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The sentiment rolling over the Rod Laver Arena was so with Li Na it threatened to drown the champion, Victoria Azarenka, in righteousness. The crowd, the American and Australian TV networks – the ballkids too probably – everyone wanted the charming Chinese player to win the Australian Open, to beat the vilain du jour who had hustled the sweet American teenage prodigy Sloane Stephens out of the semi-finals Wholesale Cheap Jerseys China with her blatant gamesmanship.Yet there was something heroic about Azarenka’s achievement in retaining the title she won last year by slaying another golden girl, Maria Sharapova. This was a counter-intuitive twist that defied the power of the crowd, and one irreverently embroidered by her boyfriend, the wildly-coiffed American singer, Redfoo, who clutched the hand she reached up to him from the court in victory and uttered the heartfelt quote of the tournament: “I love you, baby – you’re fucking amazing.”The microphones picked it up, and there was duly an apology to viewers. You are not supposed to use language like that here, not in tennis, not on Australia Day, even when wrecking a fairytale. That Roger Federer had used similar language the previous night in his match with Andy Murray did not get much of an airing.If the night had gone to script, Azarenka, although No1 in the world, would not have Superbowl 2013 Apparelbeaten the sixth seed 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in two hours and 40 minutes of flawed, eventful tennis. The storyboard would have had Li getting up from a spill that wrenched her left ankle to blast the wicked witch off the court. It would then have her return from the quite preposterous Australia Day 10-minute fireworks break, tumble on the ankle again, bang her head and hang on in the third set for a heartwarming win.Tennis in China would then have roared ahead of all the other sports scrambling for the biggest untapped audience in the world and they would make a movie of her life to go with the giant posters that already dot Shanghai and Beijing.But this was real. And it was better than the pre-written script. Azarenka was better than Li, by a decent bit at www.superbowl-xlvii-jerseys.com the end. She served efficiently, at 78% on her first effort, to a poor 48% return for Li, whose unforced error count was catastrophic in the end: 57, with 30 on her backhand as her wrists failed to roll tough enough through the shot.Azarenka sobbed uncontrollably into her towel at the end, wobbled over to her coach, Samuel Sumyk, who said: “You’re a champion”, a more decorous acclamation than that of Redfoo. He grew up in posh Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles but comes from no-nonsense stock, the son of Tamla Motown founder, Berry Gordy Jnr. Vika has interesting potential in-laws, as Gordy, a would-be boxer until he found music easier, is distantly related to Jimmy Carter, through the former US president’s mother, Bessie Lillian Gordy. Had he been court-side, he could have serenaded her through her lachrymose celebrations with one of his great hits, Lonely Teardrops.And she was all alone here, apart from those Wholesale-Chinese-Jerseys close friends. It was an unseemly spectacle, seeing the crowd cheer Azarenka’s every mistake. Yes, as she admitted, “it was my bad” that she had taken a spectacularly ill-judged medical timeout against Stephens. But that was not good enough. “I was expecting way worse – but I thought Li Na played some great tennis,” she said.Azarenka fought so hard to survive in the first set, saving four set points, before throwing it away with a double fault, and the expulsion of joy in the arena was a communal snarl in her direction. It must have taken all her fortitude to ignore it – and she is not known for that quality.To that point, it was a final of emotion and ill-discipline, with seven service breaks in the first 10 games. Another followed at the start of the second, giving Azarenka rare breathing space under intense pressure.She fought against her instincts to ignore the welter of distractions that followed. Li played her part, smiling through serial bouts of adversity. In between there was some tennis, some of it not bad. I think I dealt with the situations and the ebbs and flows in Chinese Nfl Jerseys that match well. I felt much more comfortable on the court today than even I did at the US Open, so that has to be a positive.”Before the US Open [final] I was unbelievably nervous and was doubting myself a lot. I didn’t go on the court today having those doubts. I felt pretty calm from the beginning of the match. I was obviously still nervous but I felt more at home in a match like that on a court like that, playing for a grand slam title.”This, clearly, is where Murray belongs. Djokovic views the BE131ZYH future with similar confidence, although he says there are always traps on the way to finals. “It is logical in a way to expect the top four players to be the main contenders to win the [major] trophies,” Djokovic said. “But I never want to underestimate the rest of the field, the rest of the players, especially the ones in the top 10, the top 15.”I was a few points away from losing the match against [world No15 Stanislas] Wawrinka in the fourth round here.

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