Today, Sunday July 6th is a day to be immortalized in the history of tennis.
Rafa Nadal dethroned the five consecutive times winner of Wimbledon championship from his grass throne, Roger Federrer.
Both of the two players played a memorable epic today of amazing full of surprises five sets.
Nadal was to win the match earlier than we expected but the defending champion fought even harder to stay in the event, unfortunately in vane.
The Spaniard who won his first grass title in Queens, has amplified his win with the surprising yet superb victory in the grass grand slam; Wimbledon.
This victory is to be memorized for many reasons. Nadal is the first Spaniard to win this championship since Manolo Santana in 1966.
He shattered the Swiss dream of an historic 6 consecutive victories in Wimbledon.
He is the third player who wins the French open and Wimbledon in the same season.
He ended the 65 straight wins of Federrer on grass courts.
The 22-year-old Rafa has conquered all courts of tennis to be the matador of them all.
Did you know that “Nadal” means “fighting for dignity” in Arabic?
And what a fighter for dignity and recognition Rafa could be.
Nadal won the first two sets in confidence while Federrer struggled with his backhand shots.
Federrer just fought back and he didn't give up and in two tie breakers he managed to survive and come back to form an epic.
In the last set the final words were for Nadal with an unreturned serve as he won 9 - 7 in the fifth set to be the champion of Wimbledon 2008.
What a year for Nadal and what a day in the history of tennis.
It has been a remarkable rival between this two and it will be memorized as the toughest in all decades even more than Agassi and Sampras.
Nadal won 6 - 4, 6 - 4, 6 - 7, 6 - 7, 9 - 7.
Vamos Rafa… What a way to go.
