Netherlands Vs. Uruguay match in FIFA World Cup 2010 was nothing less than oozing dose of fun and excitement here at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town on Tuesday. The Oranje started as favorite and succeeded in getting their ticket booked for the upcoming finals on July 11th in the FIFA WC tournament. Netherlands beat Uruguay by 3-2 and believe it or not the Bert van Marwijk’s side were worthy of the victory. The Netherlands reached their first FIFA World Cup finals in last 32 years.

The Dutch started the Netherlands Vs. Uruguay semi final match in a good spirit and started dominating Uruguay in the very fourth minute of the game. But Uruguay managed to recover from the attacking Dutch and somehow tried to keep the Oranje at bay. The threat from the Dutch side that Uruguayans could not predict was coming in the form of Van Bronckhorst when he picked the ball over 30 yards from goal and unleashed a stunning left-foot shot and gave a magnificent strike. As the match half progressed even Uruguay team conjured a goal and the Dutch were punished for providing a 25 yards space to Forlan who turned inside on his left foot and curled a superb left-foot shot, an equalizer before half time.

The second half of Netherlands Vs. Uruguay FIFA World cup 2010 semi final started with the Uruguayans looking more threatening, but Dutch kept their patience intact and were denied another attempt by Robben who was unable to gobble up the rebound, blazing over from an acute angle. But a couple of minutes later it was Sneijder who benefiting from a deflection off Pereira thighs sent a 20 yard spinning past Muslera, it was second from the Dutch camp and was a cause of worry for the Uruguayans who has just 17 minutes left to react and come again.

The Dutch head to Johannesburg for their first shot at the soccer championship in 32 years after a 3-2 victory over scrappy but outmanned Uruguay on Tuesday night. “We are so close,” said Wesley Sneijder, who scored the go-ahead goal. “There is nothing bigger than the World Cup.”

That elusive first title is still one win away. But this was such a moment to savor that most of the squad made a curtain call nearly an hour after the biggest Netherlands victory in decades, leading about 1,000 orange-clad fans in cheers that figure to last until Sunday.

That’s when the Dutch will play either Spain or Germany for soccer’s big prize. “If you win the final, you make yourself immortal, at least in our country,” said Arjen Robben, whose winner came three minutes after Sneijder scored. “We will do everything we can to take the Cup back.”

It’s hard to doubt them, with the Dutch on a 25-game unbeaten streak, including 10 straight wins. They’re not as creative as the Clockwork Oranje of the 1970s, when they lost two World Cup finals to host teams West Germany in 1974, Argentina in 1978. Nor are they as explosive.

But they sure are good, and on the kind of roll that gives the Dutch the look of champions with an Oranje hue, of course.

Serena Williams persists her climbing of grand slam ladder and the last step she forwarded with the Wimbledon 2010 title beating Vera Zvonareva

Vera Zvonareva battled, scrapped, tried everything she could and still it was nowhere near enough. An utterly dominant Serena Williams duly won her fourth Wimbledon title with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over the Russian to secure grand-slam title No 13, a cheque for £1m and prove yet again that she is by far the best player in the women’s game.

Her victory moved her above her fellow American Billie Jean King into sixth place in the all-time list of grand-slam champions and though the record of 24 held by Margaret Court looks a long way off, if she stays fit over the next few years, Martina Navratilova’s tally of 18 may be within reach.

“Hey Billie, I got you – that’s 13 for me now,” Williams said to King, who had watched from the Royal Box.

Zvonareva was just the third Russian woman to make it to the final here – Olga Morozova was the runner-up in 1974 and Maria Sharapova beat Williams to win the title in 2004 – but despite everything that Zvonareva had accomplished in reaching her first grand-slam final, beating the US Open champion Kim Clijsters in the quarter-finals, the final had an air of inevitability that even the Russian must have felt. Williams had not dropped a set on her way to the final and only two women, Sharapova in 2004 and Serena’s sister, Venus, in 2008 had got the better of her in a Wimbledon final. As Navratilova said: “All things being equal, Serena will win.”

Nine aces from Williams took her total for the tournament to a Wimbledon record 89 and it was the serve that kept Zvonareva pinned on the back foot, never allowing her to get the first strike that might have let her gain confidence.

