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Thanks for the history lessong SF and spindles (genuinely; and unlike most here, I don't utilize sarcasm).
I watched a majority of both the mens' and womens' finals over the weekend, and while the womens' match was more closely-contested affair, and I actually felt it should have gone to a third and deciding set, the better of the two won that day.
In watching the men's finals however, there was a point in which I thought Soderling could have gained an advantage over Nadal, and that was if he capitialized on his first break chance early in the first set, and gone up two games to love over Nadal. But after that, I'll agree: Nadal is just a maestro on clay. I don't know how I almost forgot how unbelievably punishing he can look against anyone on the red surface, it is unreal. And while only suffering one defeat on clay in the past half-decade seems impressive, the one thing that kept it interesting was that one defeat came at the hands and play of the very same Robin Soderling just a year ago (yeah, I know, Nadal was hobbled and subsequently had surgery after that loss, but a win's a win, and a loss is a loss).
Onto Wimbledon countdown now, I suppose.
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