Yesterday was the finals for the mens singles at the U.S. Open. Roger Federer was in the finals for the fourth straight slam in 2009 - Australian, French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open. Very impressive. Federer has won 15 grand slam finals, including five consecutive U.S. Open titles. Which meant that for more than 2,000 days, he had been undefeated at the U.S. Open. Again, very impressive.
Yesterday, Roger Federer lost. Yesterday, a kid named Juan Martin Del Potro - a 20-year-old from Argentina - beat the best the game of tennis has ever seen. Ever.
Can you imagine being Del Potro today? The center of a media storm. Flying on serious quantities of adrenaline. Trying to keep a level head in the face of many microphones, the same questions over and over, in a language you don't really speak, to explain how you pulled off the impossible. At 20.
It must have been quite a day.
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