Meanwhile Rafael Nadal in Men’s Single beat 12th seeded Czech born Tomas Berdych in three straight sets to bag the Wimbledon 2010 title. Currently rated number one in the world Nadal commanded the tennis court with his stunning performance and finished the match after two hours and thirteen minutes notching up the three sets win 6-3 7-5 6-4.

This was a remarkable comeback for the Spanish born Nadal who was injured last year and consequently had to miss Wimbledon although he showed no signs of any problems today and even did a somersault after the match was completed to show how delighted he was to have won the coveted trophy.

This means that Nadal has now won one title at the Australian Open, five French Opens and with todays victory two titles at Wimbledon. Considering that Nadal is only 24 years old it looks pretty clear that if he keeps up his current performance level then he has plenty more titles to win in the coming years.

Suddenly, it’s 2006 all over again in Germany. Fans are turning out in the tens of thousands on the streets of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and elsewhere to watch what is surely the best German soccer team put together in the past quarter-century.

That team, in a performance as devastating as it was comprehensive, demolished Argentina, 4-0, on Saturday to sweep into the semifinals of the 2010 World Cup.”They did what we knew they were capable of doing,” said downcast Argentine forward Carlos Tevez.

“I feel like I have been hit by Muhammad Ali,” said Diego Maradona, Argentina’s coach. Striker Miroslav Klose scored two of the goals, bringing his haul in three World Cups to 14, tying the German record held by Gerd Mueller and leaving Klose only one goal shy of the World Cup record of 15 held by Brazil’s Ronaldo.

Forward Thomas Mueller, no relation to his namesake, scored once and so did defender Arne Friedrich. Germany took the lead in the third minute and never looked back. It was a motivated and tactically flawless performance, one that was unreservedly praised by Coach Joachim Low.

“What the team showed in terms of determination to win was the sort of thing you would expect from champions,” Low said. “It was absolute class.” Indeed, Germany, with its fast-paced and fluid style, served notice that it is the side to beat now that the two South American powers, Argentina and Brazil, have been eliminated.

Certainly, the Netherlands, Spain and Uruguay will have something to say about that, but none of those other semifinalists have managed to bang in 13 goals while giving up only two.

Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, had predicted victory on Saturday and so had Paul, the prognosticating octopus.

Merkel, who had hardly settled into her seat at Green Point Stadium before Thomas Mueller gave Germany the lead after 180 seconds, said it would be 2-1 in favor of the Mannschaft.

Paul, from his tank in the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, had not provided a score, but he appeared even more confident of victory than Merkel.

“I didn’t start to feel good about it until we went ahead, 4-0,” the chancellor said. Considering that the final goal, Klose’s second, came in the 89th minute, Merkel should have been comfortable by then, but politicians, unlike octopi, are a cautious lot.

Germany’s victory, which sent it on to play Spain in Wednesday night’s semifinal in Durban, was the result of meticulous planning by Low and his coaching staff.

Low had said beforehand that he had spotted a weakness in Argentina’s team, but did not elaborate. In the game, the weakness became apparent — gaping holes in the South American side’s midfield that the Germans were quick to exploit.

Low also found a novel way to motivate his players. Before the 4-1 rout of England in the second round and again before Saturday’s match, he showed them videos of German fans celebrating in the streets, just as they had done during the run to third place in the 2006 World Cup when Germany staged the tournament.
“It was a girl who had suffered and felt pain, been in seven foster homes,” she told USA Today. “She doesn’t let her past make her a victim. And that to me was so appealing.”

In the first photos released from the film, Aguilera sports a satin bustier while reclining on an ottoman and performs in a skimpy gold number against a massive backdrop of acrobatic dancers and the word “burlesque” in lights.

Though the petite blond bombshell is known for her raunchy lyrics and risqué dance routines, this is the first time she will be acting. Steven Antin, the movie’s director, called her a “freak of nature” because she got the acting part down so fast.

Cher helped Aguilera make the transition to the big screen. “I love no-bulls— women, and she’s the best of the best,” Aguilera said of the singer and actress, “an original trendsetter in her time and a legend in mine. I found her kind and warm. She had helpful advice and stories for days.”

