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There is a place for
who is presently
a brilliant eminence
as a tennis broadcaster
Yesterday
Martina described
a 4th round match
as
"the most exciting match
of the tournament"
This was an accurate description
and I, for one,
nearly had a coronary
in front of my TV
cheering for
However,
the next televised match
featured
+
and it was
—stroke for stroke—
twice as exciting
as the previous match
simply because
it was twice as long as
the previous match
If you don't know
who Rafael Nadal is,
suffice it to say
he is a direct descendant of
Albert Einstein
with a level
of athletic talent
combining
Tom Brady, Michael Jordan,
and Babe Ruth
Since 2005,
Nadal had played
a total of 108 tennis matches
at the French Open
He won 105 of them
and lost only
three of them
But yesterday,
he nearly lost to
!!!
I forgot
which broadcaster
said it but the poetic
closing comment
about the victor
of this
four-and-a-half hour
is something
out of Shakespeare:
WILL LIVE
TO FIGHT
ANOTHER DAY
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