In a few weeks, players from the ATP and WTA professional tennis circuits will descend on the All-England Club for (...cue trumpets...) The Championships Wimbledon.
Roger Federer, the top men's player in the world (and apparently for some people -- ever to exist), should be hungry and desperate for revenge after falling short once again at the soon-to-be-deemed Rafael Nadal Open in France. Nadal steamrolled Federer in the finals by a score of 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.
Ouch. Talk about a spanking!
This one should sting Federer for a while -- maybe leading all the way up to his own discussion of retirement. After all, there's certainly nothing fun about being embarrassed like that (has a #1 ever lost that badly?). As the ghosts of outstanding tennis careers past (calling Pete Sampras... paging Andre Agassi... Justine Henin, stop talking to Martina Hingis already!) were always quick to admit... once the fun goes out the window, it doesn't seem worth it.
A Federer win in England could revitalize the Swiss star. However, if Nadal's performance in last year's Wimbledon final is any indication, it won't be long before he crashes Roger's tea party, too.
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