Tennis Update: Spanish King Nadal confirms his dominance by pocketing US Open 2010
Rafael Nadal became the only seventh man in the history of tennis to complete a career slam by winning all four grand slams which are US open, Wimbledon, Australian open and French Open.
He also became the youngest player to do so at 24. It has been a outstanding year for Spain as the sports in the country has taken giant steps with the Nadal claiming a career slam, football team lifting the world cup and Albert Contador winning the tour de France.
From past few decades, the world has seen several grand tennis rivalries with Sampras-Agassi still fresh in memories, Borg and McEnroe’s but none bigger than Nadal-Federer’s battle for supremacy in a tussle to become the undisputed ace of tennis world.
Similarly, the fans have witnessed great players down the years in a list, which includes Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Bjon Borg, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
Spain’s Rafael Nadal won the US open taking his tally to over all nine grand slams, which includes remarkably five French Opens, two Wimbledon titles, a US open and an Australian open. He proved his dominance on hard court and grass as well brushing aside the critics who labelled him only as a clay court player and thus retains his world number one ranking.
Rafael Nadal, a name which has been a nightmare for Roger Federer’s reign. It was his emergence that indicated the downfall of Federer, with the Spaniard curving shots and fitness he has been in too hot to handle for his opponents.
With years of tennis ahead of him, a lot can be expected from the dashing Nadal who has just started to peak his game.
Rafa looks in red-hot form and his recent victory at the grand slam and performances shows he is hungry for much more and it will not be wrong to say that he looks to be the one who can break Federer’s unbeatable records.
Regarded as the best Tennis player of all time, Federer roller coaster first showed its frailty as he went out in quarter-finals of Wimbledon before playing eight consecutive finals at the All England’s Club in previous years and now his fall at the US open has shown he is no more the same force. However, the Swiss has provided the best tennis to his fans with his illustrious career before showing signs of getting easily broken.
In 2003, the Roger Federer came into prominence by winning the Wimbledon and achieving his first personal grand slam victory. He never looked back after that break through and conquered all his opponents with bizarre ease breaking almost all the records, which came in his way. Federer, by winning the 2009 French open completed a men's singles Career Grand Slam. He is on of the seven players in history to achieve this feat.
Astoundingly, he remained the world number one overall for 285 weeks in which and held his position at the top for unbelievable 237 consecutive weeks. In his dream run Swiss maestro, won all four major grand slams on three different surfaces grass, clay and hard courts -- amassing record 16 grand slam titles.
He won Wimbledon six times, Australian open four times, U.S open five times and French Open once. Altogether, he appeared in 23 grand slam finals winning sixteen of them, which makes him a true living legend. For this breath, taking display Roger Federer was voted World sportsman of the year for four consecutive years ahead of Tiger woods from 2005 to 2008.
Until this time, no one was able to threat Roger’s supremacy with likes of Australian Letin Hewitt, USA’s Andy Roddick and Serbian Novak Djokovic all failing to overthrow Federer of his crown, until Nadal came and destroyed the mighty Swiss.
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