Halli, hallo
The Australian Open is history. It is now 2 hours into the night and the article on the way to Vienna.
morning, Chris and I set off towards Lakes Entrance. I am delighted that once again a bit Peace comes. We will be staying in a small cottage and make day trips to the nearby environment. The beach, however, are important, because now I have not seen before a half weeks.
Whether I will go directly towards Sydney and east coast or return to Christian to Melbourne next Saturday, I'll decide later in the week. I must now re-orient the places I really will head in the near future. That is to say, Lonely Planet will again serve as a beach read.
The next time I sign up again with charged batteries, not those times.
soon, Martin
Enclosed I send you three photos of the Open:
543 873 people came during the 2 weeks - a few of them before the Rod Laver Arena
I served after the finals defeated
Hewitt, the rest watching
And for all tennis fans. As promised, another section of the Aussie Open history:
Rocky V Lleyton Hewitt
journey into the heart of the Aussies ended with a goodbye. Rocky Balboa Ivan Drago met. The movie classic was held down under its continuation - but without the happy ending.
Actually, we should love him, yes. At sixteen he won the ATP tournament in front of his house in Adelaide, the U.S. Open with twenty, twenty-one Wimbledon. All this, with flying feet and fists. Masters wins followed, Lleyton Hewitt is the undisputed world number one - 75 weeks. And what do his fellow citizens? They elect him in between the "most unpopular athlete in the world." Bum! That was in 1999 - that year when Mike Tyson chewed an opponent's ear in the boxing ring. Lleyton is innocent then eighteen, in Tennis Australia rules the "holy St. Patrick" - Pat Rafter. Hewitt was "too small, too mama's boy, focused too much on his will" grumble, the Aussies.
That is not much different. As the Open Hewitt topless flutter trained hundreds next day at the office of the Herald Sun harsh letters from concerned mothers who who feel cheated in their educational work of the dangers of the Australian sun. When Pat Rafter just collected these ladies such newspaper cuttings, in order to create an exciting collage for the ironing room. Sunnyboy Rafter sprayed Australian "Hey, mate-take-it-easy atmosphere," Hewitt's game however, thrives on feeling of the rest of the world to fight. Even before the tournament start "Rocky" Hewitt pfauchte first time: "The surface at the Rod Laver Arena is slower than the room-service in a one-star hotel. But if need be, I win this tournament on cow dung. "Hewitt of these inventors to be hot for the great Battle. He was here to live his dream. 29 years had not won here Aussie, he never came out of the fourth round, then he reached for the stars.
"Rocky" fightete from round to round - on the way, Rebound Ace, a recycled product made of old car tires. While others served with more than 200km / h, he roared with nearly 200 decibels - "Come On". In round three so burned by Juan Ignacio Chela in the backups, who spit out his direction. When next he threw adrenaline cronies Rafael Nadal out to 1:2 sets down. It was the moment when Lleyton unmistakable knocked at the heart of the Aussies. On Australia Day David Nalbandian drove the Aussie in the corner, Lleyton was angeknockt. But with their backs to the wall is "Rocky" the most, the minute he jumped the Gaucho of the blade. The fifth set lasted 1:41, then bite Hewitt - 10:8. Twice as many Aussies prefer watching it on his fists as the national cricket team to the throwing hand - in Australia cricket crazy, a love declaration.
is one final Roger Federer played
heaven and gave it the usual earthy. His quarter-final against Agassi Gala was a hero of the game 90 against the champion of the third millennium. Who should defeat this sorcerer? No one! Six months already, since Olympia tried in vain to compete, he was undefeated for 24 games against top 10 players. It came the time when people began to look for virtual opponents for the aliens. Real opponents. "Only God can beat him now," presented Karol Beck. "If you take Roddick's service, Agassi's return, my volley, Hewitt's speed and shape into a player, then perhaps a chance against him," Tim Henman turned British dry one. Others went into the past. The comparison of the old with the new Dominator urged to: - vs. Sampras. Federer. Pete Sampras, this Executor behind an elegant facade, a victory for clinical remembered against executions Roger Federer, who shows his victims rather than that he executes with this striking beauty of his game. Sampras destroyed, created Federer. Pete had his tongue in front of each service will continue to hang from his mouth, while Roger gently sweeps a strand of hair out of sight.
much sense, no quarter
Marat Safin Pete Sampras is not, and certainly not the Almighty. He is no saint, on and off the court not - even if the times when he chopped 70 rackets a year are passé. "I've always said that the time will come when I grow up. I am calmer. "Even little sister Dinara got after their defeat against Mauresmo one serving from reason. "The train will leave without her, if she does not begin to work as serious as all the others." Marat as a moral high ground, we knew not yet: "Just sitting because only three blondes in my box, I shall be liable the image of a Party Boys on. I've never done something crazy. . I always knew when it was time to work hard, "Federer's former coach, Peter Lundgren, has advanced this process:" With him, I jumped. I listen to him because he has experience. He has taught me to believe in me. "
Marat Safin with so much gold around his neck that one might think, there are dangling all prize money earned. In his match he takes the audience on a journey between ecstasy and despair, sometimes drama, sometimes comedy. "It shows what he feels now, he says what he thinks and he does what he wants," his former coach Mats Wilander popularity Safin had once explained to the point. Safin to look is usually more exciting than movies, against Federer, it was an Oscar-worthy thriller. Federer toiled from set two bubbles, and then radiated from a pinched nerve in the playing arm. In the fourth set he had won match point, Safin the parried with a gentle praise. The fifth set was an epic battle. Safin leading 5-2, Federer countered, was held five match balls. In vain. Few minutes, Marat Safin birthday old when Federer nachhechtete the last ball. The magician was crawling on the floor, dock-Safin as the last winner, and was already in the shower, as 15 943 fans sang an impromptu birthday song. The Invincible was defeated, served the final. Lleyton "Rocky" Hewitt vs. Marat "Ivan" Safin - about this later.
Drago Rocky stops
six pounds of muscle he had built up over the last eighteen months. Even on 24 December flowed the sweat. He had covered 70 kilometers on the way to the final. You know the pictures, as has steeled Rocky Balboa for his fight against Ivan Drago - in the snowy mountains, isolated from the environment. Hewitt prepared in a similar - around Adelaide, with his clan.
seagulls circled from the nearby Yarra River on the brightly lit arena. Only they did not notice any. Because inside is avenged Marat Safin for the final two bitter defeats, he had conceded in this ring - 2002 against Thomas Johansson, 2004 against Roger Federer. "I have not lost the match, he won it," Hewitt scattered roses. Marat Safin revised this evening, the Rocky script. With all his personal style in which brute force is combined with much feeling.
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