Summary
YESTERDAY, for the first time since Stan Smith beat Ilie Nastase in 1972, the wrong man won the Wimbledon final. In his valedictory interview Roger Federer reported that he told Rafael Nadal "he deserved to win too", but there was no "too" about it. The stronger, hungrier and generally superior player for four and a half sets, during which he broke the Federer serve five times while being broken only once in return, Nadal should have gone on to take the title.
He would have done so had he taken one of four break points early in the fifth, when Federer was looking punchy and a single decent blow from the canvas.See the full content of this document
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Federer Won the Battle but May Have Lost War
Yet somehow, in that mystical way the immortals have, he survived all the scares before seizing the first chance that presented itself.
It wa...See the full content of this document
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