Thursday, December 23, 2010

Can Rafael Nadal Win a Calendar Grand Slam in 2011?

Can Rafael Nadal win 4 slams next year? I know how that question seems, but come on! Is this question as ludicrous as it seems? Effectively, he did win three slams this year, didn't he? So, expecting him to win a few more slams next year is not so over the top, is it? But can this "few more" function as the fortunate No. 4? Thatrrrs the true question.

Prediction is not such an simple move to make. In the end, Steve Tignor, otherwise an extremely gifted tennis writer, has recently acquired a notorious trustworthiness of jinxing players. Mats Wilander has been making a joke of himself for hundreds of years. And let's remember Simon Reed. Legend has it that whoever Reed accumulates to win a tournament is doomed for sure. But McEnroe is within genuine form these days. He seems to be finding most of the predictions just right (which wasn't the case a while back). In the end, he is mostly of the individuals who picked up Rafa to win Wimbledon and the US Open?aso ingenious of McEnroe to pick the world No. one to win a tournament?aand he won!

And today, McEnroe says he'd opt for Rafa once more to win each and every slam next year until finally proved otherwise. His argument is that Nadal may be the toughest participant to conquer at this time inside a five-set match inside a grand slam on any floor, on a day?athe man is an animal. So, may be the question?acan Rafael Nadal win four slams following calendar year?astill as ridiculous as it sounds? Yes, it is (sorry Johnny). In the end, just how long has it been because a person won four slams in a season? So, can Nadal do what he stopped Federer twice from achieving? In short, can he win a calendar slam.According to Navratilova, in france they Open is really a "gimme" for Nadal. I concur with that evaluation but i quickly am reminded of those peculiar out-of-this-world occurrences in that fourth round match from the French Open '09, after which Nadal skipped Wimbledon to recuperate from his knee injuries. When he returned, he became a punching bag for all the top-10 players for as many as 10 months!

However, I'm forced to ask this query: Isn't Rafael Nadal wise? In other words, is Rafael Nadal, you never know what ramifications that loss had on his remaining season, this type of fool to allow that take place once again (yes, you heard me appropriate)? I am talking about, he must have learnt his lessons from 2009. In the end, isn't expecting Nadal, when he's supposedly in his prime, not to win the French Open 2011 akin to thinking, "Can the lightning strike twice?" So, I guess betting on Rafael Nadal to win the French Open 2011 is really a a secure bet and no, even Simon Reed can't do a lot about this. But how about the Australian Open 2011? Just about everyone in the world understands the fact that Rafael Nadal has the opportunity to function as the 1st individual given that Rod Laver to win four slams in a row, which will get his slam tally into double digits and as a side effect some more individuals will hop on the Rafael Nadal GOAT bandwagon.

But, there's one more player who would be aware of all this: Roger Federer. Making no error, he did beat Rafa in WTF London fairly convincingly. But the real question is, can he do exactly the same at up coming calendar year's Australian Open? Right after Federer's WTF conquer Nadal, many people now think that Federer has eventually identified the magical method to conquer Rafael Nadal, thereby adding an interesting twist to the dramatic matchup.

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