Olympics Tennis...

been following the tennis matches...
so far could only catch a couple of matches...
and check the rest of the results from the Beijing Olympics official website...

last night was watching the match between American Venus Williams and Chinese Li Na...
as much as i would like to see Venus triumph in the competition (she won the Gold medal in Sydney 2000), it would be nice for the host country to have a player in the semi-finals...
Zheng Jie, the recent sensation at Wimbledon 2008, has already crashed out of the tennis competition earlier...
so Li Na, the unseeded player, is China’s only hope in the women’s single Gold medal...
in the end, Li Na managed to pull through from a 0-3 down from the beginning of the match to beat Venus 7-5, 7-5...
Venus went out of form in the middle of the match, just like Roger Federer did earlier in his match against James Blake...

the Russian ladies on the other hand, has at least two players in the semi-finals and at least a silver medal...
Vera Zvonareva and Elena Dementieva (who beat the other Williams sister, Serena, in an earlier match)...

my favourite male player on the tour, Rafael Nadal, has reached the semi-finals of the game...
hope he wins the Gold medal...
it will be the perfect icing on the cake after winning the French Open and Wimbledon this year...
and further boosts his chances at winning the final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open...
but no matter what happens, he will be the new world number 1 from next week...
dethroning Roger Federer from the seat that he has been occupying for the last few years...