Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Wimbledon gets Interesting

The Wimbledon championships this year has thrown a few surprises both in the men's and the women's singles. In the women's section, all the top 4 seeds have been knocked out. This is the first time in the Open era that all 4 seeds failed to make it to the last 8. Also Jie zheng became the first Chinese to reach a Grand Slam singles semifinal.
Meanwhile, the men's singles has seen an upset in Novak Djokokovic being eliminated by Marat Safin of Russia.

MEN"S QUARTERFINAL LINE-UP

Top half
:
Roger Federer
v
Mario Ancic

Marat safin
v
Feliciano Lopez

Bottom half:
R Schuettler
v
A Clement

Andy Murray
v
Rafael Nadal


The Nadal v murray match is the highlight as Murray has the crowd behind him. Rafa has to face 2 opponents in Murray and the crowd. It should also be noticed that with the support of his home crowd, Murray rallied to beat Gasquet in the previous encounter.








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