•Wawrinka Said-: There Was “A big chance I will get drunk tonight”, ....The Swiss on his first Grand Slam title at the 36th attempt. ..........Take note of this-: In The Open era-: only Goran Ivanisevic, the Wimbledon champion in 2001, has played more tournaments (48) before breaking his Grand Slam duck. •There were other significant milestones too. Wawrinka is the first player to beat both Nadal and Djokovic in the same Grand Slam tournament and the first to beat the top two seeds to win a Grand Slam title since Sergi Bruguera got the better of Pete Sampras and Jim Courier to claim the 1993 French Open. •Wawrinka will climb today to a career-high position at No 3 in the world rankings and will overtake Federer for the first time to become the Swiss No 1. Federer was one of the first to phone Wawrinka to congratulate him. “Roger is a good friend,”. Wawrinka said. “He always wants the best for me.” In the long term it hardly matters, but we will never know what the outcome would have been had Nadal not suffered a back injury in the warm-up before his 19th – and surely most bizarre – Grand Slam final. The Spaniard could barely run or serve by the time he had lost the first two sets, but his condition improved a little after treatment. A pained Rafael Nadal reacted openly.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:49:03 +0000
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