AO 08

It was 14th of January when we casually dropped off to a friend's house for lunch and switched on the TV. A tennis match was being telecasted on one of the channels. Thats when somebody remembered.. 'Oh , the Australian Open was supposed to start today.' In lieu of the rendezvous with Indian cricket and Indian women's hockey team prior to that, everyone had almost forgotten about it. The match turned out to be a marathon(Jankovic v/s Paszek ), and we watched it till the very end.

What it triggered was two long weeks of amazing tennis. It was first time that I had followed a Grand slam so closely; and it seemed worth the time. I kinda wished there was enough representation from India as well.

Hats off to all Serbian players. For a small country that they are, they are producing sensational quality of tennis players, each of them was an eye-candy to watch. Federer v/s Tipsarovic, for me was by all means, the best match I've ever seen.

As much did I enjoy the tennis, the final stint by Djokovic, was more than perfect end to the tournament, which ended in his much deserved victory. "Its ok. I still love you guys." is a line thats going to go down in history books. At least I wont forget it. And probably so would the millions of fans that he made in that one moment; perhaps even more than what he made by playing or impersonations itself.

I savored it so much that I've finally executed today the long-in-a-pipeline-plan of buying a tennis raquet. I won my first singles-set today. Watch out, Djok !

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