Nadal in a losing effort at Wimbledon
Thought you might enjoy reading a news wire report of Nadal's loss today. Seems rather interesting because it wasn't but just a few days ago that he swept through the French Open and he sure seemed fit then...
LONDON (AP) -- In one of Wimbledon's greatest upsets, an ailing Rafael Nadal was knocked out in straight sets Monday by a player ranked 135th - the Spaniard's first loss in the opening round of a Grand Slam event.
Steve Darcis of Belgium stunned the two-time champion 7-6 (4), 7-6 (8), 6-4. He ended Nadal's 22-match winning streak and eliminated one of the Big Four of men's tennis on the very first day of the grass-court Grand Slam.
Nadal was sidelined for seven months with a left knee injury after losing in the second round of Wimbledon last year. He seemed to be struggling physically. He was unable to turn on the speed or use his legs to spring into his groundstrokes, limping and failing to run for some shots.
2 comments:
Someone needs to check the sports bookies to see if any unusual action was evident on this match!!
What was he seeded.4th? 5th? Kinda makes you wonder about how much those doing the seeding know about the condition of the players. Kinda hard to believe that one of the top mens players in the world could be in that bad of shape and the seeding body of, arguably, the biggest event in tennis didn' know anything about it.
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