Nobody's Perfect

Koshin Egal

With basketball and hockey deep into their championship season and also baseball starting again, one could be forgiven if they weren’t paying any attention to the French Open. I would be guilty of that as well. However, Rafael Nadal the undisputed number one male tennis player in the world lost today. Why is this a big deal? Nadal had previously never loss at the French Open ever!

Nadal the four-time French Open champion was gunning for his fifth in a row. If he had accomplished this feat he would have broken the tie between he and Bjorn Borg. Ironically Nadal had beaten Roger Federer at Wimbledon in arguably the greatest match ever last year. When Nadal did this he prevented Federer from also breaking a tie with Borg for most Wimbledon championships in a row. People were anticipating a French Open final between Nadal and Federer and why not since they have met each other in the past three years. However, Robin Soderling had a say in preventing this predictable final.

First Lebron can’t keep up his end of the bargain by meeting Kobe in the NBA finals and now Nadal will not be meeting Federer at this year’s French Open Final. Even though Nadal has been the best tennis player for the last year, there was a feeling that Federer could finally breakthrough Nadal at the French Open. Maybe now Federer can finally claim that elusive French Open he has been chasing to complete his career set.

In a way it is kind of sad that Nadal’s streak is over at the French Open but eventually a loss was inevitable. All great streaks no matter how spectacular have to come to an end. Somewhere Borg must be smiling at his countrymen Soderling.