Foot Fault!

So, I’ve been slowly cutting off this blog as the exams approach, but today I finally said ‘fuck it’ and will continue to post here even as I fail my exame. It’s the only thing keeping me sane, anyway.

As you should know by now, Stuttgart finished on Sunday and the final saw the upset of the tournament as hometown girl Julia Goerges took out Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets to capture the biggest, and undoubtedly most special, title of her career.

To say the first set was weird would be an understatement. While Wozniacki was crap from the word go, Goerges alternated between serving brilliantly and smashing winners from all over the court in her service games, to setting up points then missing so many of the most embarassing misses ever witnessed in one tennis match. Quickly, we had a tiebreak. Wozniacki continued to play passive, lifeless tennis, while Goerges finally broke free of those nerves and whatever they were, easing through the tiebreak with some gigantic winners.

That first set seemed to free Gorge from then on, as she broke in Wozniacki’s first game, and never looked back. As usual, Wozniacki’s level did rise as the finish line approached, but by that time Julia was never going to lose the match. She held to love in the penultimate game and then eased through her last game to capture the Porsche and the title, fittingly with a huge unreturnable serve out wide.

It’s quite a shock, but I couldn’t be more happy for Julia. I’ve always been quite a fan, but during the press conference she just charmed us all with her bubbly and lovely personality – always laughing, always smiling and she always had the time and courtesy to look us all in the face and give each and every person she spoke to her full and undivided attention. She said afterwards;

“I had goosebumps at match point. It was an unbelievable feeling playing the final with so many people watching,”
“Everything was going so well but you can never be sure against Caroline. She has turned lots of matches around when nobody expected her to. She is only beaten when the last point is over. Now I’m looking forward to my niece’s baptism on Monday and being able to sleep in my own bed again after three months traveling the tour!”

Love it.

Also, the video is worth checking out if only for her dad who was going craaay after every point. And I don’t blame him one bit – what a great achievement.