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| Stan Wawarinka |
Wawrinka won his first
French Open title with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Novak Djokovic
on Sunday. The stunning win denied Djokovic a title at the only Grand
Slam tournament he has yet to win. Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked
player, has won eight Grand Slam titles: five at the Australian Open,
two at Wimbledon and one at the U.S. Open.
The 30-year-old Wawrinka now has two major titles—and two remarkable
tennis upsets. In Australia last year, he beat top-seeded Rafael Nadal
in the final. Wawrinka was seeded eighth, just like he was at this
year’s French Open.
Wawrinka beat Djokovic with shots hit so
hard, and so accurately, that they looked like something out of a
Hollywood special-effects lab. There were forehands down the line,
precision overheads and backhands galore. Wawrinka hit one backhand
winner around the net post.
With every blow, Djokovic looked stunned. He turned to his box,
where his coaches, Boris Becker and Marian Vajda, looked on. He shook
his head. He yelled. At the end of the second set, he smashed his racket
until it broke.
Djokovic looked like he might make a comeback when he broke serve and
took a 3-0 lead in the fourth set. But Wawrinka kept swinging freely
and didn’t fade. He leveled the set at 3-3 and escaped from a 0-40
deficit to hold serve for 4-4.
Djokovic then saved a break point
on his serve by serving and volleying, but Wawrinka earned another
chance and didn’t miss. He whipped a backhand winner down the line and
proceeded to serve out the match.
How did Wawrinka end it? With another clean backhand winner, of course. It was his 60th winner of the match.
Source: The Wall Street Journal( Tom Perrotta)
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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