Some nightmares are worse than others

YES!!! Finally...

I retired at the 4th set to protect myself from a heart attack and, also, it was already 2+am. But from what I watched before I went to bed, I think Nadal deserved to win, which Federer himself kindly conceded as well. And he (Nadal of course) deserves to be number one, too. Hopefully that will happen soon.

Well, well, it wasn't so long ago when people (Nadal included) believed that Federer was closer to taking the French Open away than Nadal was to taking Wimbledon. Looks like they all predicted wrongly...

But maybe I should go into this predicting business because I've always thought that Nadal would do it some day. Ha ha. And, while I was watching the match I kept thinking of 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you for it' from Kipling's 'If' (which I learnt from Bridget Jones, ha ha), and, what do you know, the next day there's this article that quoted the same poem. Ha!

Hey, and I didn't know the Spanish motto is 'plus ultra'.

Commiserations to Federer. I think he never imagined anything worse than the French Open nightmare final could happen to him but it did. My humble non-expert opinion is he needs a real coach. Why can't he get one like everyone else? Maybe he can look up Justine's ex coach. He should be quite 'free' nowadays. And he's good.

And why is he dressed like he came out of the 1950s or something?

I'll bet Djokovic is thinking 'if Rafa can do it, I can do it too'. And who knows who else is also thinking that. Ha, but they've all got a new think to think about too because now, they've also got to think about overcoming the man who can still run like a bull after playing for nearly 5 hours.

Well done, Nadal. I hope he stays humble as he has been all these years. It was great that even in this win, he reminded everyone that the other man is still number one and still 'the best'.

But he couldn't get his tie straight. Cute...

Anyway, I was wrong that there were no Asians left because these two Taiwanese kids won the boys' doubles title. Well done, boys!

Pictures from the Wimbledon site

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