In the world of tennis Ray-ray has marched with great certainty through the Shanghai Masters, not dropping a single set. He'll be facing either The Fed or Djoko in the final, contending for his second tournament if the year. I think he needs this one. He needs something to give him a little self-belief before going into the ATP World Tour Finals. It'd be great if he could win that. Ending the season on a real high. Fingers crossed for this final though.
The Commonwealth Games have come to an end. England's total medal haul was 143. Pretty good I'd say. 37 Gold, 60 Silver and 46 Bronze. We came third overall as India pipped us to second place by winning a final Gold on the final day whilst we could get only Silvers out of our three Badminton finals. Australia won a ridiculous amount of medals. There was no catching them. Tom Daly won a second Gold for the individual diving and dedicated his wins to his father, who couldn't be in Delhi because he's going through chemo. Lovely young man that Tom Daly. Excellent teeth.
Ah, the sun is shining and blue skies prevail so I'm off out to play some tennis. Pattie Schnyder is playing Andrea Petkovic in the first of the ladies semi-finals in Shanghai. It's turning into quite the battle. Petkovic has battled her way to one set all after Schnyder was winning a set and 3-1. Now Petkovic looks well and truly to be in charge. The rollercoaster that is a tennis match.
Am reading a great book at the moment - Get Her Off The Pitch by Lynne Truss. She wrote Eats, Shoots & Leaves which is one of my all-time favourite books. She was also born in Kingston and went to Tiffin (where I did not go - too stupid to get in - but it's still in my area). Plus she was a Sports Journalist for four years. I like her a lot.
I'll keep you blogged...
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