FOR tennis icons Nadal, Djokovic and Federer as well as the new rising challengers, noisy crowds mean a lot; if not everything. They played and moved with the rhythm of the cheering noise ‒ until this pandemic came around. For us tennis addicts, who play this game of life until it’s time to hang up the gloves, it’s been frustrating to see our idol, Rafa Nadal. call it quits after leading three dominating sets and then realizing that age really matters.
That’s as far as he could go against the Greek young Jesus look-alike named Stefanos Tsitsipas. While he won the Aussie Open only once in 2009, Rafa always found the hard court a problem. But this time, in search of history to become the winningest tennis champ in history and bypass the leading Federer and due to two fatal mistakes in the third set tie break, he just couldn’t cope up anymore with the Greek gladiator.
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