I’ve recently lost the will to write. It’s not that everything I’ve been involved in recently has been meaningless, instead it’s just that I really don’t care about any of it.
I do want to (somewhat belatedly) mention that Roger Federer finally won it all at Rolland Garros. I wasn’t dissatisfied with Nadal’s chumping of everyone else there the past few years, though I was tired of Nadal V. Federer in the finals, but Federer taking the title was just something that needed to happen so people could stop talking about how he’d never won it.
I don’t think that Federer will ever win “The Grand Slam,” but there is a reasonable chance that he’ll win Wimbledon and the US Open this year (perhaps even the Masters) and then the Australian Open next year to get the “fiscal year slam”…… I just made that term up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone else is saying it right now too. So far Federer has been pretty solid psychologically, but if ever he was going to have a break it would be after finally winning this title he’s chased so long. I’m sure he wants to win all 4 titles in one year, but winning all 4 in his career is already a feat that only 2 other men have accomplished in the past 40 years. At this point I’m sure that even Federer has to feel like this is the best that’s ever going to come so he should just be happy with it. Hell, there’s even a chance that he’ll never be ranked #1 in the world again! Eh this writing is horrrible today. horrrrriiiiibbbbbllllllle.
As to whether or not any other players have a chance at the grand slam, I thought that Nadal had a shot this year. Within the next few years there might be a certain window between Federer dropping off and no one else really stepping up, but whether he can take advantage of that or not is open to speculation. I’m not that impressed with anyone else in the men’s field right now, but there are guys in the top 10 who have won a major before and have the potential to do it again.
The potential from 1-10 to win any given major tournament is of course the main reason that no one has won the grand slam since the second time Rod Laver did it in 1969. For some reason a lot of people thought that Federer was going to stand atop the world unchallenged until he was on the downslope of his career, but there were guys that got into his way and then up popped Nadal like some sort of fated rival. I honestly can’t remember the last time there were two guys battling it out like that on all surfaces. There have been plenty of high profile battles among top ranked players, but for some reason a lot of guys could never win in one spot or another, and others couldn’t even get to the finals so… yeah.
Well I already said absolutely nothing so I’ll sink back into my feet now. Did I even spell Nadal’s first name right?