For decades Spain has approached the World Cup the same way most high school freshmen approach algebra. They’ll go ahead and give it a try, but they don’t expect great results.

In the last 60 years, Spain has gone to the tournament 10 times. And seven times they came home after the first or second round. Once they entered as the reigning European champions yet managed to win only one game.

But all that history is, well, just history now. Because after Saturday’s hard-fought 1-0 win over stubborn Paraguay, Spain has advanced to the World Cup’s final four for the first time since 1950, when the tournament had just 16 teams.”This represents a great moment for Spanish football,” Spanish Coach Vicente del Bosque said.

Probably the best moment because the Spanish are once again European champions. For most of the last two years, they’ve been ranked No. 1 in the world and they won all 10 of their matches in World Cup qualifying, part of a 35-match unbeaten streak that stretched over nearly three years.

And now, thanks to David Villa’s foot and a soft goalpost, Spain is just a win away from the World Cup final. Of course it will take a win over Germany to get there, but we’ll get back to that in a bit. Let the Spaniards celebrate first.

“To be among the four best teams in the world is something really special,” said midfielder Andres Iniesta.

Especially when you consider Spain really hasn’t played a good game since it got here, losing to Switzerland in group play before beating Honduras and Chile, then barely slipping by Portugal and Paraguay by identical 1-0 scores in the elimination rounds.

But Saturday the problem wasn’t Spain, Del Bosque said. It was Paraguay.

“They made us very uncomfortable,” he said. “That’s to their credit.”

Paraguay, after all, was making history too, although it took a strange route to get there. Appearing in the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time ever, Paraguay arrived undefeated despite having gone nearly 2½ games without a goal. Then again it hadn’t given up a goal since its first game in group play three weeks ago — and both streaks nearly came to an end in a three-minute span early in the second half when both teams wound up taking penalty kicks.

Paraguay went first after Spain’s Gerard Pique grabbed the arm of Oscar Cardozo with both hands, pulling him to the ground in the penalty area. After an especially long pause to gather himself, Cardozo approached the ball tentatively and wound up being foiled when Spanish keeper Iker Casillas guessed correctly, diving to his left and right into the path of the shot.

Spain immediately pushed the ball up the field and got its own chance at a penalty kick — two chances actually — after Paraguay’s Antolin Alcaraz knocked Villa down from behind near the goal. Xabi Alonso took the shot for Spain, nailing the back of the net on his first try. But a teammate had moved into the box too early and Guatemalan referee Carlos Batres waved off the goal, sending the Real Madrid midfielder back to the mark to try again.

This time Paraguayan keeper Justo Villar made the diving save, extending his scoreless-minutes streak to 386 in the World Cup.

That streak would end a short time later, when Villa found a friendly goalpost with just seven minutes left in the regulation time. Iniesta set up the score by weaving through a tiring Paraguayan defense before feeding Pedro, who had entered the game just eight minutes earlier. Pedro’s shot struck the left upright and rebounded straight to Villa, whose own shot hit the right post and ricocheted across the goal line.

Rafael Nadal delivered the performance of a seven-time Grand Slam champion to end Andy Murray’s hopes of reaching his first Wimbledon final. Murray had hoped to become the first British man since 1938 to reach the final but Nadal was stronger in the key moments as he won 6-4 7-6 (8-6) 6-4.

The Spaniard made the decisive move in a superb second set tie-break. Nadal will meet Czech Tomas Berdych in Sunday’s final after the 12th seed beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

“It was a very, very good match for me,” the world number one told BBC Sport. “To beat Andy you have to play your best tennis, it’s always a big challenge and it was an amazing victory for me against one of the toughest opponents in the world.”

The Majorcan, who was unable to defend his 2008 title last year because of injury, extended his winning streak at the All England Club to 13 matches as he reached his fourth straight final. The defeat sees Murray miss out for the second year in a row on ending the 72-year wait for a successor to Bunny Austin, Britain’s last male finalist, and ensures it will be at least 75 years before there is a successor to Fred Perry as a British Wimbledon men’s singles champion.

“I’m not feeling like I played terrible,” said Murray. “I’m disappointed to have lost, I didn’t play a bad match at all. I’ve had some good wins against Rafa where I played great tennis. It’s not like I played badly. He played great, and that was the difference.”

