It looks like the sleeveless Spaniard has a good chance, at 2 sets up, to ending Federererererers 5 year undefeated run.
Goodness me. Now Nadals injured.
Drama.
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I want Raf to win.
Coz once I went to Majorca n it were propa sunni.
Big up Nadal
A bit of passion vs Federer's expressionless terminator style.
federers passionate
he cries a lot.
he reminds me of....
the lead male in The Big Bang Theory.
c'mon roger
don't let me down
talk about
copyright infringement
you snooze you looze
I hope Nadal wins, cos Spain won the Euros and it'll make his entire life.
i want nadal even though i dont like tennis very much
my brother wants federer and my family were trying to annoy me by supporting him, so hes doing me proud.
hes less smug than federer too
c'mon Nadal!
stupid rain break
i like nadal
i hope he wins
does anyone support federer?
i'm in love with him
I prefer him to Nadal,
but, hey, it's tennis.
After we've read tomorrow's back pages it doesn't matter for another 48 weeks.
Well, we're at the wire.
i want roger to win this set
a five-setter would be the tits.
also have some money on federer to win in five sets...
I want whoever's losing to win
just to say
this is fucking epic right now.
Too right
that tie break was ridiculous
blimey
this is a great match
I'm kinda cheering for Nadal I think. So close.
woah!
this is so good.
EP
PIC!
1 set now
Whoever wins is the greatest player in the world.
Doesn't get much bigger than this.
i didn't think it would be better than last year.
seems i was wrong. what a bloody great match.
i want Federer to win, Nadal is on steroids and has an obviously massive wanking arm. why would anyone want the spaniards to be celebrating two things this year?!
I can't watch any more
I'm afraid that Roger "Smug is my middle name" Federer is going to win.
I was going ballistic at the TV. He was out of the match, and he's barely matched Nadal at all. Then a fortuitous bit of rain, and a couple of rocket aces and URGH.
But Nadal is clearly tired now. God I hate Federer today.
I was sitting in the living room
with the family as set number four was reaching it's climax. Silence in the room. My northern grandma pipes up:
"There's Gremlins at Wimbledon this year."
this is pissing me off
I watched all the game up to the rain-break
waited for them to return
watched up until 5-5 in the 4th and the only tv channel in Sweden that is showing the match ended the live coverage because they'd run over their scheduled timetable
grrr
I'm listening to commentary on 5live via the internets
not quite the same
if you're that bothered.
you can pay a quick cheeky sum and watch it on the Wimbledon homepage i think.
don't quote me on that.
nah
not that bothered but it totally sucks that Swedish TV4 can't just stick with their broadcast and fuck their sunday night lame topical-comedy-quiz followed by silent witness :(
OMG
I have an irational hatred of Nadal and I love Fed but i just dont care who wins anymore, this is just so good.
SO SO GOOD!
MON FED!
fed
owes hawkeye a shag after this game.
[Insert joke about Hawkeye's member being
computer verified in or out of Federer]
Will it finish today?
Argh
damn rain
raaaaaaiiinnnn :[[[[
Tim Henman talks like Jack Dee
Boris Becker is the world's campest heterosexual sex maniac.
hahah
:D
:D
CMON ROGER!
...
ITs a bit odd seeing Gavin Rosdale & Gwen Stefani every 10 minutes.
This game showing the best and worst of tennis
Best: Awesome skill and tension
Worst: Thousands of middle class english people chanting "Roger, Roger, Roger"
I thought they were shouting
'Rafa'?
How do you win a set in tennis?
is it first to 6 games but you have to win by a certain amount or something??
by two sets
games
^I think
you meant two clear games. No tiebreak in the fifth set.
Which means
the way it's going, it could last for some time yet.
by 2 games
so 6-4 or better. if it gets to 5-5 then you can win 7-5, 6-6 means a tiebreaker, unless it's the final set where they keep playing forever until someone is 2 clear.
lol at gwen clearly bored out of her brains
A break!
Nadal to serve for teh match...
Here we go
Match point!
come on nadal
win the game!
OH NOSSSS!
Will he ever give up.
Come on Nadal!
I knew he'd finally do it.
He was by far the best player in this match.
What a game!!
its done
Noooooo!
you have no idea how gutted i am.
I'm well pleased.
Glad that someone beat Federer finally.
Nadal was so so good this year.
Well done to him.
:D
imagine if he had fallen off that wet roof!
I was thinking that...
Also was thinking about how funny it would be if a member of staff told him to get down as it was dangerous or something.
Hehe...
That was such an epic game.
Genius.
yeah and so glad Rafa did it
Seconded.
He so deserved it.
What a player.
he was the better player all round
why did that dickmunch nadal win?
R.FED 4 LYFE!
Because he was the better player, maybe?
he should have killed it far earlier.
Why doesnt Federer
show some sportsmanship. The miserable cunt with his cunting cardigan
yeah the smug fucker isn't so smug now is he!
Rafa, so gracious too!
I don't think he seemed particularly bitter.
It's kind of fair enough.
He's used to winning Wimbledon. Funny seeing him speak about his loss.
Nadal's a really good winner. He seemed eager to shake Federer's hand, and seems ery gracious. What a great guy.
