[ML]

In order to get something to talk about in English at Steve's Corner, I am going to initiate a few topics I am personally interested in.

The tennis event for this week is another Master's event at Miami. Federer, having won just 2 weeks ago another Master's event at Indian Wells, is trying to collect another title in his resume.
Since I already collected some video tapes of these two player's match before, noticably last year's Indian Well's final, I decided not to tape it at first and was expecting old routine battles. However I was quite wrong from the start, Henman obviously took some new input into his game plans. He started his service game with basically all serves directed to the body of Federer. Federer is well known for his reach in returning quick services, was having trouble to deal with this kind of body service with authority. And Henman took advantage of the weak returns of Federer, he either volleyed to the open court with authority, or ran around to hit humongous big forehand for the winner or setup for an easy put away volley or smash.
As the match went on, I wonder whether Henman forgot his own game plan of serving to the body, or Federer was too smart to have made the adjustment. Anyway, the result is that Federer's return started to bother Henman. In the end Federer broke Henman's service game three times.

Any comments are very welcome.

[Steve]

You are sure a student of the game. I occasionally watch tennis and I think Federer is an artist. I also play, mostly singles and mostly for the exercise. I assume that you are also a keen player.

[ML]

Yes, very keen on that. I watch a lot of tennis matches on TV, tape them, review them again and again, and sometimes analyze the games in my own way.