Spaniards on Fire..

It is wonderful to notice how things happening to you for the first time make you forget everything and just be what you are deep inside in yourself. Rafal's emotional break-down after his first ever Wimbeldon Title was a true example of it.

Tennis is typically an ego game just like Chess, Table tennis and others of their likes. Opponents' morale is the level to beat rather than playing the game at a predetermined level. Beating Federer on Grass court surely gave Rafal an inferior level of morale to start with. But Rafal could back it with much needed desperate persuasion and 'nothing to loose, everything to gain' attitude. He remained head on with Federer through out the match (infact dominated him for the first two sets) and put that extra effort to notch his game slightly above Federer's. Mind you, both seemed to be playing exceptionally brilliant anyways till then.

But unlike other finals the duo have entertained millions of their fans with, this time around both did seem to be in different set of emotions. Federer seemed like a bedridden patient who fought his disease till the very last point until the doctor finally gave him his verdict for the disease being incurable. For Federer had been avoiding the defeat for a considerable amount of years now and his mental levels had come a long way from 'want to win this time too' to 'can I survive Rafal another time?'.

Nadal however basked himself to the pressure with much better mental fitness. He seemed to have done his homework brilliantly and knew exactly what was needed to defeat the master. Although achieving it was as difficult as being able to answer those tricky mathematical theories. Only one element could do it for him. Setting into the rhythm. And he was already on fine tune right from the first set of the marathon match.

It will be interesting to see if Nadal will now rule the scenario or would Federer come back to snatch his glory. The battle has just begun.