I was worried there for a few hours. When the Men's Finals match at the French Open was suspended because of rain, a different but similar rain to the one we were simultaneously experiencing here at home, Rafa was down one game (1-2) in the fourth set. He was two sets up, but the momentum had shifted to Djokovic, the conditions were soggy, and the rain was getting, not just onto, but under Rafa's skin.
I haven't actually seen the close of the match, because for some wrong-headed reason having to do with profits and the general public, NBC didn't carry the championship this morning, and the Tennis Channel is playing everything else. But I will see it! I love to watch Nadal whip Djokovic, who has to be the most intensely angry, off-putting competitor we've seen since Jimmy Connors.
So Rafa has denied Djokovic his (maybe) only chance to join the elite two - Don Budge and Rod Laver - who have held all four Championship titles in a single year. Plus, Nadal becomes the only man in tennis history to have won seven French Open titles, surpassing Bjorn Borg's six, and with no reason to believe he can't continue to pile up numbers on clay and elsewhere. Way to go, Rafa!
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