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Stanislas Wawrinka could not believe his new position as third in the ATP rankings after beating wounded Rafael Nadal to surprise the tennis world with an Australian Open title. The 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 thriller, with Nadal nursing a back problem from the start and almost quitting the match in tears will go down as one of the major shocks of any season.
Pete Sampras attended the Australian Open in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his 1994 title win and met up with a bunch of his former playing peers including Michael Chang, Jim Courier, Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, all of who are coaching in some capacity.
Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka was still in a state of some disbelief two hours after beating the injured Rafael Nadal to win a first ever major title. And voicing his confusion he said: “I never expected to win a Grand Slam. I never dreamed about that because for me, I was not good enough to beat those top guys.”
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Rafael Nadal came in with a hand blister. He came out with a back injury -- and no title. Nadal suffered the injury in the second set, and some watchers thought he would retire. But he was already in trouble by then.
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From the moment Roger Federer takes the court ( stage ) the crowd shall settle in. Rule number 8.06 in VIII in the code on page 182. In the latest edition of the rule book.
Until this round, Roger Federer had looked like his old self. In this match, he looked like his old self in another way: He couldn't handle Rafael Nadal. Nadal's hand was a mess; he had bandages on all his fingers and his palm. But his shots didn't show any problems...
Eventually, some player was going to take out a member of the Big 4 and win a Grand Slam. It had not occurred since 2009 when Juan Martin Del Potro stunned Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at the US Open.
So, the story was an all Swiss final, it's staring us right in the face, right? Stan's already in and Feds's got a new coach, new racquet, and is playing great, already having beaten Tsonga and Murray both former finalists down under. Plus Rafa's got that blister that everyone's talking about...
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”, so reads the famous quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. These words, of course, turn out to be hollow, as all that remains of Ozymandias’ works are the decaying remnants of a once flourishing empire...
Rafael Nadal says that he gets more emotional for his matches against Roger Federer than against any other player, which is not surprising given that when the Spaniard arrived on the scene that the Swiss was the tour’s dominant competitor and looked unstoppable when he was on.
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The national obsession with cricket has dealt the Australian Open a television ratings blow, with the Ashes and one-day Twenty20 Big Bash matches drawing more viewers on average than the goings-on at Melbourne Park.
Roger Federer is reaping the benefits of both newly appointed part-time celebrity coach Stefan Edberg’s encouragement to play more attacking tennis and the bigger, more powerful Wilson racket he will now probably use for the remainder of his career.
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