When it comes to tennis, I always feel that Roger Federer is the best player ever. The Numero Uno, the number one, the greatest player the sport has ever seen. But, even at his best, this tennis great has time and time again found it difficult to beat Nadal and at Melbourne, Federer was left with tears as The Moving Wall (Nadal as described by Vijay Amritraj) proved to be difficult to crack again. It was amazing considering that Nadal was involved in another 5 hours classic battle against Fernando Verdasco two days earlier.

I don’t think Federer played badly against Nadal but as always Nadal makes the player at the other side of the court look miserable with amazing return of shots. He simply returns back everything that was thrown at him and forces his opponent to play one more shot until he makes the mistakes. In the end, the statistic showed high number of errors made by Federer as though he’s having a bad day. No wonder Vijay calls Nadal ‘The Moving Wall’. Playing against him is like hitting the ball to the wall, the ball keeps bouncing back at you no matter how good your shot is. Reminded me of Forrest Gump playing table-tennis too.

Fernando Verdasco, after his classic semis with Nadal said that to win a point from Nadal, you have to win it three times. That’s how difficult playing against the current World No. 1 is. Like Rocky, Nadal used his incredible strenght and courage to fight and fight till the very end. He doesn’t simply surrender cheap points to his opponent and his sheer determination is an inspiration to all young aspirants. He makes impossible shots possible and he keeps taking all the shots thrown at him and moved forward for the kill. That’s how winning is done! The Rocky style.

At the age of 22 and with six Grand Slam titles to his name already, Nadal is fast becoming a living legend. For several years, people have been talking about the possibility of Federer breaking Pete Sampras’ record of 14 grand slam wins. I bet it won’t be long before people will start talking the same thing about this young Spaniard.  The question is only whether he can take all the punishments on court and keep moving forward.

Award:
I received an award from fellow blogger, Tie, two days ago. Thank you. I’m truly honoured and this will definitely help filling up my empty cabinets. I would like to share the award to my blogger friends as listed below:-

- Passionate About Blogging

1. Maza

2. Faisal Admar

3. E-Tomyam

4. Emylia

5. Nadine Zuharra

6. Tirana

7. Waliz

8. Ruslie Sophian

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10. Kamal TSS

11. Jan

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