WIMBLEDON 2013 CHAMPIONS

 

The huge event Wimbledon 2013 bids adieu with lot of exciting games and moments. It has shown the mixture of hard work, emotion, human value, excitement, temperament, pride and the list goes on. May the best win is the mantra of Wimbledon and this year the Wimbledon 2013 championship was bagged by Andy Murray and Marion Bartoli in men & women’s singles event respectively.

 

 

Andy Murray wins Wimbledon 2013 men's final with straight-sets victory over Novak Djokovic. British tennis has been waiting for this moment for almost 77 years and the wait is over now. Murray became the first British men’s singles winner at The Lawn Tennis Championships since Fred Perry in 1936. He is also the first British man to win Wimbledon in short trousers. “Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis,” said Andy Murray. He added that the few days before the tournament are really difficult and for the last four or five years, it’s been very, very tough, very stressful, a lot of pressure. 

 

Murray had a story of lot of tough losses, but every year he had been finding little bit of improvement which everyone could sense with the way his ranking was going. He admitted that he did not want to go to sleep last night in case his Wimbledon win turned out to be a dream. In the dramatic final game, even after winning two sets against Djokovic, Murray was not able to breathe easy as everyone knows the recovery caliber of Novak and he could bounce back from nowhere and so the environment, but finally the day went in favour of the British man.

 

Marion Bartoli beats Sabine Lisicki in straight sets to win Wimbledon 2013 women's singles final. Winning her first grand slam title with this dominant 6-1, 6-4 victory and dominating throughout the entire tournament without dropping a set shows her caliber and I would say the cup deserves her rather than saying she deserves the cup. Her father Walter was the pillar behind her and he was the one whom she thanked most generously, the one she embraced most tenderly when it was all over. Her happiness reflected in her words. She expressed her joy as “You went through pain, you went through tears, and so in those five or 10 seconds before you shake the hand of your opponent you feel almost like you are not walking any more on Earth.” Bartoli has established a reputation as a fast learner. She has recorded an IQ of score of 175, as well as showcasing ability this fortnight to recite the Fibonacci sequence by rote. 

Bartoli had won £1.6m for her first grand slam title and when she was asked about that she replied "I don't even know how much I won, so it will be a surprise and that's not what I'm thinking about right now, I don't even realize I won Wimbledon so the first step is for me to actually realize that I won Wimbledon, then we'll see what is happening with the money."The opponent in the final Sabine Lisicki dissolved in tears after the first set as she had not offered even a glimpse of her best. As Lisicki began to cry midway through the second set, Bartoli said she wanted to "give her a hug" but her empathy is matched by her drive and her determination to win.

 

Rafael Nadal wins Eighth French Open Title

Rafael Nadal became the first man to win the same Grand Slam tournament eight times after beating David Ferrer 6-3 6-2 6-3 on Sunday with all his trademark shots - back-foot, inside-out forehand, sizzling and spinning. Rafael Nadal was sidelined by a serious knee injury for nearly eight months and he said that he had feared winning an eighth French Open title would be "impossible". But his comeback has been remarkable, with Roland Garros his seventh title in nine tournaments, and he leads the 2013 standings with 43 wins and just two defeats. 2013 has been a remarkable year for him. Ferrer was playing in his first Grand Slam final against a man he had only beaten four times in 23 matches.

All-time win-loss ratio at French Open

59-01:  Rafael Nadal

58-14:  Roger Federer

58-17:  Guillermo Vilas

53-12:  Ivan Lendl

53-14:  Jaroslav Drobny 

Most wins at a Grand Slam

	Titles	Tournament
Rafael Nadal	8	French Open
Richard Sears	7	US C'ships
William Renshaw	7	Wimbledon
Bill Larned	7	US C'ships
Bill Tilden	7	US C'ships
Pete Sampras	7	Wimbledon
Roger Federer	7	Wimbledon

Sampras ended up with 14 and Roger Federer has 17 but they're the only men who've won more than Nadal.

DJOKOVIC BAGS AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2012

The tennis has got a great opening in the year 2012 with the longest, surely the hardest and arguably the greatest Grand Slam final in history. The visual treat for tennis game fans all over the world lasted for almost six hours and finally ended up with Novak Djokovic’s victory over Rafael Nadal. I understand just because a match is long, it does not necessarily follow that the quality has to be high. But I find this as one of the greatest matches ever played with so much heat. This is Novak’s third Australian Open title and his fifth Grand Slam trophy. Also it was his seventh successive win in a final and his third consecutive victory over Nadal in a Grand Slam final. I personally felt the match ended with two winners though literally only one title was awarded. 

Nadal was looking so strong, determined with lot of passion and he was never going to give in. Still Djokovic beated him and he seemed unshakable. He won the Australian Open with 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5 with some pulsating events in the final set. The opening set had been long but not exciting and the next two sets had been more or less one-way traffic. Then, in the fourth set, just when Nadal looked to be on his way home, the Spaniard pounced. From 3-4 and 0-40 down in that set, Nadal exploded into action. In five points the match had been turned on its head. After five-and-a-half hours, both were still dead level at two sets all and 4-4 and deuce. Nadal was not going to give in and Djokovic too. Finally Djokovic moved into the driving seat by winning the last eight points of the set, the last four on Nadal's serve.

Post match, Novak expressed that he was playing against one of the greatest players ever. And also admitted that Nadal is mentally strong, and he always comes up with his best game and best shots at the right moments. But still when he was 4‑2 down, he pushed himself up to the limit. It was obvious on the court for everybody who has watched the match that both of us, physically, took the last drop of energy that they had from their bodies.