Sports : life magnified

Bjorn Borg will sell, among other tennis memorablia, his 5 Wimbledon Trophies for financial security. Pains me immensely that his financial ventures didn’t succeed.

Meanwhile Federer and Nadal are to face each other for the first time since French Open 2005. Federer is unbeaten this year. Nadal is on a come back trial ahead of the French Open. A superb build up to a match.

Martina Hingis crashed to a 2-6, 2-6 loss against Amelie Mauresmo. Hingis’ tryst with destiny part 2 isn’t looking great. She is still new in her come back but she better start winning a few titles sooner rather than later. At least she is enjoying her self on court which is good to see. A sharp contrast to the too serious Hingis. I will write in detail on Hingis some time next week hopefully.

Meanwhile Mauresmo is one match away from reclaiming the number 1 spot. She certainly is proving the most dominant women’s player this year, already having won her first grand slam in the Australian Open in January, and not many reckon Nadia Petrova has a chance in the Doha Open final.

I wrote on how it is back to the drawing board for Australia a few weeks back. They are performing very poorly in the current series and the latest misery has been the 196 run loss to South Africa, folding up for mere 93.

Back to the drawing board indeed despite some players missing.