on friday's semifinal clash Novak Djokovic ousted frenchmen Jo-Wilfred Tsonga in four sets 7-6 6-2 7-6 6-3 and entered his first final at wimbledon .on monday he would also become world no. 1 according to the south african atp ranking.
On the other hand spaniard and world no.1 Rafael Nadal was up against britain's hope and fourth seeded Andy Murray. Rafa defeated murray in four sets 5-7 6-2 6-2 6-4.
the match started off well no breaks were done until 5-5. murray served and was at 5-6 rafa was serving but somehow he lost his control over that game and murray played some extraordinary shorts to get the set 7-5.
in the second set it was 2-2 when rafa somehow managed to get his first break of the match 40-30 aftr and hour and 13 minutes. And soon rafa converted that break into his game.
further rafa's extraordinary game play and some superior shots the banana shot and the vicious top spin and forehand groundstokes gave him advantage breaking murray twice and was 5-2 .
he won the set with an ease. some same kinda situation also happened in the third set where he early break murray and was serving again 5-2 and won the set again 5-2.
the fourt set also as earlier rafa broke murray but only once and some unexpected shots probably play of the day we had a chance to see. when rafa is on center court playing semi final you must expect something from nadal . and he has such great level of tennis that you are sure to see some of it. finally rafa won 5-7 6-2 6-2 6-4.
practically speaking murray is also responsible he was a bit groaning in pain and also he show a lot of anger on court on himself plus rafa was calm and quiet and took advantage of this plus he showed off his game and beat murray once again.
later on in a short interview rafa said "i am very sorry for andy he played batter and he deserved to be in the finals , but i wish him luck for the rest of his career". he even said "playing against djokovic at the finals would be a lot more difficult on sunday but i try playing my best ".
rafa now faces novak djokovic though in the last four meeting novak djokovic won all four this year but on grass rafa has a 2-0 lead and in granslam final rafa leads 1-0 at us open 2010 . let us see what happens at finals of wimbledon 2011 on sunday evening!
SUNDAY SHOWDOWN WIMBL EDON: GENTLEMEN'S SINGLES
RAFAEL NADAL (1) ESP VS NOVAK DJOKOVIC (2) SRB
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