Berdych won the match fair and square, the crowd were really very loud, I think Rafa tried to calm it. As Berdych walked to the net, he put his finger to his mouth as if to hush the crowd, they really appreciated that! Berdych looked very taken aback. The big deal Jill would be more the mocking gesture that Berdych made, whether intentional or not. Looking at this video, I believe it is very intentional and a diss to the crowd in that he silenced their man, regardless of their strong support for Rafa.
In both videos it looks more like Nadal being provocative than either Berdych or Soderling. Soderling changed his racket and went back running ready to return..
Why did he stop serving? And Berdych silenced the crowd, so what? Or maybe something happened during the match that made Nadal say something??? Firstly berdych is a fool. You win the game shake hands end of story no need to get the crowd involved Rafa had every right to tell berdych to keep it in his pants! As for soderling there were no hard feelings there i think it was a misunderstanding on both parts. Firstly soderling ran to get a new racquet for the new balls and then ran back on to the court.
Secondly nadal goes through his normal routine before he serves only to realise he may have not announced the new balls to soderling. The FO Final last night was certainly very heart-warming. Not familiar with that… pretty funny, and no Nadal did not look like he was about to crack… seemed pretty pissed. You are commenting using your WordPress.
Wathing the video of the match later, I thought Federer played better than me overall, but in an atmosphere of high tension he, so eager to complete the foursome of major titles; me, so desperate to banish the ghosts of my exile , I stuck it out. As Carlos Moya saw it, Federer was not fully Federer when he played against me. Carlos said I had beaten him by attrition, badgering him into untypical mistakes for a man of such enormous natural talent. After all I had been through, it was an incredibly emotional moment.
I ran up in the stands, as I had done the year before, and this time it was my father I sought. We hugged hard and we were both crying. Then I hugged my mother, who was also in tears. The thought that filled my mind at that moment of victory was that it as their support that had pulled me through. For my father, I know, that was the moment of greatest joy of my entire career.
Robin Soderling was scheduled to sign autographs in The MO at 1 p. On Stadium Court, Beg to Differ, an a cappella group from Memphis University School, performed a selection of pop standards, and then the national anthem:. Read More. The early January tournaments were warm-ups for the main event of the month, which was the first Grand Slam of the year — the Australian Open. But his debut appearance in Melbourne was short lived, ending in a first-round defeat to Juan Ignacio Chela.
With that, his Australian adventure was over until the following year. His next tournament took him all the way back to Europe — nearly 10, miles away — to Zagreb, Croatia. It had been a long way to go for another first-round defeat, but that was part and parcel of being a professional tennis player. Plain and simple, soderling comes off as unprofessional with his attitude and everyone knows it.
After Nadal made fun of him… Do you really think Soderling got a new racket solely to piss off Nadal? And to top it off, mocks nadal. Soderling Fan Robin Soderling is my Hero!
Why Rafa hates Berdych and Soderling!!! By eezenwa , April 26, am You must be new to tennis. He tossed to serve and someone in the crowd screamed. It distracted him and he missed wildly. And then what? The American way! No wait. What really happened was this: He told the chair umpire to let Nadal hit his first serve again.
A do-over was not required under the rules. Nadal then served again and won the point. A few minutes later, Nadal won , , , , Sportmanship lives.
Smyczek did it at risk to his career moment. Because it stands in such stark contrast to the big story in sports today: the New England Patriots deflating 11 of the 12 footballs used in the AFC title game, theoretically to fit better into the small hands of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. We are too fast to bring in the next generation, and now, in the case of Roger Federer, too quick to kick out the old.
I have something to say about that:. Where most people saw the end for Federer, I saw a beginning. Andre Agassi did it, re-inventing himself and reaching the U. Open final when he was 35, when his back was such a mess and his legs so beaten down that it looked like he was tripping over the paint on the baseline while trying to run down a forehand. A prediction: Federer, who is 32, will now be among the handful of top favorites again at the majors for another two years, and an outside favorite for another year after that.
Last year, he never had a shot. Federer can still run just fine, though not as fast as he used to. Oh, he had the skills, but I thought he was too stubborn to. Stan Wawrinka wins the Australian Open Sunday. The message of Stan Wawrinka and his incredible win at the Australian Open Sunday over Rafael Nadal, a few days after his incredible win over Novak Djokovic, has been twisted a little.
That is not about continuing to try until you have success. It is about redefining success, finding it in the nobility of simply trying and trying no matter how many times you fail. The Big Four had won 34 of the previous 35 majors, going back to Open win.
But at the time, del Potro seemed a likely candidate to join the top group. If not for wrist injuries, maybe he would have. He was The Other Guy in the picture of greatness.
He was good enough to get into that picture, though, which maybe made it more frustrating. Wawrinka said Sunday that he never believed he could win a major until after he had actually done it. The success was in the courage it took him to keep getting up and fighting after crushing and inevitable losses to the greats.
The Australian Open? That was just a bonus. Wawrinka was against Djokovic, against Nadal. Being from Switzerland, Wawrinka also spent his career in the shadow of his friend, Roger Federer.
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