SO Close, yet so far !

After a long delay, my tennis update is here and it is a rather sad one. Though, i ll start with the good ones. Roger Federer tied the record for consecutive victories on grass, 41. He is now tied with Bjorn Borg when the swede went on to win 5 straight wimbledon titles from 1976-80. Rog won against Tommy Berdych at Halle 'Gary Webber Open' and fine tuned his game for grass.

On the other hand, the more famous Stella Artois 'Queen's tournament provided another regular winner, Hewitt who won firsttime in 18 months by beating James Blake. If anybody notices it, its very surprising for some reason that Queen's tournament always gave regular winners, roddick was on a 4 time spree, hewitt managed it 3 straight, and things like that.

Now onto the sad news, only got to find out yesterday but there is another grass tournament taking place, ORDINA OPEN and Mario Ancic, baby croat with a HUGE serve was playingfirst round match against a qualifier from Pakistan , Aisam ul Haq qureshi !!! By the scoreline, it must have been some phenomenal match ! 7-6 6-7 7-5 for ancic and he barely survived. Aisam sahab has always been a phenomenal player on grass and it was just plain bad luck he had to put up with mario. I hope he manages to appear for wimbledon by qualifiying.


Note from plath: apparently, aisam ul haq will only respond to the name aisam qureshi now :P and lets not forget how nadal made it to the semi's of Stella Artois, being one set all to Hewitt, and having to pull out due to injury (of which, latest news says, he has fully recovered)

AND interestingly enough, i've been checking if Aisam has qualified for Wimby. Second day of qualification and still no news of him playing qualies.