The year started promisingly enough with roger Federer winning the Australian Open and with Sachin in terrific form and from Jan - march i never imagined what sort of a horror show this year will turnout to be as far as my sporting heroes are concerned and there were no warning signs.
I was pretty happy that Schumacher returned to F1 although i didn't expect him to challenge for the title straight away. But when the F1 season started in March not only Schumi's Mercedes was off the pace but Schumi was regularly beaten by his team mate Nico Rosberg and i was shocked. Ultimately Schumacher wrote off the year and said that he is expecting that team and he will be competitive in 2011. That was the first shock.
Then Valentino Rossi who i backed to win this years title in Moto GP broke his leg and was sidelined effectively ending his campaign this year.
In May & June Roger Federer lost in French open QF to soderling ending his run of 23 consecutive Grand slam Semi Finals & again in Wimbledon to Beydrich there by ending his run of 7 consecutive finals in Wimbledon. As far as sporting disasters go Federer losing at Wimbledon to an unknown player is like a earthquake of magnitude 9 on Richter scale and needless to say it shook me completely.
But while Wimbledon was running as a sideshow because of football world cup i was pinning my hopes on Brazil to win the cup and they lost spectacularly to Holland in the QF thereby completing a disastrous year for my sporting heroes in this year till now.
There are some silver linings though in the return of Nadal and Sachin's awesome form but i am hoping that the second half of this year will turn out to be better than first half with Schumi winning some races and Fedex winning the US open.
(P.S. After Brazil lost i was rooting that Paraguay hoping that if they won Larissa Riquelme will keep her promise but they lost to Spain after a hard fought encounter. I guess by picking players and teams i am probably jinxing them. Hoping for a better second half)
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