Swiss endurance!!

Whaaaaat a match, what a match to end the first week of the Autralian Open 2013! I am so proud of Stanislas Wawrinka and it's so unfortunate that he didn't win the match against Djokovic. It's not just because he represents Switzerland, it's also because most of the time I support the 'underdog'.

 

I saw the first set of the match and I was so surprised that Wawrinka won with 6-1. Both players were playing so great and kept the level very high. Unfortunately I needed to study for my exams, so I went upstairs. Every now and then I visited my twitter page to see if the match was already done, but there was no tweet to confirm that. I decided to take a break and went downstairs. To my surprise the Wawrinka and Djokovic were still playing.

 

 

And so the 5th set began. I don't know how well they played the second, third and fourth set, but again the 5th set was incredible! The score was 4-4 and Djokovic almost lost 9th game of the fifth set. Wawrinka got four breakpoints, but couldn't pull it through. Djokovic needed 10 minutes to win the 9th game, which made him lead 5-4 in the final set. I am a great tennisfan, so was praying and shouting 'come on' all the time. I don't think I'm good company when my head is in the game like that ;)

 

The tension rose to a very high level and meanwhile the score was 10-10. At a score of 11-10 Djokovic created his very first matchpoints. Wawrinka survived the first two matchpoints, but unfortunately the third matchpoint was Djokovic's lucky shot. After 5 hours Djokovic was the winner of an epic match!

I am very proud of Wawrinka and I hope he's able to pull through other matches like this. It's just a matter of time and he will be another Swiss tennislegend :) Tomorrow it's Federer's turn to shine and hopefully win the Australian Open 2013!