Not Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer Wins Australian Open
January 27, 2008 by Albert Bianchi
Filed under Sports Rumors, Tennis
For the first time since 2005, someone who doesn’t wear capri pants and isn’t a robot sent from the future to dominate tennis won a major open. That non-robot normal-pants-wearer is 20-year-old Serbian Novak Djokovic. Djokovic dropped the first set to unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga — his first set lost in the entire open — but rallied to win the next three. Djokovic is the youngest Australian Open winner since 1985, two years before he was born. Perhaps Djokovic and Tsonga will be the newcomers who challenge Nadal’s clay stranglehold and Federer’s everything-else dominance. Maybe they’ll lead some sort of double initial consonant revolution. We’ll see, but for now, Djokovic is excited all the same.
In Australia, Djokovic’s intensity actually spins the opposite way, because of the Coriolis effect.
Photo Credit: TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images
What, didn’t you hear The Feder-ator in the press con after his semifinal loss? He told everyone—wait for it—”I’ll be back.”
(It’s OK to groan now!)