Tennis
It was perhaps one of the best matches on grass in the recent years, reminiscent of the matches between the other two giants of Tennis, pistol Pete and Andre Agassi.
Tennis over the years had become very boring, with no one being able to offer any resistance to Federer, and the games being so one sided. Finally, we have a player who just doesn't have the potential to compete with the champ, but perhaps to beat him in his own backyard.
Watching the French Open final, when Nadal defeated Fedex, I was wondering if he would be able to do it on the Grass court, if there would be any competition at all, but boy did he play out of his skin and matched the champ till the very end.
The Intensity was very much apparent, and the kind of passing shots that kept coming from both the players, the volleys, the drop shots, this is what you pay to watch tennis.
In the recent years, we have seen other promising players like Roddick, Hewitt and a couple of others, throwing in the towel, even before the end of the first set and surrendering to the champ and not even making him sweat to win the Championship.
Rafa the Tarzan like boy, who is just 21 years old, and has already proved his mettle on Clay, perhaps one of the greatest of all time to play on the slower surface, is fast emerging as a very complete player, some one who now has all the shots to compete with the very best on all the surfaces.
This promises us a great year ahead, Now we can look forward to watch the Australian Open, the US Open and hope to see some hard fought matches as against tournaments where even before the beginning you knew who the winner was.
One can just wonder how the game would have been, had these two magnificent players played along side the other greats in the 90's, how amazing it would have been to watch a Federer taking on Sampras, Rafa taking on Agassi.
Dont know about the trophies and the Records, but the game surely would have gone to a completely different level. Dream on!! i hear that..
