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Team USA was oh, so close yesterday to a win over Portugal, ended up in a bittersweet tie at 2-2 and they are still alive and will face the powerful German team on Thursday. With under five minutes left, Dempsey did it AGAIN! He scored and put Team USA up 2-1. Surely, we were going to win and advance…but not so fast. Portugal scored to break our hopeful hearts…it was not Ronaldo although he did make the pass…and Team USA will play Germany for the right to advance into the round of 16. This World Cup action is awesome!!
Wimbledon got underway today and the defending champion, Andy Murray took Center Court to start play (as is the tradition) much to the delight of the British crowd. He won in three sets and looked very strong. Also looking very strong, Novak Djokovic (seeded #1, yet Rafa is ranked #1?) who won eleven straight games over Golubev before finally dropping one game. He prevailed, 6-0, 6-1, 6-4. Berdych needed four sets, Tsonga is still playing a five set match and it will continue tomorrow along with some other matches because guess what, it began to rain in London! Fognini won in a contentious five set match, thank heavens that one got completed as it appeared he just might go head to head with the official at one point. Cooler heads prevailed as did Fognini in the fifth, coming back from two sets down. Li Na was a two set winner today as was Victoria Azarenka. Li Na struggled in the first set and Azarenka struggled in the second set. Both through, however, and really glad to see Vika back and playing well after being out for three months with a foot injury. In her post match interview, I believe she said we could expect Redfoo to arrive on Saturday (her boyfriend and lead singer of LMFAO). Also very happy to see Venus Williams win her opening match, a three set victory as Venus is playing in her 17th Wimbledon!
Dimitrov won impressively in three sets and he looks like he could possibly challenge the Big Four? I don’t know however, only six players have played in the men’s final at Wimbledon in the past decade, the current “Big Four”, Berdych and Andy Roddick. Nadal won in 2010, Djokovic in 2011, Federer in 2012 (it was glorious) and last year of course, the drought ended for the British as Murray won in 2013, Speaking of Mr. Federer, he will begin his Wimbledon quest tomorrow on Court 1 (really, not Center Court, he has won seven Wimbledon titles…oh well,) and he will be followed by Maria Sharapova (the tenth anniversary of her 2004 Wimbledon title) and then E. Bouchard of Canada. On Centre Court, Sabine Lisicki will start the action as she was the runner up last year to M. Bartoli who has since retired. Then Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams will follow. Going to be a great two weeks of tennis! World Cup action continues as well…USA! USA!
Tonight on TNT at 10:00 pm EST the great new series Murder in the First continues!
Until later…
