Sunday, June 3, 2012

French Open Upset

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/sports/tennis/04iht-tennis04.html?_r=1&ref=sports
The link to the article is above. This article was about how Victoria Azarenka, the number one ranked womens tennis player, was outsted from the French open in the fourth round of play. Both the mens and women's number ones played at the same times and both had very tough matches. Djokovic, the number one for men, beat his opponent in a very close match in 5 sets. Azarenka on the other hand, lost very handily and showed frustration during the match, which is a very uncommon trait fro a world number one. Azarenka's defeat stacks the womens draw in favor of the lower ranked women who now no longer have to play the world number one to get farther in the tournament.
i chose this article because I love tennis. I've been playing tennis for 10 years now, and I love watching all of the major tournaments. Usually big upsets like this don't happen to world number ones and so when I saw this article, I thought that it was very interesting. It was a rather well written article, and I enjoyed how it gave a very good description of why Azarenka lost the match.

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