Monday, July 7, 2008

And The Winner Is.........

It was an exciting and heart-stopping Wimbledon tennis men's final last night (or should I say early morning). I almost had a cardiac arrest hehehe coz the match was full of drama (with two rain delays) at the highest quality of play. I never seen a match such at that high quality for quite some time.

The actors : Five time defending champion (Roger Federer) vs three time consecutive finalist (Rafael Nadal).In the end Rafa managed to wrestle the title from Roger after a thrilling 5 sets match lasted four and half hours that ended around 4.30am. Congrats!!!! Rafa. I'm really happy for Rafa coz at last he won the most coveted Wimbledon title and it was an amazing achievement coz he won Roland Garros (which is on the slowest surface) and Wimbledon (which is the on fastest surface) in the same year (within a month period). Not since Bjorn Borg did in in 1980s even the Great Roger never done it yet. I did cry when I saw Rafa cried once Roger send the ball to the net handed him the title. It was really an emotional and touching moment. Even the whole match was emotional (at least for me).
Rafa was a very deserving winner this year and he should win it in 3 sets or even in the 4th set where he had 2 match points but Roger did an amazing job to came back from two sets down to force the deciding fifth set. There were many break points chances for both players but Rafa did just enough to seize the opportunity to win it at the end. Rafa now in the amazing 24-match winning streak and I hope he can continue winning until the Olympics and the US Open in August.

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