Wimbledon, the lone tennis Grand Slam on grass just started today. Roger Federer swept aside his first round opponent, Dominik Hrbaty in three very easy sets. He's won this title five years in a row and hasn't lost on grass in - get this - his last 60 matches on this surface. Despite the fact that he hasn't been in his best form this year, he just won a grass tournament in Halle a couple of weeks ago and he is still a strong favorite to win the title. I wouldn't be surprised if he breaks Bjorn Borg's record of consecutive Championships won (they are currently tied, both with 5 titles in a row).
I would love it, though, if Rafael Nadal can actually breakthrough and win his first Wimbledon title. He just won his first grass court title a couple of weeks ago, and it was a pretty strong win because he had to navigate through two strong-servers and grass-court specialists in Ivo Karlovic and Andy Roddick as well as world #3 Novak Djokovic en route to the title. He is definitely on a hot-streak right now (he's won his last 17 matches) which will certainly help his confidence, but he does have a tough draw. He gets a bit of a break though, with Djokovic being Roger's half of the draw.
Two more weeks of very interesting tennis. Let's hope this tournament lives up to the hype...
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