Good attitude, fantastic player.
The Spaniards are rolling in awards this year!
He can't be in the best mood
after losing this final.
'smug' and 'miserable'? What a load of rubbish
he's normally smug
i do feel sorry when anyone loses, but he just annoys me a little.
is it just me
but hearing sue barker (or pat i forget) interview them is a total anticlimax.
one sounds like a rat drowning and the other sounds like quasimodo having been kicked in the teeth by a gargoyle.
good game nonetheless
i don't know.
Sounds like you're just in a bad mood, heh.
Can't expect much more from two people that don't have English as their first language.
yeah i am
i've been watching this match all day
and somehow my presentation due tommorrow is yet to be done.
whilst nadal has just won a trophy and £750,000 in the same length of time.
federer's english is pretty good from what ive heard
its not surprising he wasnt feeling that talkative though
if I had just lost that match
the last person in the world i'd want shoving a microphone in my face would be Sue Barker.*
*possibly a euphemism.
if i had just won that match
i would probably feel the same
also
that sounds a bit more like gay slang than a euphemism
BAMOS!!!
rafa = god :D
yaayyyy!
NADAL
FUCK YES
that was one amazing tennis match. I'm quite stressed now, phew
single best
tennis match I can ever recall viewing. Exhausted, yet I haven't moved an inch all afternoon. And evening.
im exhausted too
i think that's the most exercise i've had all week
yeah, bloody hell
i was literally (yes literally) on the edge of my seat for most of that. Absolutely brilliant match.
I really wish I'd been able
to actually WATCH that final set
bah!
Fantastic Final set
so I heard
but I was limited to 5live commentary
http://drownedinsound.com/articles/3598792#r3599578
*sigh*
Nadal
reminds me of latka, what a sweety.
Thank fuck Rafa won.
He should have finished it in the tie break for fourth set for starters.
Couldn't help feeling a little sorry for Federer, but I really think he was outplayed and outclassed for 2/3 of the match, and he did benefit from that fortuitous burst of rain. If it hadn't rained, Nadal would have finished it at 3 sets. Nearly certainly.
that was amazing
Rafa deserved to win just to stop Federer banging about making history, it also serves him right for going about getting 7 wimbledon titles in a row before he had won the sixth, what a cunt. also why didn't he applaud rafa properly when he was picking his trophy, just a half hearted arrogant swiss cunt of an applause, viva nadal! hope nadal now stops federer from winning all other tournaments ever now.
That was epic
I nearly cried.
And why do I just want to hug Rafa? He is a mountain of a man who could probably snap me in two with his little finger but all I see when I look at him is a little boy who needs a hug.
That didn't quite come out how I meant it to...
he looked all little with the jacket on
and the trophy, i just wanted to say well done champ and give him a little hug
One of the most amazing sporting battles I've ever seen.
By the end I was a cripple, sitting there applauding quietly to myself at the majesty of it all and getting all emotional.
Fucking phenomenal.
for the first time ever
i REALLY wanted Federer to win. :(
That was brilliant stuff
and Gavin Rossdale has gone up in my estimation while Gwen Stefani has sunk even lower.
Moodiest looking person I've EVER seen at Wimbledon.
Rossdale was getting excited though. Bless him and his TENNIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS face.
How could someone sit there
utterly expressionless for seven hours?! What a knob.
I also think
more people should bite trophies
to be fair
she is heavily pregnant and so doubtless would've struggled to leap about happy-style
A smile wouldn't have gone amiss though.
All she did was sit there and run her fingers through her hair while looking miserable. I'm going to write to Gavin Rossdale and ask him if he can take me next time.
GRATE MATCH
Totally ruined my sunday though. Sat down early afternoon, next time i look at the clock it's bloody 9.30! Still, TOTALLY WOR$$$$TH it. Federer is still my favourite though. I like them both, but i was rooting for him.
I'm pissed I missed this, it sounded amazing.
I was in a car on the way back from Scarborough and made do with sporadic texts. hmph.
An incredible game of tennis!
I am a big Federer fan but am also a fan of Rafa.
Good to see Fed put in some fight as you so rarely get to see it.
Nadal is so strong and some of the balls he gets to is just ridiculous.
I really don't find Fed smug, he has alsways been as gracious in defeat as he is in victory.
Hopefully this will spur him on to reclaim his throne next year.
But well played Nadal, what a fucking competitor that guy is.
This match could do more for tennis than any other match ever.
Both of them are re-writting the history books in what is possible on a tennis court. I'm already looking forward to next year.
Gutted that Federer didn't win
missed the last three sets due to being at Neil Young but watched it all on bbci when I got in. Incredible stuff. I just hope Federer wins the US Open because I don't want him to have a miserable Christmas.
Glad Nadal won
he deserved it more and though Federer seems like a nice guy he's just too much of a cardie wearing ponce for me
an improvement on last year's blazer though
Probably the best game of tennis
I've ever seen. Truly an amazing sporting battle. I was ready to collapse after watching it.
Best final since Goran won it
I would have put Ivanesivic but my spelling is against me.
that's how i'd spell it
don't know if it's right mind you.