Heroes rising...

Nowadays it's been all sports when I go back home via Comcast cable. Yesterday, I saw two greats put to test for a while before they eventually showed up the best.

First it was Federer, playing against big serving Feliciano Lopez(ESP). Earlier round, Lopez was playing teenager Young(USA) and was not that impressive. So I thought it will be simple for Federer. But I was wrong. Lopez's strategy is to go for what he thought is his strength - the serve and was serving big, even second serves going for 115mph. This made Federer impossible for breaking his serve, but was broken himself and lost the first set 3-6. And in the next set it was the same story, with Lopez easily holding the serve while Federer hustling to hold his. It was until 5-4 and Lopez serving @ 15-30 that I saw first of Federer's himself that day. It was a passing backhand winner and then it was Federer's all the way(except 0-40 start in third set) Federer then won 35 straight points in his serve that is more than 8 games without conceding a point, and had enough chances to break Lopez to win the match. Typical Federer raising the game and leaving the opponents drained of any confidence. Score : 3-6 6-4 6-1 6-4 Fed.

Next it was HHH in Monday night Raw. When roommate Sumit claimed it was kiddish to watch WWE, and most of us know its all unreal, it is still fun to watch. And HHH being a villain once against the people's champ 'The Rock',he is now a hero. And when he was performing his blood ripping illegal hits as a villain, we hate him, but now being a hero we enjoy it. Even in movies, hero won't use weapons as villains do.

The match was a handicapped one- Carlito and umaga Vs HHH. But just few minutes into the match, umaga lost temper and entered into the ring and both started hitting HHH out. Match was called off, but they were still hitting HHH. After a few bad hits, umaga posted a chair on the turn buckle, let Carlito hold HHH against it and came running in, to jam HHH against the turnbuckle. But HHH moved and Umaga hit the chair. At this point, if it were other heroes, like, say Rock, they would have hit back with legal shots although the match is officially over. But it was HHH - he picked up the chair, hit Carlito who fled away, and then on Umaga's head. But Umaga wasn't giving up and he was trying to stand erect although he was hit every time. After 3-4 hits, HHH stopped, nodded his head went out and picked up his weapon - the metal hammer and hit him on the head leaving umaga in bloodshed.

Two comebacks - I enjoyed both.