The week that was - Ending 05/05/2005

Hi bloggers,

It’s been a while since I’ve put up a new post. Have been quite busy actually. Firstly my computer broke down. Then I was away on training for a week. In between all that, managed to catch up on Wimbledon matches, Confederations Cup, Nat West trophy & F1 to name a few.

No surprises however like the last time. Federer won Wimbledon. Maybe next year he should play blindfolded. The odds on him winning still will not be too large I think. He absolutely dismantled each and everybody along the way. What must irritate his opponents would be the fact that he won every match without breaking into a sweat.

Also Bhupathi – Pearce won the Mixed Doubles Finals. Great show by them. From being an unseeded team to win the finals of Wimbledon is really glorious.

Brazil won Confederations Cup. Good revenge for them after the 3-1 drubbing they received months earlier at the hands of the other finalists i.e. Argentina. However, both the teams were very scratchy on their way to the finals particularly Brazil. However, in the finals the moment Adriano scored the first goal the fate of the match was sealed.

Great news for England though. They showed brilliant fight back abilities to get a tie after coming back from the dead to jointly win the Nat West trophy. They displayed a strength of character hitherto attached only with the Aussies. Reminded me of India’s win over England in the same tournament couple of years back. This year’s Ashes might throw up quite a few surprises methinks.

Last but definitely not the least, the French GP. Firstly it was a relief to see 20 cars on the race track. Alonso was deservedly a winner. To lead from start to finish in a race definitely takes some doing. Wonderful performance by Kimi too. To come from 13th in the grid and claim a second position and consistently going faster than Michael Schumacher in no mean feat.

Michael was stuck behind Trulli for such a long time enabling Alonso to get away to a huge lead very comfortably. Michael should have tried a bit harder to get past trulli and catch up with Alonso in the first few laps.

What pained me most was to see Ferrari being out thought on strategy by Mclaren. Also, Ferrari needs to pull their act together and fast if they are going to have any semblance of a chance of winning the constructors this year. At this moment, the chances of the same are looking very bleak indeed.

Enough has already been said about Ferrari and Bridgestone not being up to the mark this season. Michael now needs to be a put his head down and just use his driving skills to make a difference to a race. After all he is not the greatest driver of this era just because of having only a wonderful piece of machinery. As the saying goes, “When going gets tough, the tough get going”.

C’mon Michael, u can and will make a difference. Millions of Tifosi are looking forward to you for the same.

Forza Ferrari. Arrivederci competition. (I hope I got the spelling right). Until next time, astalavista baby.