Speculation abounded on whether the world no.1 in tennis would be dethroned. Federer, the greatest of all time tennis player couldn't muster enough strength against upstarts competing close at his heels in the closely-fought arena of top-class tennis.
This year, Nadal played high-quality tennis to dethrone five-time champion Swiss Roger Federer with a block-buster 6-4, 6-7(5/7), (6-7) (8/0), 9-7 win in what was easily one of the greatest Grand Slam finals of all time. Spain hasn't had it this good in sport for so long. Close on the heels of Euro Cup 2008 victory that came after 44 years, came the victory in Wimbledon, after 42 years.
Nadal became only the third man to win French Open and Wimbledon in the same season and the first since Bjorn Borg in 1980, while giving Spain its first men's Wimbledon champion since Manuel Santana of the grass-is -for-cows fame won it in 1966. Nadal added a Wimbledon title to his four of French Opens, shattering Federer's dreams of a historic sixth successive trophy. Nadal may not be the expert on grass as he is on clay but the 22-year-old Spaniard is widely seen as the top men's player.
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