Guess I'm pretty late on this topic, but couldn't refrain from writing about it...This Sunday was the day...
Being an avid sports fan, I wasn't ready to miss the Wimbledon. That too, the duel between two most talented and probably amongst the greatest of tennis players ever - Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. True to the hype around, this turned out to be a whacker of a match. With all the interrupts in between, the play, which began at 7.05PM ended probably at 1.55AM. Having finished my penultimate paper the day before, it was a breather; in fact, it was more than what anyone could ever ask for. Those Federer serves, Nadal’s cross-courts, well, words fall short… I had heard that the 1980 final between McEnroe and Bjorn Borg (help me pronounce…) was a legend. This had surpassed all such legends I think. The match lasted 4 hours and 48 minutes without counting the interruptions, that says it all. I was lucky to have watched the match and lived every moment of it…
Being a Nadal fan I expected him to give up a big fight for Federer, but the way he played made Federer look like an amateur. By the end of the fourth set when both of them had won 2 sets apiece, it didn’t matter who won. The way each responded to the other’s aggression, heated up the centre court. The only guy who lost by the end of the match was Bjorn Borg. Both Federer and Nadal were set to break his record which he had held for 28 years. Had Federer won, he’d have surpassed his record for most consecutive Wimbledon titles. Now Nadal has equaled his feat of winning both French open and Wimbledon in the same calendar year. But, Borg didn’t seem sad. He was witnessing this melee, and applauding every point won. Even he too may have felt what all tennis lovers would have… It was a match to be cherished for a long long time…
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