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Tennis from Indian Wells, Ca (the Paribas Open) is underway! Thank heavens Roger Federer got through today over Mathieu of France, 6-2, 7-6. It almost became more of an adventure than Fed and/or Fed fans wanted! Federer breezed through the first set and was serving for the match at 5-4 in the second when he was broken. The second set went to a tie break and Fed prevailed, 7-6. Whew…he is through into the third round. I really need Fed to keep winning as I have tickets to the fourth round and the quarters later this week! Hope to catch Fed in Indian Wells either Wednesday or Thursday evening. It looks like if this schedule holds up, it would be on Wednesday evening perhaps in the round of 16 ( I have a court side box seat!!!). Stefan Edberg is there, and his girls enjoyed watching Dad win today. Hopefully, I will get that chance later next week. OK, elsewhere, Andy Murray advanced in three sets, dropped the first set to Lucas Rosol but went on to win in three. Stan the man Wawrinka is in action as well, just getting underway against I. Karlovic (Stan wins the first set 6-3). If things go according to plan, Stan and Roger could meet in the quarterfinals. They are also playing doubles together and won yesterday to the thrill of the fans on Stadium 2! World number one Rafael Nadal will take the court on the main stadium tonight to face off against Stepanek. Also, Maria Sharapova will be in action against J. Georges of Germany. Earlier today, American Sam Querrey fell in three sets to A. Seppi of Italy. Really a shame, Sam is such a nice, laid back California guy, hate to see him not advance. Ana Ivanovic survived a scare, losing the first set in her match and then prevailing in the second and third set, very tight match. Last night, V. Azarenka went down in two quick sets to Lauren Davis of the USA. Vika does not seem to have fully recovered from a foot injury and one has to wonder should she have played this tournament? Also on the women’s side, the number one seed Li Na (world number one Serena Williams is not playing this event) advanced in two easy sets.
So, the action will continue on into the late night here on the east coast (going to get worse with the time change to daylight savings time tonight, I hate this change) and tomorrow action will resume on Tennis Channel at 1:30 EST featuring Novak Djokovic. All I can say is, I need Federer to keep on winning. I will be there next week and hope to see Mr. Federer in action live; check that off the “ole bucket list” for sure!!
GO FED!
Moving to Miami, (golf), Tiger Woods shot a round of 66 (low round for the day) to move himself right back into contention. Bad back and all, he made eight birdies (yes, eight) and Tiger now sits in fourth place, behind Patrick Reed, Hunter Mahan, and Jason Duffner heading into tomorrow’s final round. Woods will play the final round alongside Mahan. The course is not in the best of shape due to the storms the past couple of days, take Rory Mcilroy’s round of 75 today. So, tomorrow should be interesting!!
Until later…
