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Djokovic vs Nadal - what a match!
Posted by Claudia Moser
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I admit: I
am not a tennis player, but I do enjoy watching it and since Australian Open
had this amazing match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic and I could not
resist watching it, spending my Sunday morning somehow different than I
imagined (for example taking a walk with Peter, some reading, you know stuff
for the soul or mind), but no here I was, shouting, getting all agitated due to
match which actually did not influence in any way my life, but it was so
amazing!
At one
point I thought, how their bodies must have felt, but their brains did not
allow any pain. They jumped, twiched, twirled, gave everthing, sweated,
focused. I never felt such a presence from two players, you could actually ‘touch’
their concentration.
So many
tight points, so much energy and force behind the balls, the speed was simply
amazing.
And then
the tie break in the fourth game, oh dear me, I really thought I will have a
heart attack, so exciting, so dramatic, so full of life.
The
resilience, the coolness, the strenght, the stuborness, the involvement, the
dedication to the moment.
At one
point I could not resist the tension anymore and I stood up in my living room,
jumping around, shouting, pacing and trying to cope with this match. Come on,
someone must win, after four hours and then the tie break, can one of you end
this? Please!
Come on Novak!
Well yes, I
am his fan, he is such an amazing player, not that Nadal is not good, please do
not get me wrong!
But no,
Nadal nails it, after 88 minutes for the fourth game, he is still there, so
here we go, another coffee, another water, a new game is to be played.
I need a
rest, I honestly do, I feel under so much pressure, a small amount from what
these two guys must have felt.
Where do
they take so much energy? Do explain how they manage to get so fresh after more
than 4 hours of playing? Tennis is my mind a true battle against your oponent,
you don’t fight the time, you simply try to be better than the other, it
involved technique, intelligence and the ability of foreseeing what the other
might do next.
Well I post this review now after 5 hours of an amazing time spend in front of the TV, when I stilll believe that Novak will win, somehow the result does not count, right? The feelings which I had (and still have) were and still are GREAT!
Well I post this review now after 5 hours of an amazing time spend in front of the TV, when I stilll believe that Novak will win, somehow the result does not count, right? The feelings which I had (and still have) were and still are GREAT!
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