We had a dramatic and historic French Open 2012

This year, we had the most dramatic and historic French Open. So many records were there to be broken by the finalists in the Men’s Singles and the Ladies’ Singles Final.

To start with, my heartiest congratulation goes to Maria Sharapova and her coaching team on winning this year’s Ladies’ Singles title. With this, she also becomes only the 10^th lady to have a Career Grand Slam, incredible effort indeed. To top it, the icing on the cake, comes the No. 1 Ranking which she will be awarded when the new rankings are released. Critics will argue that this win came at the expense of a relatively easy/unknown opponent – Errani, but a win is a win nonetheless. The towering Russian won 6-3, 6-2 against Sara Errani.

If the Russian beauty was on a roll, then how can the Spanish Bull, Rafael Nadal be left far behind. The King of Clay won his 7^th French Open title, to surpass Bjorn Borg. A record which I can’t foresee getting broken easily.

He beat the Serb, Djokovic 6-4 6-3 2-6 7-5, a great display of power and determination.

Good news for the Indian fans also, with Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi being crowned the mixed doubles champions, defeating Santiago Gonzalez and Klaudia Jans-Ignacek 7-6(3), 6-1. This is the second Grand Slam title for the Indian pairing, who won the Australian Open in 2009.

It’ll be a monkey off the back for Mahesh as well, because finally, he has won the Mixed Doubles with same partner twice, that happens to be Sania. Prior to this his success, in Mixed Doubles, he was bench-marked with all different partners.