The Star of Spain Rafael Nadal made history on the
weekend, the Spaniard defeated David Ferrer 7-6(1), 7-5 on Sunday’s Barcelona
Open final-to became the first player in open Era to win two different
tournaments seven times each. This success came just days after he trashed
world number 1-Serbian Novac Djockovic for his 8 consecutive Monte Carlo
Masters title. On Sunday-Nadal, he inflicted Ferrer’s fourth lost at Barcelona
Open finals, the Spaniard saved 12 of 15 break points for his 34 victory on
clay against him, It was his 21st straight win on clay followed up
his eight back to back win in Monte Carlo. No wonder he is called “the
king of clay” indeed he is-but I’ll like to call him “The Bull
King of clay” sound pretty not cool-hey-lets rather leave it there.
The 25 years
old left handed tennis player has a phenomenal record under his belt-in singles
alone is at 568-119, which gives him an incredible 82, 55% winning
ratio-amazing! In Grand Slam Singles results: in 2009 he won his only Australian
open title-he have 6 French Open titles in his collection, followed up with 2
Wimbledon championships and one US Open title-which he achieved in 2010-still
not amazing? Incredible is in it?! In 2008 he won an Olympic Gold medal for
Spain in men’s tennis in Beijing-that just wow!! Nadal-hold on, he has a
stuttering 48 career titles, some can only dream of a quarter.
In doubles-he still perform his magic touch too! As he stand at 97-59
which still gives him an amazing 62. 28%-a C at high school! These goes with 8
titles. He finished runner up in US Open 2004- and third in Australian Open in
2004 and 2005-took second in 2005 Wimbledon tournament-the king of clay for
sure he knows his way around the tennis court. Not so impressive ranking
though-as he is ranked 59- maybe he doesn’t enjoy being around people! As on
singles he enjoys a superb second world ranking and looks as if he wants to
retain that number 1 ranking spot-which he was replaced by current world number
1 Novac Djockovic on 3 July 2011.
He was born in a mixture of a family-as his farther was a business
man and his mother a housewife. His uncle, Miguel Nadal was a soccer player
whiles another Uncle Toni Nadal was a professional tennis player. Rafael had
skills for both soccer and tennis-and was good at both, but when he won his
first tennis title at the age of 8 and at 12 he won Spanish and European tennis
titles-it was clear that tennis was his career. And 17 he beat Roger Federer-to
become the youngest man to reach the third round at Wimbledon since Boris
Becker. And in 2003 he archived the ATP Newcomer of the year award-maybe that
the reason he uses to bit trophies he has won.
Maybe he can sing too, who knows? As he was
featured in Shakira’s Gypsy music video- maybe another career he can pursue one
day-we hope Federer and Ferrer can buy his CD. He even owns a belt named
128036 Rafael Nadal, which was discovered in 2003 at the Observatorio
Austronomico de Mallorca, Spain-and named after the king of clay. I have my
reasons to agree that he is the king of clay- Maybe he is the greatest tennis
player of all time in his generation-I don’t have reasons to decline that, do
you have any? What are your thoughts? Will he became the world number 1 ranked
tennis player again? Lets me love and leave you! From Fanele its-goodbye for now-love you all-stay on-on goxtranews.com for more. One more
record-he has held the second ATP rankings place the longest-232 weeks and
counting…
“Remember it’s always look impossible until it’s done” Written by Fanele ’thenatureboy’ Mbuyazi.
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