Thursday, June 23, 2011

Face Of The Day

by Craig Hickman

German player Sabine Lisicki reacts after beating Chinese player Li  Na during the women's single at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at  the All England Tennis Club, in southwest London on June 23, 2011.
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Another emotional victory for a woman on the mend. Another great match under the roof on Centre Court. The slugfest between Sabine Lisicki and Li Na didn't have quite the variety from both sides of the net as did the Venus Williams Kimiko Date-Krumm instant classic, but boy were the rallies scintillating.

The woman who was carried from the court in a stretcher in Paris outlasted the woman who won the whole thing 3-6, 6-4, 8-6 after saving two match points on her serve. Li served for the match twice. Like Serena Williams, Lisicki cried in her towel on the sidelines when it was all over.

Another player the WTA needs to keep it real is back and taking names.

Standing O.

Match Of The Day

France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, right, consoles Bulgaria's Grigor  Dimitrov after defeating him in their match at the All England Lawn  Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, Thursday, June 23, 2011.
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I wasn't able to see most of it, but from what I saw and the match reports that followed, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's four-set defeat of Grigor Dimitrov was a high-quality, dramatic affair that the crowd lapped up like cream.

Surprise Of the Day

Swedish player Robin Soderling reacts after beating  Australian  player Lleyton Hewitt during the men's single at the Wimbledon Tennis  Championships at the All England Tennis Club, in southwest London on  June 22, 2011.
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Robin Söderling rallied from two sets to love down to defeat Lleyton Hewitt. The result wasn't exactly a surprise, but the path to victory certainly was. Surely Hewitt wouldn't squander such a big lead. Surely Söderling wouldn't dig deep to beat a former Wimbledon champion on a surface he's not particularly fond of. They did. My eyebrows rose.

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