Rafa All the Way...

It was wonderful Australian Open final. In all true sense it was clashes of the titans and this one didn’t disappoint. It had all the ingredients of a pot-boiling finale and it was definitely a lot better than that. But I am not here writing about the match, cause if you are reading this article so carefully then you must be a tennis fan and no tennis fan worth his salt would have missed the Sunday clash. So this is about the player who I think have changed the way tennis is played, Rafael Nadal, the 22 year old Spaniard.
The way he plays he reminds me of Michael Chang, the indefatigable energy boosting Chang from US. Who else would have the energy and stamina to play two four hour plus games within 24 hours. He played an everlasting 5 setter with Verdasco and then the 4 hour Sunday finale clash. The first Spaniard to win the Australian Open. A title which he wears very casually on his levelled-head. Would he be able to match the Rod Laver record of winning all the Grand Slams in a single year? That time will say but right now everything’s falling in place for Rafa.
He started as the king of Clay, then Wimbledon happened and Grass was conquered and now in Australia the Hard Court has surrendered, what remains is the US open. And I hope that Rafa would definitely make it big there too.
It was a very teary fair at the prize ceremony, where Federer was all teary post the loss. It was certainly a big match and I definitely loved what I saw that day, a great match played by two of the greatest players of today’s time. Roger Federer is probably one of the greatest players that the game has seen but for the time being Rafa seems to getting into the psyche of Federer, who does not know how to exorcise the ghost...
So until then its Rafa all the way....