Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Agent 47
It’s glorious moments for Spain’s sports as their soccer national team just won the Euro Cup a few days ago and Rafael Nadal just became the best tennist in the world as he won the two major titles in the sport, first the Roland Garros, and this weekend, he took the Wimbledon title from the hands of Roger Federer, who was on his way to match Bjorn Borg’s record of 5 straight Wimbledon championships.
For Nadal, it meant the first time that a spaniard wins the tournament in 40 years.
So on the records Roger Federer still shows as number one, but the real deal is that Rafael Nadal has done better than Federer this year all alone and for the swiss, the match against Nadal meant a loss on his favorite type of court: grass, which has never being the strong point for Nadal.
“Whoever wins the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year for me is the number one in the world,” said three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker.
According to critics, this is possibly the best match in tennis in history, and it was surely an epic one, with 5 sets that lasted 4 hours, 48 minutes, it was also the longest one.
After the win, Rafael Nadal approached Roger Federer and apologized to the swiss for ruling out his chances of being there in history with Bjorn Now Federer’s only choice is to start from zero and win 5 straight, but with Nadal being younger and at his prime, it will surely be a difficult task, if not impossible.
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