My impression on this year's Ausie Open Man's tennis

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9 g, m4 K9 X8 FWill Nikolay Darvydenko follow Marat Safin to be the next Russian Australian Open Champion ?

. U6 w5 @! K( j2 U5 ILooks like it.

The Russian won a  extraordinary 5-set match against the Spaniard Fernando Verdasco  last night.
# |  A0 B5 q- M, k2 z: M For me,  his next quarter final match with Roger Federer  will decide who is this year's champion, it is the actual championship match.

- b0 Z. S1 |* T2 O0 h6 o" gTake the fact he beat both Federer and Nadal in one tournament twice in a row  in these two months. He has a chance. We will probably see a new Champion.
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After getting rid of the tennis gambling scandal years ago, Davydenco is now a rising star, stepping firmly towards  his goal.
He is also the player that resembles  Andrew Agassi the most,
moving fast and  playing  solid baseline tennis.

4 X- g! R7 Z" j1 ^8 o7 W5 E. {. b Personally I do not like him, you can not find a flaw but there isnt any passion in his game. You should call him a robot, evertyhing is settled, programmed and manufactured. It is just a process, an iron  man on the court.
: }( B4 T! |) A4 C# Q, \ He is rigid, and plays an retrieveing style of  tennis that  is killing the sport.
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But a winner is still a winner, whether you like him or not.
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Verdasco is playing the style I like the most, full of passion, and improvised  shots. This make tennis such an enjoyable sport to watch. I still remember the last year match between him and Nadal.
What a match!
Those guys play with their soul.
The Spaniards are either bulls or the bull fighters, they fight to the end.
+ z- M$ s$ s* q6 a9 I4 y9 rVerdasco lost  the match due to too many unforce errors and double faults.
But he still  fought all the way to the end, that is heroic.
/ t5 s: ~& Z8 D! i* nThat is the spirit  of tennis.
That is the very spirits of the sport.

Cheers to Verdasco