Sunday, January 29, 2012  2012 Aussie Open: Rafa in the Finals
(Not the winner, but always a champ!)  So I'm not distraught and
I'll tell you why. Nadal could've lost this match in the fourth.
Easily. He was down to sets to one. He was struggling. He was
serving down 3-4 at 0-40.  One more point to Djokovic and it
would be 5-3 for Novak to serve it out and that would've meant
lights out and a very disappointing loss for Rafa. But then
suddenly Rafa fought back. He won the next 5 points to hold his
serve. He then fought to 6-6 and a tie break. Then he was down
5-3 in the tie break! Still he fought back again and won the 4th
set! The 5th set was really incredible. Very impossible to
predict who would take it. It became the longest match in the
Aussie Open record books at 5 hours and 53 minutes. In the end,
that Djokovic magic came back and got past Rafa at 7-5 in the
fifth. It's sad, of course. I wanted Our Hero to win, my
friends, but I'm not devastated because here he really competed
like a champion.  (I thi