“… It ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”. Remember those words? It’s from Rocky Balboa movie (2006), when Rocky told his son how winning is done. For 3 days, I saw the spirit of Rocky embodied in one man at Melbourne Park, Australia. A man from Malorca, Spain – Rafael Nadal.
When it comes to tennis, I always feel that Roger Federer is the best player ever. The Numero Uno, the number one, the greatest player the sport has ever seen. But, even at his best, this tennis great has time and time again found it difficult to beat Nadal and at Melbourne, Federer was left with tears as The Moving Wall (Nadal as described by Vijay Amritraj) proved to be difficult to crack again. It was amazing considering that Nadal was involved in another 5 hours classic battle against Fernando Verdasco two days earlier.
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As a bowler myself, I’m pleased to see that Malaysia are producing top class bowlers at senior and youth lavel. I’m still over the moon with Shalin’s breakthrough achivement of having qualified playing in the Women PBA tour and Zulmazran splendid performances in AMF World Cup recently. So, my face was all smiling to hear that our youths are doing well as well at the Commonwealth Ten Pin Bowling Championship in Belfest.:-
“Youngster Sin Li Jane emerged as the women’s Masters champion in the Commonwealth Tenpin Bowling Cham-pionships to prove her status as one of the most successful bowlers from the national back-up squad.
On Sunday, the 16-year-old became the youngest Malaysian to win the Commonwealth women’s Masters title at the Ice Bowl in Belfast. In the best-of-three games stepladder final, she defeated World Championships Masters silver medallist Jazreel Tan of Singapore 258-188, 211-269, 202-156.
With her superb efforts on the final day, Malaysia emerged as the overall champions with a medal haul of 4-3-3. The other two other gold medals were won by 20-year-old debutant Mohd Nur Aiman Khairuddin from the singles and All-Events. Aiman also proved that he was ready to challenge the big guns. Except for the Masters, where he finished fourth, Aiman had won a medal in every other event. He also set two new championship records” – The Star Online
Well done. We are proud with your achivements.
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