Nadal showed exactly why he is the world number one with a breathtaking display of huge forehands and turning defence into attack. David Beckham caused a ripple of excitement with his arrival among the Centre Court crowd before the start of the second semi-final but there was already electricity in the air – it felt like the heavyweight contest the tournament had been waiting for.

Both men were sharp from the outset, Murray sealing his second service game with two aces and a lob volley, but he failed to capitalise on the first half-chance when presented with a second serve at 30-30 in game eight and Nadal quickly made him pay.

The Spaniard fired a forehand into the corner to earn the first break point of the match at 4-4 and a nervous Murray forehand into the tramlines gave Nadal the chance to serve out the set, which he duly did after 37 minutes.

Murray continued to hold the edge on serve early in the second set, making an impressive 76% of first serves as he won his first three service games to love, but he could not break Nadal’s resistance from deuce at 2-2 and 3-3 as the former champion held him off brilliantly. Finally, a superb defensive lob brought Murray his first break points of the day at 4-3, 15-40, but a big first serve, a succession of heavy forehands and a vicious backhand winner got Nadal out of trouble.

Its time not to call Netherlands underdogs anymore! Not after the way the Netherlands rallied to upset five-time champion Brazil 2-1 in the World Cup quarterfinals Friday.

After waking themselves up at halftime, the title that has eluded the Dutch for all these years is now just two wins away. “For 45 minutes we went full throttle,” said Wesley Sneijder. “We were rewarded.”

One of the shortest players on the field, Sneijder put the Netherlands ahead in the 68th minute on a header — a thrill so huge he ran to a TV camera, tapped the lens and stuck his face in for a close up.

“It just slipped through from my bald head and it was a great feeling,” Sneijder said. He was in the middle of the post-game party, too, as his teammates swarmed him when the final whistle blew. John Heitinga picked up Sneijder and slung him over his shoulder as Netherlands captain Giovanni van Bronckhorst, a Brazil shirt in hand, leaped up and rubbed Sneidjer’s closely shaved head.

The result was a case of role reversal for both sides. The top-ranked team in the world and one of the most impressive squads in the tournament until Friday, Brazil lost its composure after falling behind and defender Felipe Melo was ejected in the 73rd minute for stomping on the leg of Arjen Robben.

The Dutch made the championship match in 1974 and ’78, lost both, and rarely have lived up to their talent in other World Cups. They did this time, helped by an own goal off the head of unfortunate Felipe Melo that brought them into a 1-1 tie in the 53rd.

“I’m devastated. It was hard to see the players crying back there,” Felipe Melo said after emerging from the locker room.

“I have to apologize to the Brazilian fans. I came here thinking about giving Brazil the title, but I’m a human being. Everybody can make mistakes.” He was almost the hero. Robinho gave the Brazilians the lead on Felipe Melo’s brilliant low pass up the middle of the field that the striker put home with a low shot.

But the second half presented the unusual sight of the Brazilians scrambling wildly to find an equalizer. It never came. Instead, it was the Oranje and their fans doing the dancing as Brazil’s players lay on the turf.

Brazil also lost in the quarterfinals four years ago, falling to France 1-0. Former team captain Dunga was hired to coach the team after that defeat, despite having no previous managerial experience. “We didn’t expect this,” he said. “We know that any World Cup match is about 90 minutes. In the first half we were able to play better and we weren’t able to maintain that rhythm in the second half.”

Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk agreed that everything changed at the break. “We could have lost it in the first 15 minutes,” he said. “At halftime, I made it very clear to the players. I told them time and time again, ‘You have to play your own game. You have to have patience against Brazil.’”

Said Sneijder: “At halftime we said to each other that we had to improve things and put more pressure on the Brazilian defense.” The Netherlands reached the semifinals for the first time since losing to Brazil on penalty kicks at the 1998 World Cup, and will next face Uruguay, which defeated Ghana on penalty kicks.

In one of the biggest payouts ever seen in a celebrity divorce, Tiger Woods will give his wife USD 750 million (Rs 3500 crore) in a divorce deal that also includes him agreeing to bring a new flame into their lives and that of their children only if he has married her.

