Nadal Makes History Again!
Rafa Nadal is awesome, the greatest player ever, in my opinion, not just for his ATP and Grand Slam titles but also his contribution to the history of tennis. In 2019 alone, Rafa has achieved a record 34 Masters 1000 titles and become the only person in history to win the most amount of titles at a particular Grand Slam when he won his 12 th Roland Garros Grand Slam title. But what makes him especially impressive for me is his incredible athleticism, reaction time, and speed around the court (which seems to me even more sublime this year at Roland Garros). In addition, Rafa has a rarer talent, which I call the rubber ball effect. By this I mean that he has an incredible bounce effect in his explosive power movement and running on court, as well as an unbelievable flexibility enabling him to turn his body every which way yet still have power on his shot. One example of his speed, flexibility and variety of shot making which I enjoyed at RG was his Bahrami shot, as I call it, when, ...