai where he was supposedly defending champion
- Rog loses to Mardy Fish who was then-ranked 98
- The low-down: Rog loses to Andy Roddick whom he's owned since 2003
- Rog's forehand died and went to heaven
- Rog's backhand followed suit
- Rog's serve showed similar symptoms (lacked the saving grace it used to have)
- Rog trial-hires a coach (...an anomaly that makes sense, finally!)
- Rog displays repeated attempts at nonsensical drop shots
- Rog's first title of the year comes, ironically, on CLAY
- Rog is currently sporting the world's biggest pimple/zit/bee-sting/whatchamacallit, which for all we know might have actually been the secret to this victory O_o;;
It's been a year of 'reverse-karma' for Rog so far (...probably to make up for having had four too-good years. Selfish guy, eh.) ^^;;
Ah well. You win some you lose some. What matters right now is this: a W is a W :-)
Cheers and beers for all,
-tmsh-
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