According to the British tabloid, The Sun, Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren in return for the payout will “never publicly speak out over his flings with socialite Rachel Uchitel, reality star Jaimee Grubbs, porn queen Josyln James and up to 17 others, who will work out costing him USD 37 million each”. The paper quoted a family associate as saying that while Elin was “desperate to protect the children from the womanising side of their father, Tiger’s main fear is her telling her story after he’s rebuilt his reputation, sending him back to the gutter.”

According to the deal, Elin will keep their main home in Windermere, Florida, and a nearby property, plus an apartment in Stockholm and her island farmhouse nearby. Woods will keep the USD 75 million estate in Jupiter Island, Florida, where they had been building a new mansion. He will also keep their £2million apartment in Los Angeles, when the six-year marriage officially ends.

Elin also gets sole physical custody of their kids but they will split legal custody. That means Tiger will share decisions about their future – so Elin will not be able to permanently relocate them to her native Sweden. Woods can also renegotiate the custody agreement in five years, the paper reported.

The Forbes’ SportsMoney column, however, has countered The Sun’s report and argued that Woods’ divorce couldn’t cost him USD 750 million, because he doesn’t have that much money. Forbes says that by its math, the golfer’s net worth is USD 600 million. All speculation, however, is expected to end next week when Elin files for divorce at Orlando County court. “She expects to in the next seven days,” is what the friend told The Sun.

According to a new report by Forbes columnist Kurt Badenhausen, Elin couldn’t possibly receive $750 million because Tiger isn’t worth that much. The article states that by their calculations, Tiger is worth $600 million.

To say that the Tiger Woods scandal cost Tiger is an understatement to say the least. From the reports of mistress payoffs to the loss of sponsorship Tiger has lost money. More importantly, however, Tiger Woods’ lost his reputation. The worth of being the world’s sport idol and hero to children everywhere is immeasurable; once, Tiger was that role model. Tiger Woods loss is much more than monetary and it seems trivial to try and estimate how much Elin Woods ‘won’ in the settlement.

After just one relaxing week in Montana, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson decided he can handle another season of the NBA grind. The two-time defending champions locked up their most important free agent of the summer Thursday when Jackson announced he’ll return next season, putting off retirement for at least another year to chase his 12th NBA title.

Jackson said last week he was worn out and leaning toward retirement after the Lakers’ third straight long season culminating in the NBA finals. He changed his mind after a week of rest and health evaluation at his offseason home, signing up for the unprecedented chance to win three consecutive NBA championships for the fourth time in his career.

“Count me in,” Jackson said. “After a couple weeks of deliberation, it is time to get back to the challenge of putting together a team that can defend its title in the 2010-11 season. It’ll be the last stand for me, and I hope a grand one.”

This is great news for Kobe Bryant, who would like to get the one more ring he needs to match Michael Jordan’s six, and there’s nobody else in the game who is better suited to help Kobe reach that goal than Jackson.

It’s also great for the NBA, which can never have too many living legends involved in the game. It’s terrific for Lakers fans, for Jack Nicholson and for sportswriters, who get to continue to cover a coach who reads actual books and can discuss them.

Jackson, who will turn 65 later this year, has the most coaching wins in playoff history and the most successful coach in NBA history by almost any measure.

He has a league-best .705 regular-season winning percentage, a record 225 postseason victories and two more titles than Boston’s Red Auerbach, winning five championships with the Lakers and six with the Chicago Bulls. His 1,098 regular-season victories are fifth-most in league history.

The Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in game seven of the NBA finals last month to claim their second straight title.

Los Angeles has made the finals in seven of Jackson’s 10 seasons with the club, and they’ll be among the early favorites to win it all again in 2011. “We’re extremely pleased that Phil has decided to return,” Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said.

Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic has prevented Roger Federer from making his eighth consecutive Wimbledon final, defeating the defending champion in four sets in quarter-final action on Wednesday.

Berdych prevailed on Centre Court 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, using a powerful serve to set up a finishing volley on his second match point.

Top-seeded Federer had appeared in a remarkable 23 consecutive Grand Slam semifinals, but has now failed to reach that standard in two straight majors after his French Open defeat. He was frustrated for much of the match and dogged by an inability to consistently place his first serve.

