Prince Tennis Balls
prince tennis balls Prince of Tennis? okay...i was wondering if anyone knew in which episode a boy named kintarou tooyama falls from a tree and lands on sakuno and after he eats some of her rice ...
prince tennis balls
 Prince of Tennis? okay...i was wondering if anyone knew in which episode a boy named kintarou tooyama falls from a tree and lands on sakuno and after he eats some of her rice balls and compliments her on her cooking...and ryoma shows hints of jealousy....i wanted to know which episode this was in...Thanks you in advance! it was ova episode 14, the national tournament |
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King..
Rafael Nadal has become the first man in 28 years to claim both the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season since Bjorn Borg in 1980 and he claimed the second of those titles in some style on centre court, beating reigning Champion Roger Federer 6-4 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-7 (8-10) 9-7 after over four-and-a-half hours worth of play as the clock struck 21:15.
The match itself will go down as the longest men's single's final of all time but the history books cannot possibly record the pure brilliance which the crowd and televison audience were treated to as night-time fell on South West London.
It would be impossible to analyse the whole match and nigh on impossible to evoke the intensity of the final in words so I'll concentrate on the final three sets, which in the end made all the difference to an encounter which for many will be considered as the greatest match of all time where the betting trends see-sawed almost a dramatically as the final itself.
After going two sets down in a Wimbledon final to a player such as Rafael Nadal many would have given up right there and then but then again there are not many like Roger Federer and the Swiss player came out with a game-plan for the next set and one which undoubtedly worked.
The current World number one slowly and calmly picked off as many points as he could against Nadal's serve, looking for a breakthrough but at the same time never over exhurting himself. He made sure that there was enough left in the tank not just for the remainder of the set but the match itself.
No break came on the Spaniard's serve but almost on Federer's. Nadal reeled into a 0-40 lead before Federer did what all true greats must do and composed himself to win - in what seemed the blink of an eye - five straight points and save his service game. The British weather then intervined as it so often does once more, forcing the players back into the dressing rooms with the set score reading 5-4 to Federer and Nadal to serve..
After a tense 80 minutes the players then returned to the court to give it another go. Nadal held his serve and in turn so did Federer before the set entered a tie-break. Neither player had lost a breaker at Wimbledon this year before this but in last years final there were two between the pair - Federer claimed both.
Once more the 'Fed Express' came out all guns blazing, hitting some World class defensive shots as Nadal hammered forward many ferocious left-handed forehands before Federer came up with a few thunderous strokes of his own, taking the tie-break on an ace 7-3.
The break gave Federer some belief - as if he needed any - that he could overturn Nadal as so many before him had failed. Again Roger kept his composure as he was sent running around the court by a player so famed for his wristy action on the other side of the net.
There were a couple of hairy moments for the Champion as he went behind on his serve 0-30 before sending down a couple of aces and a another pair of superbly crafted points to save his service game. A break in this set - inveitably - never came and down to the tie-break we went once more and this was one to stand side by side with that of the great Borg / McEnroe breaker two decades ago.
Federer broke Nadal's serve before the Spaniard raced into a 5-2 lead seemingly out of nowhere and had the balls in his hand, two serves and two points away from being crowned the Champion of Wimbledon but as the live betting will show there was still a lot more drama left to follow.
Both men's names were being chanted as Nadal stepped up to serve the first point, he double faulted. Federer then won the second point to almost stun the Centre Court crowd who by this time thought they had seen it all.
He steadied himself once more to reel of two more points and bring up set-point which he somehow inexplicably missed, sending a forehand wide and letting Nadal back into the breaker. Nadal then brought up Championship point with a running passing shot with Federer seemingly pefectly placed to pick of the shot but his oponent then came back with an equally outrageous pass of his own on the backhand side.
After such heart-stopping tennis Federer finally took the breaker to eight and sent us all into a fifth set and it seemed as though the match were never to finish.
Light was dimming around the Capital and across the Country where thousands will have been glued to their screens and the games came and went, magnificent shot followed another equally exquisit shot as neither player was able to break serve, that was until the 15th game of the set.
Like Muhammad Ali, Nadal forced his rival onto the ropes but Federer continued to defend, saving three more break points before his younger oponent managed to squeeze an error out, forcing Federer into a forehand error meaning that all that was left was to serve out the match and land the greatest prize of all that tennis has to offer.
Federer saved yet another Championship point such is his desire and reuctance to quit but Nadal's moment came when the five-time Wimbledon Champion netted and the 22-year-old fell to the floor in delight before climbing up into the players' box where he was embraced by Father, Mother and Uncle. Overcome with joy and draped in the Spanish flag he then climbed over the BBC commentary box to be congratualted by the Prince and Princess of his homeland.
I told you it was nigh on impossible to express the intensity and emotion of such a great final in words but as Wimbledon prepares for the 2009 Championships where a roof will feature on Centre Court for the first time you would be forgiven for praying for rain, if only for a re-run of this epic encounter.
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