The Good, The Bad and The...(06/12)

The Good – Serbia

World number three Novak Djokovic and under rated youngster Viktor Troicki swept Serbia to an historic first Davis Cup title, overturning an overnight deficit to beat nine-time winners France 3-2.

Troicki, the world number 30, eased past Michael Llodra in straight sets, after Djokovic had crushed Gael Monfils in similar fashion.

"It's the best moment of my life", said Troicki, who had lost Saturday's doubles alongside Nenad Zimonjic to Llodra and Arnaud Clement, forcing his team to face a nail biting last day.

Djokovic has been in scintillating form in the Davis Cup this year, winning all six of his ties.

The Bad - Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods just can’t catch a break at the moment. After dealing with a scandal that threw his personal life into turmoil, Woods still hasn't won a tournament since the 2009 Australian Masters.

Tiger had his chance in the recent ‘World Challenge Tournament’, where he headed into the final round with a four shot lead. It seemed Tiger had the tournament at his mercy, but after three-putting on two of the first three holes, trouble once again circled the former world number one.

Capitalising on a nervy Woods, Graeme McDowell pushed the tournament into a playoff, and defeated Woods on the first hole. The defeat marked the first time in his professional career that Woods has lost a tournament when he led by three or more shots after 54 holes.

As the tournaments pass, Tiger's once magical touch seems to be unraveling, but hopefully for all sports fans this is a merely a small bump in what has been a stellar career.

The…Horrible Idea – The FFA

With our nation still grieving over the loss of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, we are seeking people to blame, and in this instance an animated kangaroo is the target.


In defence of Frank Lowy and the FFA bid team, they were clearly playing to what they thought were Australia's strengths; a beautiful country with a rich, multicultural population with a history based on running with kangaroos and catching crocodiles.

The animated kangaroo was cute, and was a good mechanism to showing off the country, but it also appeared to be slightly childish and not something appealing to a board of senior citizens.

What the bid seemed to leave out in everything were the Australian people. Nothing could promote Australia as a nation better than us.

In what was a rather dated pitch, appearances by Elle McPherson and Paul Hogan showed Australia as being still stuck in the past with nothing fresh and new to offer.

Hopefully the FFA have learnt a big lesson from this failed pitch, and the next time we throw our hat in the ring, we can truly showcase the passionate and loving country we truly are.