Tuesday 28 June 2011

Of The Wows of Wimbledon

Yey! It's Wimbledon and what a great one it is proving to be!
The story so far belongs to Sabine Lisicki. Last year she's at home with an injury and has to learn to walk all over again. Last week she beat the French Open Champion on Centre Court in front of 15,000 spectators and millions of viewers at home. She won because she wanted it so badly. You could tell that from every part of her body language - the mental focus was supreme. That's why tennis is such a great game. You get to a certain level and then improvement is all about developing the mental game.
A few years ago there was tennis on a Sunday on account of the bad weather the week before. I queued up almost overnight to get Centre Court tickets and was rewarded with matches including some of the greats that year and one great of all time Roger Federer.Federer didn't really appear to me to be a tennis player but more a wizard with a wand. As one BBC reporter commented he found angles with his racket that your geometry teacher would have told you at school were impossible. Geat stuff!

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