Sports : life magnified

Ashish Nehra is again injured. He is perenially injured with phases when he is fit is the better way to put it. Right from the days when he had played a single test, was out of the team for some time due to injury, that Nehra has had his long term affair with the injuries.

I remember Nehra was slated to come witht the North Zone team to Calcutta for a Duleep Trophy match. He could not because of course, he was inured! A few days ago when the guy was selected again to the Indian team, I had written:

And Nehra has underperformed for most of his international career. This may well be his last chance in the one day squad but it is a chance he deserved. I think he will make the most of it.

Nehra performed well in the matches he played. Its some more anguish for Nehra and his fans.

I watched the full match and was quite impressed by what I saw. I have always been a fan of the Mirza forehand but the back hand was not too bad either in the match. Mirza always hits a lot of winners but I did not expect her to hit so many versus Sharapova. The fact that she could match Shrapova for power, break her, take games into 40/deuce was over whelming as an Indian sport fan.

So how a score line of 6-2/6-1?

The thing called experience. Mirza was horrible on the second serve. She tried to play it safe after a fault and Sharapova would attack the weak second serve. Also, the unforced errors, though much lesser than the previous games, were a bit more that feasible to win games.

This are not huge errors and can be minimised. I definitely think now than Mirza is a top 10 player in the making. Mirza is going to play in the Sunfeast Open in Calcutta from September 19th. I will go ona weekday and on the finals Sunday for the tournament, which promises to be a treat for tennis fans.