The first few rounds of a tennis tournament like the Australian Open are usually pretty boring. Household names pitted against never-heard-of's. The result is predictable the execution is tedious. That's what I thought I was in for last night, so halfway through the first set I switched off the Venus Williams / Carla Suarez Navarro match. Imagine my surprise when about an hour later, I turned the TV on to discover that not only was the match still going, Venus had lost the second set! So I watched the 3rd set score go from 5/2 to 5/7. The unseeded Carla Suarez Navarro had beaten Venus Williams! The great thing about watching a match like that, is that all the way through you don't believe it's going to happen, and are constantly being surprised. She's only 5ft 3in (160cm). She's a clay court baseline rallyer and her best shot is the cross court single handed backhand. When they tried to get her to do one of those wanky post match interviews, she laughed and said thanks very much but I've got nothing to say.
