It was 2 in the morning when I uttered “Shit!” for the final time before I went to sleep. I hate it when someone or something raises your hopes and then lets you down completely (the one name that comes to mind immediately is that of the Indian cricket team – but let’s not even start about them).
But today it was different for I did not feel let down. Roger Federer had played a brilliant match and lost to a player who had just played better than him. That’s it. One champion playing better than the other. The ultimate winner was the game itself (now, where have we heard that before?).
The Federer-Nadal match was among the best and most gripping match that has been played for a long long time. The 3rd and 4th sets saw one of the greatest comebacks ever. Federer ground it out (and it is not often that you associate something like this with Fed-Ex) against Nadal and took the match to the 5th set. It seemed as if Nadal’s dream to win Wimbledon would remain just that – a dream. But destiny seemed to be on his side as he held his nerve to win the best match that I have seen in a long time.
4 comments:
I missed the match.. and now i feel i was an ass to do that.
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Well written.
why is the blog dead???!!!!
What a brilliant game it was.Remember the US open 2002 quarter finals match? Sampras vs Agassi-went to 5 sets Sampras winning 7-6,6-7,7-6.6-7,7-6!
I don't remember that. Though the scoreline suggests that it must have been nerve-wracking.
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