I’ve been watching one incredible tennis match for the last few hours.  The Wimbledon final features Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, and it’s shaping into an epic.  Nadal one the first two sets after Federer uncharacteristically allowed his serve to be broken twice consecutively in the second set, but he rebounded to win the third and fourth sets in tiebreakers, and he faced match point in the fourth set tiebreaker only to hit an unbelievable backhand passing shot (maybe his first of the match) to save it and then hit a string of winners to win the set. 

Best of all for any tennis fan is that seemingly every game and point of every set has been high quality and  hotly contested.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen a match like this in my life. Incredible.

Unfortunately they just called the second rain delay of the match (the first was in the third set) with the score 2-2 and Federer serving at deuce in the fifth.  With only an hour of daylight left in London I suspect they’ll be playing the end of the match tomorrow.  Next year Wimbledon will have a high-tech, retractable roof they can close over Center Court, so they won’t have this problem again.  Too bad we don’t have it this year.

Update: They’re back on the court and Federer just held serve for 7-6.  No tiebreaker in the fifth set so they might still run out of light.

Update 2: Nadal finally broke Federer and held serve despite Federer hitting one more incredible backhand to save one championship point and push it back to deuce.  Longest Wimbledon championship match in history and definitely the greatest I’ve ever seen, even better than Borg’s last championship.