Saturday, June 7, 2008

allez!


Tomorrow's final offers the opportunity for the sort of match that people will talk about for decades. Will we get it? Who knows. That depends on Roger, of course, especially his serve. The tingle his fans felt a year ago when, for one slashing and exhilarating set, he appeared to have figured out Rafa only made the disappointment of the last two sets all the worse.

But no matter what happens tomorrow we should appreciate having two players at the top of the game who are so exciting, so classy, and so consistently excellent that they meet this often in important finals.

Over at tennis.com the rafa fans and the roger fans get along as long as Djokovic is in the draw, and then the knives come out. The saddest part is Federer fans who are just hoping he does not get embarrassed. I for one am hoping for much more.

If you want to see an approximation of what it will look like at my place cheering for Roger over breakfast tomorrow, watch this video of young Hewitt fans. Folks at tennis.com, this is how its done.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi ya! There aren't that many of us @ tennis.com just hoping that Roger doesn't get embarrassed!

But thanks for mentioning us. :) Plenty of us believe.

Enjoy your blog. Come say hello. :)

fuzzy said...

okay I will. thanks for the invitation tari. I love reading you guys, but only after the match.

Anonymous said...

Hey, fuzzy...did you drop by the blog?

Freakin' clay! Arrrgggghhh. :)

But kudos to Nadal.

Ariel said...

hey tari, i ask the same question... what is going on with fuzzy? is he still trying to recover from Rog's loss last week? Cheer up, fuzzy, and keep the posts coming!