Monday, July 09, 2007

Nadal can play on grass...

If Federer is the best tennis player of all time and I think he is, then Nadal is a very very close second.

From how the Wimbledon finals played out I agree with what Federer told Nadal at the net "You [Nadal] deserved to win today, but today I [Federer] was the lucky one."

The game was unbelievable. Federer is god, no doubt. No player past or present comes close to him but yesterday Nadal did the unthinkable. He not only matched Federer but was clearly outplaying him. And this is on grass!!! Even when Federer was pulling out all stops, Nadal took the fight to him. I have heard commentators tell many times that Federer wins many matches in the locker room itself. That's how good he is, people come out afraid, and on grass people just wilt in front of him. But Nadal was the Lion on the court yesterday, something even Federer himself couldn't do at Roland Garros this year when he had the chance. All heart man, all heart...

It was just an amazing match, can't remember two players at their peak going at it like this, toe to toe at the same time. Almost every point was worthy of making it to the highlight reel. I personally will remember this match for Federer's record tying 5th consecutive title but will probably remember it more so for the fight Nadal put up...

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Unfortunately I missed a part of the match (watched the first and last set .. ) but this is what i heard from Alan Wilkins/Vijay Amritraj "Fedex dint have a chance in Paris.. and Fedex got lucky today .. " They concluded saying that Nadal will probably win Wimbledon before Fedex wins French..

Bharat said...

Yup I heard it too that "Nadal will win on grass before Federer wins on clay"...

I will be buying the DVD of this match as son as it is out...