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Passion unparalled
The Indian contingent has shone bright with
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati winning
the doubles title, both at Wimbledon in
1999 and at Roland Garros in 2001. What is
amazing though, is the passion that lawn tennis
garners from its players as well as its fans. The
love story of the two legends of the grass court,
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf is nothing short
of a wonderful fairytale. The horrendous drama
of Monica Seles being stabbed by a fanatic
Steffi Graf fan in Germany, just after she won
the US Open and the Australian Open created
palpable tension. The charismatic but short-
tempered Boris Becker and his racket breaking
history is a legend. The history of lawn tennis Left: Roger Federer on the clay court
of Roland Garros
has brought forth legends, in their own right,
for us to admire and be withheld for simply the Below, left: Rafael Nadal on the
same court
game they play, the passion they show for it.
Court royals
The current king of the grass court, Roger Federer exuberates the calmness of his
predecessor, Pete Sampras while the undoubted king of the clay court, Rafael Nadal
is surely comparable to the likes legends such as Andre Agassi. The reigning queens
are not to be left out in the race. Justine Henin shows tenacity, similar to that of
Navratilova, Kim Clijsters exudes patience while the ethereal beauty of the erstwhile
queens is carried on by Maria Sharapova and others. There’s beauty, grace, power,
passion, love, emotion, shrieks of outrage on the courts of these two gigantic
annual events. The best parts of these two events are that they are diametrically
diverse in nature, yet the expectations of the people are so high that it automatically
brings forth an out of the world performance each year from the players taking part
in these two tournaments.
It doesn’t matter where you are from or whom you have outplayed, what matters
in the end is simply whether you won The Championship, Wimbledon or the French
Open or were you lucky enough to win both!
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