Troisieme Titre!

I remember seeing a video a few years back by Asha Bhonsle - one of her pathetic attempts at resinging her old songs and selling the album as Indipop. If you thought the song was bad, the video was worse. I think it features Perizaad Zorabian as the interviewer/ talk show host/ something of the sort who asks Asha Bhonsle, "Which is you favourite song of the ones you've sung?" and she replies, "Can a mother say which one of her children she likes best? How can you expect me to say which one of my songs I like best?". Terribly cheesy line. What I'm trying to say in all this beating around the bush is that I was torn between supporting Nadal and Djokovic in the semifinals of the French Open.
It was a very painful match for me. (I think I wrote the same thing when they met last year!) So
much so that after every point was over, I would cheer for the player who won the point and moan for the one who lost it. This REALLY irritated my family, but I had to do this for my two favourite players! In the end, it turned out to be a belting from Nadal, but there was tennis of great quality played by both. And I enjoyed the match in spite of my double-yelling.
The 'dream final' was something I'd look forward to since the Hamburg Masters. The whole tennis world, I guess. We were split into two groups - the ones who thought that Federer would win Roland Garros because of the psychological advantage he gained with the Hamburg Masters win, and the ones who thought that the aforementioned tournament final was simply a bad day for Nadal and that he would win the French. I belonged to the first group (Trust me, if you saw the Hamburg Masters, you would too!) but hoped and prayed that Nadal would win! And he did! It was a much closer fought match than last year's final, though. Had my loyalties not been so strong, I would certainly have enjoyed the match more than I did.
Bottom line - Nadal won, beating Federer 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and preventing him from holding all four slam titles at the same time and possibly winning the Grand Slam. So in spite of the fact that exams are fast approaching, I took a lot of time off to watch the French Open. And I plan to do the same for Wimbledon. So I'd better get a move on if I plan to finish studying in the next two weeks!