And guess what .. Martina ( Navratilova) predicted Kvitova as the Wimbledon Champ at Rolland Garros .... wooops ... Martina certainly knows a thing or two about the sport.
Wow.....The Championships had just about everything to offer that any afficianado would ever ask for . Two leggie blondes going all out , grunt for grunt , ferociously for the Ladies Singles Final , is a ready pickup anytime for me. Kvitova is my girl for the next few years on girls tennis. Shes got immensely powerful shots , forehand and backhand both . And it was a very tintillating feeling for me the way she played around with Maria , overpowering her , outhitting her , outthinking her . I remember I first noticed Kvitova when she beat a strong Stosur at the Australian Open this year .And ever since I have felt an aura of invincibility around her .
Mens tennis as it stands now for me is the best that I have ever seen it .I have been pursuing the sport since 1992 , the first full match I ever saw was the Wimbledon Finals , when a long haired, earpierced Andre Agassi lifted the trophy and struck the most stylish poses with it I have ever seen . It was just so much macho and tickling to my nerves back then . But the scenario of mens tennis as of today is the best for me for the last two decades. Roger Federer is a portrait in contrasts. He is the best ever shot maker in the history of tennis ( plz... anyone who says anything contrary to this needs a reality check on the sport) , but , paradoxically , he is the least competitive champ in the game too . I thought if you had superhuman abilities , it was supposed to be an aid to make me mentally strong and confident . But , inexplicably and mysteriously , does not happen in Roger’s case . Nadal is the true sportsman anyone would ever love to be . He cant make shots like Federer does , and he knows it . But he is muscular, and he is athletic and hes got the heart of a true Champ. I have not been able to make a clear picture of Djokovic , but this years Championship Finals showed him in monsterous form . He was sizzling on the forehand side , but what for me was most noticeable was the way he outran Rafa , matched him stride for stride , and actually wrongfooted Nadal on numerous occasions . This situation for me puts Mens Tennis in a very mouth watering position . And please, I cant understand the fuss about Murray. The boy needs to grow up and travel a very definite distance before he can be counted amongst the elite three. But Roger, Rafa, Novak .... perfect ingredients , sheer viewing delight for me and am sure countless others round the globe. I am a die hard Roger Federer fan , and my money is on him at this years US Open. He is the greatest tennis player of all time , irrestepctive of whatever happens from now on . I just hope desperately that he develops his mental side which couples wth his Godlike shotmaking would be a something extraordinaryaryary. M really looking forward to him and the other two rivals at this years US Open.
P.S. I never saw Jimmy Connors play... but his quote is something that i adore when he says . “ In tennis , there are Clay Court specialists, Grass Court specialists or there are Roger Federers.”
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