http://hourann.com/blog/2006/01/29/happy-chinese-new-year Hourann’s illogical blog Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://hourann.com/blog/2006/01/29/happy-chinese-new-year/comment-page-1#comment-10042 The Pencil Guy » Archive » Comet! (and some tennis ramblings) Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:20:26 +0000 http://pencilguy.dview.net/blog/2006/01/30/happy-chinese-new-year#comment-10042 [...] Unrelatedly, the Australian Open has been throwing a few surprises. The biggest of these, for me at least, was seeing Marcos Baghdatis play a weak game to lose in the second round. At first I thought that Gael Monfils was going to replace him and become, if you will, the Baghdatis of this year’s Open (Jim Courier was right to describe him as “simply entertaining” and “fun to watch”) … but then he lost his next game. Against Baghdatis he had the energy, the determination, and the spark that Baghdatis had had last year, but against the (admittedly more experienced) Gasquet, all that energy seemed to vanish. [...] [...] Unrelatedly, the Australian Open has been throwing a few surprises. The biggest of these, for me at least, was seeing Marcos Baghdatis play a weak game to lose in the second round. At first I thought that Gael Monfils was going to replace him and become, if you will, the Baghdatis of this year’s Open (Jim Courier was right to describe him as “simply entertaining” and “fun to watch”) … but then he lost his next game. Against Baghdatis he had the energy, the determination, and the spark that Baghdatis had had last year, but against the (admittedly more experienced) Gasquet, all that energy seemed to vanish. [...]

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