I was looking at the Al Jazeera news feed and I found about my obsession , tennis. This article talks about the 4 set matchs between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in the US Open final. I remember watching this match on Monday right after school. Fortunately I have a 0-4 schedule so I was able to watch the entire 4 hours and 9 minutes. I wanted Nadal to crush Novak so there would be more reality in the tennis world. Novak has an amazing streak of 64-2 but it might only be a one season thing.
After the first set, I felt worrisome for Nadal, he was up 2-0 but he got reverse bageled. (In tennis, to bagel is to win 6-0.) One problem that Nadal had was that he was not aggressive enough at the baseline. It seemed that Nadal hit balls back over but there was a gravitational pull on the ball toward Novak. At least on the longer rallies Nadal was able to win most of them. Nadal’s serve was not quite aggressive enough also, but he blames he wind for that. Everyone has their special someone that they have weaknesses against, I guess it is Novak for Nadal and Nadal for Federer.
One reason why I didn’t want Novak to win was probably because he defeated Federer in the semifinals. The constant loss that Federer gets nowadays could mean a new era with Nadal and Djokovic. But since Nadal lost the last 6 matches with Novak, maybe it could be the era of Djokovic-Djokovic-Djokovic. If that happens, then tennis won’t be the same. Federer was able to do moves that are near impossible and make it look simple and clean, like the tweener. Age is a factor that is affecting him unfortunately
Well congrats to Novak anyways. I liked him more when he did those impersonations of Roddick, Sharapova, Federer, and Nadal.
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