Where have the divas gone??!

Wimbledon 2010... lots of memorable events. Federer failing to make the semifinal of a Grand Slam after a long long long time. John Isner and Nicolas Mahut playing that marathon 11 hour match. The women's section has been really boring though. The upsets have stopped surprising everybody because they have become so common. And as usual we have Serena Williams bulldozing her way past everybody and in yet another Wimbledon final.

Full credit to one little known Philipp Petzschner. It was a sight indeed seeing the long lost serve-and-volley game being put to such effective use. Damn it.. its good to just see someone attempt the serve-and-volley as almost everybody is content to keep putting ball after ball in the opposite court. The very essence of Wimbledon is the serve and volley. But very few playing it. That is why I Was a great admirer of Frenchman Fabrice Santoro a.k.a The Magician. That guy would attempt drop shots on the opponents' first serves'!! A brave man indeed!

Just where have the pretty faces in Womens' tennis gone?! where are the new Kournikovas? All I see nowadays are big burly Europeans with horrible grimaces and painfully loud grunts. Tennis seriously lacks the pretty faces.
Tsvetana Pironkova... the semifinalist is a pleasant enough face. As usual we have very pretty Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova. Elena Dementieva to some extent... but absolutely no drop-dead-gorgeous women. Caroline Wozniacki, the ill fated Dane who partnered Sania Mirza is one helluva nice girl. She managed to smile through the whole match. If it was me with Sania, I would have beaten her to a pulp because of the sheer number of unforced errors. Well done Wozniacki!

I remember a certain Czech player.. Likhovtseva, a leftie who was pretty good looking. Justine Henin was not too bad herself. Anyway, I hope we get to see more pretty girls playing more pretty tennis rather than big, burly, muscular women trying to tear the fur off the ball.

Keep the Serve-and-Volley alive!
May RAFA lose!