Image from Roland Garros official website. So far we haven’t been disappointment in the drama department of Roland Garros with plenty of upsets, tricky weather conditions, and some very good matches. Yesterday was no exception with two interesting five setters – although they were interesting for very different reasons. Dudes of drama: Foggy vs Le Monf Tennis fans have a hard time forgetting the Fognini vs Monfils spectacle in 2010 where the cocky Italian was booed off the court at one point, but managed to win it the next day. Four years later Monfils got his revenge in a topsy-turvy …
GOAT stands for Greatest Player of All Time and the discussion of who can rightfully claim that “title”. Since Federer holds many of the records, especially the heaviest one with 17 Grand Slam titles, most people seem to think that he deserves the GOAT distinction, but when he keeps losing to Nadal and Nadal keeps winning title after title, the discussion starts again. The facts are (Federer first, Nadal second): Federer has obviously won more tournaments, but Nadal is much younger at 26 while Federer is 31. So you could say that Nadal has five more years at least to …
I had high hopes for the Rome final. Federer had looked good all tournament and not dropped a set and was about to commence batte for his first Rome title ever and Nadal had had some problems, especially with Gulbis. It should be a pretty even match, I thought. In my stupidity. In a one-sided affair similar of the Roland Garros final in 2008, Nadal washed over Federer’s backhand like hail and poor Fed rushed the net like a Llodra after an intoxicated night in Paris and far from the Greatest Player of All Time. Nadal on the other hand, …