No. 12 Berdych broke Federer four times in London, England, with the decisive break coming in the seventh game of the fourth set. Berdych served 12 aces and was broken just once.

“It’s really tough to show this crowd how I’m just feeling right now, it’s amazing to play on this stadium to play such a great player as Roger is, and come here and be here as a winner is just really amazing,” Berdych said.

Federer said in a news conference after the match that he was playing with two previously undisclosed injuries. He said that his right leg hurt and his back stiffened during a tournament in June in Halle, Germany. He said both injuries flared up as the tournament wore on. “It’s just uncomfortable,” Federer said. “Obviously, I’m unhappy with the way I’m playing. You can’t play freely.”

The Swiss star won five Wimbledon titles in a row beginning in 2003, lost in an epic final to Rafael Nadal in 2008 and regained the title last year. Nadal was unable to defend because of knee injuries.

Federer, looking to add to his record 16 Grand Slam wins, had to battle from a two-set deficit in the first match of the tournament. His last loss at Wimbledon before the final was his first round exit in 2002 to Mario Ancic of Croatia.

Federer will be 28 in August. The recent results will have tennis observers wondering if he can ever dominate again, although Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras are among several past men’s greats who’ve shown that Slams can be won in the twilight of a career. Agassi won five of his eight Slams after the age of 29.

“If I’m healthy, I can handle these guys,” Federer insisted. “Quarters is a decent result,” he added. “Obviously people think quarters is shocking, but people would die to play in quarterfinal stages of Grand Slam play.”

The six-foot-five-inch Berdych has now reached consecutive Grand Slam semifinals, the first two of his career. He had won just one of the previous nine on the tour against Federer, including a 2009 Australian Open match in which he squandered a two-set lead. Berdych beat Federer at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

He will next face Novak Djokovic of Serbia, who is back in the Wimbledon semifinals after a two-year absence.

Looking forward to another all-Williams final at a grand slam? Then you’ll have to wait for the U.S. Open. And for this, you can blame the older sister. Venus Williams, a five-time Wimbledon champion, was out of sorts, out of answers and out of the tournament in the quarterfinals, stunned 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday by the lowest-ranked woman left, No. 82 Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria.Nope, no sister show at the All England Club this year. Williams double-faulted five times and totaled 29 unforced errors, 23 more than her solid-if-not-spectacular opponent.

“Didn’t do myself any favors,” said the No. 2-seeded Williams, whose younger sister, No. 1 Serena, won and reached the semifinals. “You know, if there was a shot to miss, I think I missed it.” Venus Williams has now played 77 career singles matches at the All England Club — she participated in eight of the last 10 finals, losing to her sister three times, including in 2009 — and she’s rarely gone out like this. The only time she’d been beaten at Wimbledon by someone ranked lower than Pironkova was way back on June 28, 1997, when Williams lost her tournament debut to No. 91 Magdalena Grzybowska.On the other side of the draw, Serena held her own.

She smacked 11 aces — lifting her total for the tournament to a Wimbledon-record 73 — in a 7-5, 6-3 victory over No. 9 Li Na of China. “I haven’t seen her serve that well in a while,” said the Williams sisters’ mother, Oracene Price, who joked, “They’re stealing some aces from Serena.”Serena’s Centre Court match began after Pironkova’s victory was completed, so tennis’ most successful siblings crossed paths in the locker room — already aware they would not meet in the Wimbledon final for a fifth time.

“I don’t know if it affected my play too much,” Serena said. She next faces yet another unheralded member of this year’s final four, 62nd-ranked Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, who beat 80th-ranked qualifier Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 4-6, 7-6 (10-8), 8-6.Pironkova will face No. 21 Vera Zvonareva of Russia, who ousted No. 8 Kim Clijsters 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.“Wimbledon has always been like a religion to me,” said Pironkova, whose 6-2 6-3 triumph over Williams was rapturously received by an appreciative Court One crowd. “And I don’t think it’s just for me. I think it’s for all of the players.“Wimbledon is the first tournament, it’s the oldest tournament. Growing up, every player is looking at Wimbledon. They say, ‘One day I want to play there. That’s like a dream’. I still cannot believe that I reached the semi-finals. This is truly like a dream to me, and I will try to enjoy it as much as I can.”