One winner but two champions

So this afternoon I made a huge mistake. The Wimbledon final had just began and I decided to take a nap, although I must admit it was a good one and a much needed one. Nonetheless I somehow got woken up halfway through to be told that Roddick was two sets up to love and to my dismay I believed that he was on his way to his first Wimbledon title and that my predictions for both of the finals were well and truly beaten. As good as Roger is it is hard for any player to come back from two sets down and the way Andy has been playing of late I couldn’t see a way back, but low and behold I woke up about two hours later only to see Roger lifting the trophy aloft. A five set thriller that was said to top last years final. I was grieved, how could I miss something so incredible.

I came in just as Roger was interviewed but apparently Roddicks speech was very respectful and you have to feel for the man after he went down to Roger for the 19th time while only coming on top twice. He must have felt so frustrated after the fight he put up only to end up in a place he felt so familiar with, but the way he reacted congratulating Roger and not grieving his own misfortune shows true testimony to the man and even though he has not won Wimbledon I believe he is a sportsman to look up to and is definitely a yank that I will support in the future.

Nobody expected Andy to win, even the players were sure that Roger would come up trumps once again and he did, but I’m sure nobody would have expected it to happen that way. This years final was as close as a tennis match can come and those who wrote off Andy so quickly can eat their words. He is as good a tennis player as any and one that I see a lot of Roger in and I wish the both of them the best of luck in their futures.

Meanwhile you may not have heard it a week ago but Lote Tuqiri has been dumped from the Wallabies after some brawl he got into at a club after already being cautioned about his misbehavior in another similar incident that happened previously.

Lote was due to carry on with his five year contract until 2012 but with the end of it comes the end of his dream to win the world cup with his team in 2011. Instead apparently he may be heading off to play overseas as Australia’s clubs aren’t likely to have the kind of money to keep him at home.

Apparently there’s a bit of talk that ARU chief John O’Neil played a hand in the matters but of course with most background events it is likely we won’t learn the truth. Whatever happens rugby players do get away with a lot that they shouldn’t and finally one of them has been handed more than just a slap on the wrist for it. Maybe this will finally clue them up that they are the same as us and there are still repercussions for their actions and now maybe we wont hear as much about which player hit who at some nightclub.