Coming Soon: Australian Open 2010
After a relatively long wait – at least for me, because anybody else would tell you that there’s tennis all year round; it’s like they never stop playing – the Australian Open is finally here. Play starts on Monday, January 18.
The seedings are out, too, and of course top seeds are world no. 1s Roger Federer and Serena Williams. The players are already in Melbourne and the official site has videos of some of the most famous of them practicing at the Rod Laver Arena - like Maria Sharapova, trading her miami beach hotels for the Australian heat to reclaim the title she wasn’t able to defend last year because of injury. Kim Clijsters, the US Open champion, has been practicing as well, while the other players are still competing in other warm-up tournaments in Sydney, Kooyong, and Auckland.
I’m bad with predictions, and most tennis players are so superstitious so I’m taking a page out their book – I won’t predict that Roger Federer will win the title, or that Justine Henin will make a comeback to rival Clijsters’ in the record books, so that I won’t jinx them, but they sure are my favorites to win. Big cheers for the first Grand Slam event of the year. It sure is going to be so much fun.
photo from the official site