Nadal enlarges the legend

 





And we will remember them all over the years, crushed and battered in the arena of La Cartuja ocher He, Rafael Nadal Parera, as the champion of the people, these 24,852 people, including the popular clamor of 'Rafa, Rafa' . And they, all his companions. The human wall Xábia, David Ferrer. Or the bullfighter doubles partner, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, who tore an incredible Davis Mar del Plata and sometimes lost. There are always going to win at all, what the hell"Fin de fiesta" was the first thing David Ferrer Ern said Rafael Nadal Parera when put side by side in the Press Room. The best team in the tennis world in the XXI century, the five-of Spain, and sets sail to the legend. In 2012, a miracle or the Olympics not avoid it, Nadal, Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez Spanish will be placed uniform Davis. Maybe back. Or not. But therein lies the magic aura of a Dynasty unrepeatable since 2000, their hands (and Ferrero, Moya, Costa, Corretja) have raised five bowl. And only they can choose to disappear into the shadows, like General MacArthur at West Point. "The world will not forget what you did here," declared the manager Eddie Futch to Joe Frazier in Manila when he had to order, moved, neglect to Ali."The world will not forget what you did here," Nadal had said Futch, had seen the boy frowning Manacor fighting for his life and the fifth Davis of Spain under the titanic arsenal plane Del Potro, who dealt Nadal 7-0 for a partial buried under the rubble of a 6-1, received the worst score in a set of Rafa Davis. Such intensity was draining energy from Del Potro, Ferrer punished late on Friday.

And that game, tennis, romance can be silent music McEnroe on Federer or degenerates into bayonet assault if you have to beat Nadal. The reverse of Delpo sounds like an explosion. Nadal sweat smelled napalm. Nadal match. He hopes his time with the eyes. "I stuck with my heart by the winners but I always came back," Del Potro said later, his eyes watering. Delpo had needed 61 minutes to close the first set, too for those who already brought the sides open by blows from Ferrer.With the knife between his teeth, Nadal left the red sand pit and grabbed Del Potro, body to body, from 6-1 and 1-0 to Argentina, Rafa used a 10-1 for signed partial sets second and third (6-4, 6-1) and go 2-0 up in the room. Del Potro knew he had to fight for his life, he emptied the reserves of shrapnel and knock down the furious warrior Manacor: 5-3, remove and 30-15.Sudden death.In the heavy anguish was not La Cartuja island was jungle of emotions. Psychologically tortured, Del Potro and Nadal hesitate to bite again: 6-5. There, Rafa (which served as second serves at 115 km / h) gave his eighth break of the match. Then came the sudden death, which capitulated from Del Potro backhand evil the first point, the shadows and ashes, and when Nadal and smelled blood. Rafa misery settled with Del Potro 7-0 in sudden death and threw himself on the sand at La Cartuja. Blood and Sand. As in Mar del Plata, as here against Ferrer, Del Potro returned to the locker room crying in the final of Davis. And as Eddie Futch told Frazier, "The world will never forget everything you've done here."