Thursday, September 07, 2006

Maria just keeps on winning ugly


Do you know that refrain ???
“Let me hear you say, this shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
this shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Again, this shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
This shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S “
It’s one of Maria’s fav songs. As she stated on her website, Maria likes so much Gwen Stefani and seemingly Yury took the thing very seriously indeed, advising Maria to eat a banana. Someone said “Viva la Banana libre!” Is a banana the only reason Maria won the match? Be serious. I must say Maria won ugly. It might not have been the cleanest of the matches but we have a key-factor. We all ought to acknowledge Maria’s mental toughness makes the difference. As usual. Once again she pulled it through. Maybe it's harsh, but it is true. That said, Naldo, a Canadian buddy, seems to be the guy who better analyzed the match: “Maria started off horrendous in the first 5-6 games of the match but settled down". He said. And then "Golovin knows exactly how to play Sharapova, but she still needs some improvements before she'll notch her first win over Sharapova, and MANY others to come simply because her gameplan is spot on vs Sharapova. You can see that both ladies have respect for each other and their games (Sharapova with her serves and Golovin with forcing the issue when she saw an opening). Congrats to Maria and I really do hope she goes all the way. Really proud of Tati, she played Maria much closer than I'd expected her to be quite honest. I hope this Golovin is here to stay and she can really shoot up the ranks... She ended with more winners that errors. About 1/3 of all her errors came in the first 5 games of the match!...Golovin would have made many more careless errors had she been even more aggressive than she already was and would have lost much easier that way. I think Golovin found the right balance between aggression and consistency, she just failed on the execution part when it mattered, while Sharapova was rock solid when it came down to the couple of points that decide a match”.

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