Jun 11, 2007

FedEx failed to Deliver!

The King is still searching for the missing jewel on his Crown. He has to wait for another year to see to find it.

The French Open Final between The King of Tennis (Roger Federer) and The King of Clay (Rafiq Nadal) was played yesterday. Roger was my favourite and I wanted him to win it - to have all four 'Slams' at a time. I didn't watch any of the match at Rolland Garros this year, but lucky to saw the match that I don't want to miss.

Unfortunately, things didn't go Roger's way. He was struggling with his first serves and was not able to convert the breakpoints. In fact, Roger won his first break point on the 11 opportunity. Nadal also was in a fighting mood to win the title for the 3rd time in a row. He didn't give anything easy to Roger. Nadal saved 5 break points before winning the Game 6 of first set.

After losing the first set, Roger came back well in the second to conquer the set but after that it was all Nadal's script. The fact that Roger has reached the final here for the second consecutive time reveal that he is not bad at clay but Nadal's power and technique on clay is better than his.

Though Roger has won all other grand slams more than trice but none in French Open. Hope he will close this expectation in coming year.

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