US Open and its double standards

This year I followed US Open meticulously all night. Since, I stay in another part of the world, all the way in India, I had to be awake all night and sometimes watch it the next morning. Watching Melanie Oudin, Wozniacki, Clijsters, Nadal, Monfils, Isner, Serena, Roger and particularly, Del Potro was amazing as they won every match with style and class. I am particularly awake from last 24 hours with 8 hours of work, 5 hours of journey in between. All this for what? Dissapointment?

Today, just about 30 minutes back, Juan Martin Del Potro, aged 20, beat the greatest Tennis champion of all time, Roger Federer in a 5 setter. It was amazing to watch how one could just go out there and play against Roger and win. I am not denying that even I wanted Roger to win. I did. But watching Juan Martin winning the championship was equally good.  As Linkin Park puts it, In the end it doesn’t even matter! The presenter from USTA (United States Tennis Association) horribly denied insulting Juan Martin, to say the least, a chance to speak in Spanish in one of the greatest moments of Juan’s life. While a grandslam win itself is a major event in one’s life, beating Roger in his first ever grandslam finals could only be described as the penultimate event and the presenter did not have the basic courtesy to speak politely to the winner. The presenter announced $1.2 million and another 6o0 thousand dollars resulting a total of $1.85 million dollar as though it was a dog’s meat! Who cares god damn it? I really wish Juan Martin would have rejected it but then it was his first grandslam ever, so I wouldn’t have wished for it. I can only say that US Open would have found a better presenter in remote village of Afghanisthan selling meat with better courtesy than that moron who f**ked up the entire sweetness of such a great tournament. In the end, it’s a grand shame to US Open to say the least.