Olympics Update: Tennis Semis and Qtr finals

Finally caught tennis last friday. It was a perfect day, the sky was blue and cheerie, the weather wasn't too hot. Thanks to Lawrence who got me the ticket! Here he is standing on a dustbin taking pictures of federer... We were locked out cos the court was full.

This was what he took. Federer already lost the singles, so he's playing doubles.

Although the tickets weren't centre court - where Nadal was playing, i still saw a bunch of the big names - Serena and Venus Williams, Davenport and of course federer. I didn't know any other players.

First Match- Serena/Venus Williams versus 2 jap girls. Don't know the names but we supported the japs cos they were the underdogs. But it was no fight la. them williams took 2 games and won the match in less than 2 hrs.

This is one of the jappo's ..

The sisters are discussing strategy here. They like to cover their mouth when they talk. Scared the japanese can hear wht they say
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2nd Match- Sweden versus France. Initially i couldn't decide where my loyalties lie. First it was the swedes cos they had better uniform (black and white), and then after 1 hr i changed to France cos one of the players (Michael Llodora) was so freaking good that i developed an immediate affiliation.

There he is. Man of the match.

The match after sweden vs france was Federer n his unknown partner (this may not sound right i know). But i couldn't wait cos the S vs F match lasted for 4 hr and 40 minutes! the score went up to 17/19!! i was already 3 hrs late for my appointment. Yeah, so i gave up an opportunity to watch Federer in action.

But it was all really fun. Thoroughly enjoyed myself.

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I just had a conversation with a girlfriend about whether or not we'd date someone like him... to which she said "He may come first before we do!". HAHA.