My, my, is this going to be the year of surprising men? Tsonga, Mardy Fish, Mas Selamat, Ma Ying-jeou...
Okay, maybe Mr Ma (not the only man these days running on the ticket of 'change' and 'hope') wasn't all that unexpected, though perhaps his margin of victory was. To some. I wonder if we'll ever see the day when such election dolls (centre of picture) appear in our elections. That would be a surprise. (picture source)
Was amused to hear a Hokkien song being played at the end of Mr Frank Hsieh's thank-you speech. And noted that he graciously congratulated Mr Ma early in the speech. Plus, he said something like although this is a loss for me, it's not a loss for Taiwan. Nice.
So anyway, nice also to see Mardy Fish doing a Tsonga. Very interesting, indeed, to see these guys, seemingly coming from nowhere, packing off a string of higher-ranked players. Andy Murray, Gasquet and Nadal for Tsonga, and Hewitt, Davydenko, Nalbandian and Federer for Fish. Who would have thought... Very, very strange to see Fish, in his KSwiss outfit some more, wiping Federer out. But no surprise, of course, that Fish lost to Djokovic in the end.I wouldn't put Federer on the list of surprises at this point. The man isn't finished yet. Think he is just not feeling so well, lah, judging from how he looks rather out of sorts. It's like when Justine kept getting viral infections. She became #1 again not too long after recovering. So perhaps he will have a similar experience.
But I must note this week's surprising woman, Kuznetsova, who took out Sharapova, whom I thought looked pretty invincible this year. But again, no big surprise that Ana Ivanovic took the ladies' prize in the end.
Pacific Life pictures from here.
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