Weekend Sporting Recap

Haven’t done one of these in a while but it was a big weekend of sport so I thought it was worth spending some time on.

Friday night was tough watching for us Federer tragics. It’s hard to imagine he’ll ever have a better chance to win one last major. As has been the case for so many slams over the past four years it was a case of so close but yet so far. On to the US Open and another inevitable heartbreak!
All the more frustrating given the way Murray dished up Raonic in the final. Let’s just hope Scotland leaves the UK so we can retrospectively back-date the continuation of England’s Wimbledon drought.
Serena Williams’ record is even more ridiculous than you probably think. She won her first major SEVENTEEN years ago! In addition to her 22 grand slam singles titles, she’s also won 14 doubles titles, 2 mixed doubles and four Olympic golds. There’s a chance that the Djoker could catch Fed but he’s never catching Serena.

Only nine months on from a thoroughly encouraging World Cup, Australian rugby is now firmly back in the doldrums. Not only did England rout is 3–0 at home, over the course of the most recent round of Super Rugby, the Kiwi teams beat the Aussie teams 203–63 across four games. That’s a paddlin’.
You know it’s a boring AFL season when headlines are getting dominated by a vaguely described feud between a player’s mum and his girlfriend. I just hope Kieren Jack holds himself better than Mitchell Johnson did last time there was a story like this.
I got up to watch the final of the Euro this morning and regretted it. Football can be beautiful but it can also be excruciatingly dull. This morning was the latter. Congrats to Portugal who despite having the tournament’s best player until his unfortunate injury this morning, progressed through the whole tournament by boring their opponents into submission.
For all the hype, it seems as though UFC200 was a bit of a fizzer. Obviously Jon Jones getting rubbed out for drugs robbed the card of a marquee name but even without that, I can’t imagine all but one fight going to judges’ scorecards was the result they were hoping for. They’ll be relying on the Conor McGregor hype train to pick up the pieces and carry the brand for the next couple of months.
The combination of a predictable result, the lack of an Australian contender and getting up early for work has meant my interest in the Tour de France has declined dramatically. Am I right in saying that Wiggins has it in the bag?
The sharks are leading the NRL and have won their last 13 games in a row? How did that happen? Weird shit happens when you stop paying attention…

Let me know what you think. Did I miss anything?

Jez