"Wimbledon 2005 Recap"

The tennis world is back in order after Roger Federer's domination of Wimbledon yet again. There were actually living and breathing so called tennis analysts out there who were doubting King Roger after his semifinal losses in both the Australian and French Opens. Put him on grass though and he's next to unbeatable. Meanwhile it took exactly four matches for the French Open winners (Nadal and Henin-Hardenne)and one of the finalists (Puerta) to be bounced from the tournament. It makes Bjorn Borg's accomplishments at Wimbledon all the more impressive. Andy Roddick gave one of the better post match interviews in recent memory after the final with Federer. For all of Lleyton Hewitt's moaning and crying over Roddick's number two seeding while he (Hewitt) was seeded third it still remains the correct order of things. In the past three years only Federer has beaten Roddick on grass. Had we had a Roddick-Hewitt semifinal it still would have been Roddick against Federer in the final. Roddick had better plan on drinking plenty of beers because there is no way he will beat Federer on grass with the liability he calls a backhand.

For the Huddled Masses it was an OK tournament. Max Mirnyi made it into the fourth round before being taken out by Thomas Johansson. Ivan Ljubicic lost in the first round and has been dropped from the Jerry Rules rankings. Fernando Gonzales attains hero status after advancing to the quarters. The Bryan Boys make it to their fourth major final in a row and for the fourth straight time come out the runner-ups. For whatever reason they cannot avoid choking in the big one.

I am going to try and maintain as positive an outlook on the reemergence of Venus Williams as I can. Her victories over Maria Sharapova and Lindsay Davenport were indeed exciting tennis to watch. When she is on (as she was in these two matches) she is capable of beating anyone. Unfortunately, along with the great tennis, we were subjected to her nauseating celebration after the final. In contrast to the quiet dignity of Federer we were forced to watch Williams's juvenile display of how many times she could jump up and down. Thank goodness for the off switch on my TV. As sister Venus showed us how to win without class so did Serena show how to lose without class. After her third round loss to Jill Craybas it was just b*tch and moan, b*tch and moan. Just once I would like one of them to give credit to their opponents after defeat. All in all, I thought that was pretty positive. Not near as bad as I thought it was going to be.