However, it lacks a little bit of the luster as his nemesis Nadal was not around in the finals, which would have made it more speacial. Remember when Nadal finally won Wimbledon? Were it been against Andy Roddick or someone, it would not have been as great.

On the other hand, he would still have been hailed as one of the greatest players ever to have entered a tennis court even if he hadn’t won the at Rolland Garros. Pete Samprass did not, but still that doesn’t make him a lesser legend.

Guys… I’ve been lucky enough to watch the wee end of Jimmy Connors, Edburg etc and then the amazing era of Samprass and Agassi. There have been a lull in Men’s tennis after that and now it is back. We are in a golden age of Tennis and we’ll tell our grandchildren how we watched the great Federer and Nadal sweat it out in the Grandslam Finals.