You Expected This From Me Sooner
WTA Rankings
1. Maria Sharapova
2. Justine Henin
3. Amelie Mauresmo
4. Kim Clijsters
5. Svetlana Kuznetsova
6. Martina Hingis
7. Nadia Petrova
8. Elena Dementieva
9. Nicole Vaidisova
10. Jelena Jankovic
Never mind if you can't pronounce half those names. Three years of Russian in college, and I even have trouble.
Maria will get another crack at Serena soon enough. No need to remind me about the Australian Open final disaster.
As for Roger Federer?
Here's his latest quote:
"I had a lot of losses early in my career, I was sad and disappointed with some of those matches. To finally overcome all those things and become such a great player is something I never thought possible. I am enjoying every moment of it right now."
Do not confuse this attitude with excessive pride. False modesty would prove unbecoming. This guy knows exactly how good he is, and isn't wasting an everlasting second.
You didn't know you had clicked into tennis central. Perhaps you wandering into my reflections on an impulse of boredom, hoping for another diatribe on the lineage of English monarchy or a sappy song?
Woe betide the inveterate blog surfer gambling away precious time for table talk about income tax or computer gaming girls.
They say, "write what you know." When you know it, you know it. Once you start writing about what you know, you no longer know it. You are just remembering what you know you knew, you know?