Another year, another Wimbledon. Congratulations to Roger Federer, who won his 7th Wimbledon title. He reclaims the #1 ranking, tying him this week with Pete Sampras for the most number of weeks at #1, but as he will certainly not drop his top ranking next week, he will surely eclipse Sampras' record.
I was rooting for Andy Murray, though. I have felt for the last few years now that if Andy Murray played in another era, he could be holding a couple of Grand Slam titles already. Unfortunately, he plays in the era of Federer, Rafa Nadal, and Novak Djokovic, who have a combined 33 titles among them (that number is just staggering!). Most tennis aficionados think of Andy as the best player to have (so far) not won a Grand Slam (this was his 4th final). He has been a consistent and solid world #4 but the top 3 are just too dominant. If Murray won, it would have been a fairy tale ending to his 2012 Wimbledon experience and would have been a great way for him to finally break though to win his first major. Alas, he ran into a player who used this event to further cement his case as the Greatest Of All Time (G.O.A.T.).
Murray's runner-up speech has to be one of the most emotional I've seen on a tennis court. While the loss surely made broke his heart, it didn't help that he was playing on 'home turf' and probably feels like he let down an entire nation. Check out his speech here:
video uploaded in youtube by user HollywoodRocket1
I do hope that Andy Murray does eventually win one Grand Slam event. Would be even more awesome if it he gets to win Wimbledon.
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Of course, I didn't get to watch the final since Skycable dropped Star Sports. Oh well. I still haven't decided whether to get a digibox or switch to Cignal...
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