This guy lives in Rafa’s head.
Novak Djokovic defeats Rafael Nadal at the US Open men’s singles final: 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-1.
All we can say is: Soplak! We need to see Rafa’s high kick again.
Read Steve Tignor’s excellent recap of how the Djoker beat Rafa at the US Open final this morning (Manila time).
We Federites can only console ourselves with the thought that the Djoker is keeping the Fed’s record safe from Rafa.
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Cartoon from the New Yorker Thanks to Bernard-Henri for the alert.
Brian Phillips tries to explain what happened at the Federer-Djokovic semifinal. Thanks to Jon for the alert.
We want athletes to be able to explain sports. Sport, at its most basic, is about physically realizing intentions — calculating the angle, plotting the spin, executing the shot. So surely the people who have the intentions, the people whose inner lives sport is expressing in some complicated way, are in the best position to tell us what really happens on the court. And to a certain extent that’s true. But one of the reasons it’s so scary to imagine going into the postmatch press conference as a loser is that it’s not entirely true. What happens during a match may concern you to an emotionally devastating degree, but what happens can also turn on tiny fluctuations of chance so complicated that they are astoundingly difficult to articulate — minute physical differences that fall within any conceivable margin of error, emotional swings that could have gone either way and went against you, who knows why.
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September 14th, 2011 at 02:11
Djokovic is just a beast this season. If he sustain his form and eventually win the year-end championships, he should tie or even surpass Federer’s dominance in 2006.
Ngayon alam na ni Nadal kung bakit nagkanda-iyak-iyak si Federer sa final ng 2009 Austalian Open.
The top three looks so interesting since, in a way, contrapelo nila ang isa’t isa these days. (Bye, Murray).
Anyway, still proud of our Olderer since he was the only player to beat Djokovic in a complete match this year. And he could have pulled the upset again if it wasn’t for his brain farts.
Pero you’re right about Djoker protecting Roger’s records. Hehehe. We all know that Roger would have bent over Nadal had he taken one of his two match points against Djoker.