Blake did not let me down tonight.  Many times before I have been let down by Jame Blake and his inability to close the deal, but tonight is OK with me.  He lost, but he hustled.  Much respect.

It was 4 hours and 16 minutes of grueling, lay it all on the table tennis that was fueled by one person’s lust for a second grand slam title and another’s lust for tennis immortality.

Andy Roddick had an opportunity in the second set tie breaker to get up 2 sets and he couldn’t pull it off.  Federer came back and won 5 points in a row to win the set.  That was Andy’s chance and he blew it.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy, but he had one chance against Roger and he couldn’t come up with it.

Roger also won the third set in a tiebreak and Roddick could feel his chances slipping away.  The fourth set was Andy’s as he broke Roger’s serve early on and blasted his record breaking serve past Roger Federer.

Now comes the 30 game fifth set.  Back and forth both men held their serves and it was just a matter of who would fold first.  Andy Roddick was playing the match of his life, flawless, fit and tough.  He believed he could win.  He probably deserved to win, but Roger found a way to win breaking Andy’s serve in the 30th game of the set and taking the 2009 Wimbledon Men’s Championship.

A great champion will find a way to win.  Roger is and did.  He waited for Andy to make a mistake and just stayed the course.  Sure enough Andy Roddick slipped and Roger didn’t.  He was there to capitalize on it and win the 15th major of his career.  The most in the history of the game.  He is back at #1 in the standings and is the undisputed greatest tennis player to ever play the game.

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