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Roland Garros 2007.

I miss those days when there were NBA matches, Tennis Grand Slams matches, F1 races, EPL and Serie A on Ch 5. These days, you will need to subscribe to SCV sports channels to watch it. The only nice sports program you can catch from our national broadcaster are soccer highlight shows. I ain't a big fan of golf or S-League soccer...

These couple of weeks, I am missing the fabulous Roland Garros - The French Open. Yeah, the famous event which Michael Chang won at 17 in 1989. Yesh, I am still stuck in the days of Pistol Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi cuz they stopped showing tennis on TV. Ms KC-XTT stirred up my interest in tennis again, telling me how nice the matches were. The moaning with every serve! The groaning with every volley! The ACES! Think PRINCE OF TENNIS Ryoma and Tezuka! Urghs... Luckily there is the fantastic Roland Garros official site. Great work by the IBM team!


The highlight of this site is probably the live update of the scores of every match!


The updates are real time! You can navigate each court for the scores,


or check the score summary page. The latest points scored appear in black for a second after it is updated! There is even the statistic of the speed of the last serve.


And the best thing is the live commentary of the matches! Ha ha. That's the closest I can get to the Roland Garros... But its a far cry from watching the matches... Hopefully there'll be live videocast next time! Hmmm does anyone know where can I watch it free online? They have all the other channels at Choose and Watch but just no tennis. =( There may be a Nadal vs Federer final coming up! Don't want to miss that!

I am also hoping for live telecast of the Euro 2008 matches online next year. I don't think we'll get to watch it on the free-to-air (actually its not free considering we pay TV tax every year) channels. I would rather they air more sports shows than those crappy reality shows.

Update: Finally got to watch the Final Nadal vs Federer on ESPN Vivo thru' SopCast!!!
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