Tennis fans all over the world would still remember sitting on the edge of their seats watching a bald head man just returning a 180 kmph serve & the man on the other end licking for everything he is worth & sending another thuderbolt.....Yes indeed i am talking about the Sampras vs Agassi rivalry....but such is the vast change that now hardly anyone remembers those classic matches because they have been aptly replaced by Federer vs Nadal clashes.
Indeed for the last few years it has been a wonderful rivalry which has left everyone of us thanking this two superstars for the level they have taken tennis to.No matter how bad a Nadal fan says Federer is in public,inside his heart he fears if not also respects Federer.Such has been the dominance of this man that his closest competitors(before Nadal burst into the scene)were some leap years away from him.Every Federer loss came in the front page with the heading 'is the Federer era over', so rare was a loss to Federer & everytime he bounced back & in style.A perfectionist who left his biggest critics dumbfounded Federer is surely a man tennis will always be proud of.The model of humility Federer surely was deserving of all the praises lavished on him. His stoical manner on the courts surely left nothing to b asked for & the ease with which he dispensed much vaunted players left everyone awestuck.
However,surely noone's glory days is forever.Nadal has stated it emphatically enough that the Federer era is over for us to realise that this is no mean threat.Surely after the French Open demolition Federer will step into the court with Nadal with a beating heart.The fear he instilled into opponents till date wil grip him now.Surely we could have expected Federer,the champion he is, to battle it out but the question lies 'is he still that good.'
Well if you ask me the answer is a big damn emphatic no but then what are champions for but to fire when the chips are down.But the problem for Federer lies in the fact that its not only Nadal but its Djokovic to.With a superb hard court game you can only ignore the Serb at your own risk.Probably all Federer can do now is move over & make way for the rivalry of the coming days because probably his best may not be enough to keep him in the top spot.While we get ready to see whether Federer can establish his supremacy on the grass courts we surely see another era in tennis coming to an end slowly but steadily & again we wont miss Federer because the replacement is ready........
9 comments:
i have been a very staunch supporter of nadal and roddick and hate federer..if he wouldnt have come to the scene i dont know how many touneys roddick would have won...i think the reason because federer prevailed was because never suffered from a major injury..that is why he never lost his form..and now that he is losing i am so happy...and now theres competition for him apart from the clay court also...because theres dojokovich...he is the perfect antidote for federer...and i pray to god that rafa beats the hell out of federer this wimbledon.
yeaps.. it certainly is a great rivalry... gud for da fans... n ya very elegantly described
good work bro........you analysis abt sports has always been gud ..
nice description of great rivalry..
carry on with ur gud wrk
lol neat boy... pretty darn neat !
the blogger's comments on the issue shows his knowledge about the game of tennis.his in depth analysis about the federer and nadal clash is praise worthy..though i beg to differ from the fact that federer's rule has ended..no one can go on winning indefinitely..it has to end and i guess nadal did that job of stopping the indisputed reign of federer in men's tennis.but he surely can bounce back and i hope that day comes soon so that tennis fans all over the world get to see the clash of the titans again...
researched a lot about the greatest rivals of all tym eh?
but do u really think that the 'replacement' for Federer can be that good?
must say u r a keen follower of d game but cant agree with u completely..
We WILL be missing Roger coz u cant find 'easy' replacement for a guy who has d longest winning streak not just on grass(unbeaten since '03!!) but also on d hard courts. for 3 straight yrs, he has been denied a calendar slam by d greatest clay courter of all times.. 10 slam finals(n 16 semi finals)in a row is no mean feat.. not just for his achievements, we'll be missing federer more for d style, elegance n pinpoint accuracy he's brought in d game.. thats where he clearly stands out.. nadal for instance is almost mechanical n djokovic seems to force his shots but with federer it all seems so natural.. pure class.. true dat d younger guys r getting better n he's only getting older,but still its way too early to seriously write him off.. with the world's greatest ever forehand n all round perfection, i guess he's still got more records to set.. so it seems d foreboding will still hold for a few more months down d line- Dont play Roger Federer on a Sunday!!
yes there is a certainly a cold war between the two and very well described
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