Great courage and determination...
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Great courage and determination...
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Nice title :clap: :thumbsup:
Thanks Nerd :)
Congratulations Thambi Rafael Nadal :D
Congrats for becoming the youngest ever career grandslam winning champion :thumbsup:. It's upto you to now maintain all the hard earned records which is a bigger test. I wish best of luck in the test of upcoming years.
P.S: I don't know whether PR comes here but if you come around please delete the other thread. It's a waste of time and space.
full flow..remeber a dialouge from sivaji..:"ipdiye vitta C.M ayiduvon pole irukke" :)
vandhAn vendRAn.
I have always said that he has to just put his mind on something for it to happen. It just happened that this year he said himself "And the Red Sea shall part"...er..."And I shall win the US Open".
adutha varusham "I shall win the calendar Grand Slam" apdinu nenaichukittArnA, adhuvum varum.
Statistically, he is going to end up with the best ever record in Men's Tennis, especially in Grand Slams.
(But still enakku Fed dhAn pidikkum!)
Nadal :notworthy: . Winning the US Open (lost just 1 set in the whole tournament) and completing the Career Grand Slam at such a young age. :clap: for working very hard on the serve and improving the one aspect that could have been his disadvantage. Applause for his support team for the tactical nuance of making him play from the baseline rather than from 5 yards behind the baseline.
PS: I will continue to be a Federer fan though :D
awesome Nadal in fantastic form :thumbsup:
CGS in younger age :notworthy:
Nadal :D :notworthy: :clap: :clap:
nice title 8-)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/13/sports/la-sp-dwyre-us-open-20100914
Rafael Nadal now has a full place setting, and a place in tennis history
The Spaniard's first U.S. Open championship completes a career Grand Slam — at least one title in each of tennis' four major tournaments — and confirms his unquestioned supremacy in the sport.
BILL DWYRE
September 13, 2010
From New York
The changing of the guard has arrived in men's tennis. We have moved from the Swiss Surgeon to the Spanish Assassin.
In a U.S. Open that carried on for 15 days, through heat and wind and rain, threatening to never end, Rafael Nadal put the perfect finishing touch on the proceedings. At 10:10 p.m. EDT, he held the winner's trophy over his head in a manner that made it clear that this was more than just another piece of tennis hardware.
"It is what I dreamt," he said, his broken English increasingly endearing.
He had never won a U.S. Open, and now he had. He was seeking a high place in tennis history, and now he had it. He became the seventh man — after Fred Perry, Don Budge, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Andre Agassi and Roger Federer — to win each Grand Slam tournament at least once. He also joined the Agassi family, Andre and wife Steffi Graf, as the only winners of all four majors and an Olympic gold medal.
For once, it would be fair to assume that a trophy meant more to a tennis player than the $1.7-million winner's check that went with it.
Perhaps adding to the moment was that it hadn't come easily. Nadal, the pride of Mallorca and all corners of Spain, beat Novak Djokovic, who made Serbia proud, too. His 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 defeat by Nadal took 3 hours 43 minutes, not including a 1-hour 48-minute rain delay, and featured the best Djokovic had to give.
"You just have to congratulate him and tell him, you're better," Djokovic said. ". . . It was a very good performance from my side. But whenever it was important, he was the one who was playing just too good."
The last three words sum up Nadal. He was just too good.
This was his ninth major title and he is only 24. It was his third straight major title, won on clay, grass and hard courts. He has converted a game built for clay into one for all surfaces. He has brought an upgraded work ethic and mental toughness to a game that makes millionaires of coasters and flakes.
He is the new sheriff in town.
Federer is 29 and won the only major this year that Nadal did not, the Australian. Federer, who relinquished the No. 2 spot in the rankings to Djokovic when he lost to him in Saturday's five-set semifinal, represents the next hill for Nadal to climb, his record 16 majors. The five years that separate the two represent 20 more Grand Slam chances for Nadal.