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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Its the FINAL SHOWDOWN!!!

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There are only a few times in sports when you know history will be made before the event even happens. Sure, each champion in any sport will be duly recorded, but certain games and matches are always remembered as being classics or changes of the guard. Some events transcend the normal interest in the sport. Decades from now, the 2008 Wimbledon final Sunday between Federer and Nadal will be remembered. Even if the match itself isn't outstanding or doesn't go 5 sets, the result will be monumental for the victor and put either man even more decisively in the record books.
The final will be the sixth time the elegant Swiss and the muscular Spaniard have met in a grand slam final, bettering the five played by Mats Wilander and Ivan Lendl, and then Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi in the 1980s and 1990s.

Federer has won two on the grass of the All England Club in 2006 and 2007; Nadal has claimed three on his beloved Roland Garros clay in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Never have the stakes been higher.

A victory for Federer will make him the first man since the 19th century to win six Wimbledons in a row.

A win for Nadal, on the other hand, will take him alongside Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg as the only man to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season.

He would also become the first Spanish men's champion since Manuel Santana in 1966.

That Paris annihilation, coupled with Nadal taking Federer to an epic five-set final here in 2007, has led many to suggest that the era of the Swiss superstar's dominance is at an end. Now that Federer has waltzed into his sixth final virtually untroubled, its high time that the Fedex wins on sunday, answers his critics and reimposes his supremacy in the game!!!!

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