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Philipina A. Marcelo
And so, Roger Federer did it again! *sigh* Yeah... he messed with our minds again, and it's so not funny! No! Especially not in Wimbledon, no! Grrrr...
I'm mad! I'm not happy! I want to scream... especially that RF has not
Uh, yeah, that's right... think
about it all, RF!been screaming after letting the live-wire Frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, snatch victory from him after a 2 sets to love "almost victory"... yeah, almost, just almost! And that's all that it will ever be! Ugh! Losing to Rafael Nadal in the could've-gone-the-other-way final at Roland Garros, while disappointing, was forgivable. But in Wimbledon... it's a different story altogether! I don't understand... how, how, and how? How could a legendary grass champion go two sets up and in control of most of the third set against a player he'd beaten four times in their five previous meetings only to lose in the end... and in the quarter final where he arrived dropping only one set, too? It's unthinkable! Yes, that's what it is - unthinkable! Incredible, illogical, unbelievable! I'm mad - so, so mad!
No, I am not trying to diminish the brilliance with which Tsonga played to dig himself out of the two-set hole in which RF buried him at the beginning of the match. The Frenchman played with a single mind - to win the match regardless
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, flying high! of the legend on the other side of the net! He didn't stop giving himself chances even when the numbers on the score board were damning, to say the least! In the end, he managed to turn the table around... and prevailed! It was heroic, fantastic, admirable! And yet, what RF fan could take all this without feeling cheated, betrayed... abandoned in the hope of seeing the great champ re-write history once again in the most legible and beautiful strokes that only he could ever do??? Aaaargh...
OK, I know, I'm not being fair... I'm being a terrible bully. I'm sure RF does not enjoy losing, too. But that's exactly the point, he doesn't have to! *sigh* I think I need time... away from my precious tennis
The Centre Court of the All England Club, the most
hallowed ground of tennis where the very best and
legendary Champions emerge.world for a while! This is too hurtful. It is! And it is unbelievable that the terrible hurting was caused by the tennis champion who, I will always believe, is the very best to walk the earth - even now when I thought he did some terribly disappointing thing out there in SW19 - letting it all slip away as if the "love and lust" for tennis of half of the tennis world did not depend on him holding on... in his favorite court of all places - the same court most tennis fans consider the most revered of all courts in the universe! Aaaargh... No one, just no one, should step onto the Centre Court of Wimbledon - and all the hallowed grounds of SW19, for that matter - without winning in his/her mind - seriously! Ugh, Roger! *sigh* :(
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Photo credits: All photos were grabbed from the Zimbio website - thanks!
