A good Sunday

A few minutes ago Roger Federer managed to scrape through to lift his fifth Wimbledon title beating Nadal. As I have predicted it was not a walk in the park. I thought Federer would decimate Nadal as an answer to his agonising loss against him in French open final. But that's not quite how the script was written.

I have not liked Nadal for his style of playing tennis. He belonged more in athletics than in tennis. But lately he has shown a class of his own and with his never-give-up attitude he's become a formidable force to reckon with. As a result my dislike for Nadal has been decreasing and I hope he converts his aggression towards playing better tennis than celebrating the points won. And I believe he deserved to win today. Federer seemed to agree with me in his post-match talk :)

As I said it was not a walk in the park for Federer. He was not very skillful and made many unforced errors when playing back-hand. He did come up with brilliant shots nevertheless, especially in the fifth set when he first broke Nadal.

I am happy my favourite won and I wish Nadal better luck next year. But it looks very unlikely that he will lift Wimbledon trophy aloft as long as Federer is in this kind of form.

This is the second half of the Sunday. The first is below. Sorry for writing it the other way around, but as long as I am the writer-cum-editor, it's up to me :)

Kimi won the second race in a row and seemed to be contending for driver's championship much to my pleasure. He looked quick and the car has improved a lot after they struggled to match McLaren's pace in the past few weeks. It's my firm belief(I have no idea why I've it) that given two cars of same specification, there's no one that can out pace Kimi. Alonso is quick and has this kanck of street-smartness which puts his ahead of Kimi at times but not quite skillful as Kimi.

Apropos, coming to the race Kimi could not get past Hamilton, who I think struggled, but caused him enough problems to such an extent that McLaren had to make a pit stop for Hamilton to relieve him off the pressure. Kimi has managed to maintain his lead after the first pit stop. But I couldn't quite figure out how Alonso took the lead after he came out of pits.

But, thankfully, Kimi went past Alonso after his second pit stop. I thought when I watched the race and still think that McLaren made a blunder when they stopped Alonso for second pit stop. Just wrong timing!! When he came out he had a huge traffic before him and lost crucial time while Kimi was increasing the lead. Ferrari executed a perfect pit stop for him and he came out ahead of Alonso and went on to win the race.

Raikkonen is still 18 points behind Hamilton and there are only 8 more races to go. I am going to keep my fingers crossed.

Amidst all the rumble, I forgot to mention Massa. If he did not have to start at the end of grid, I am not sure whether Hamilton would have made it to a podium finish.