At the beginning of this year’s Wimbledon, there was some talk that perhaps Rafael Nadal should be allowed to open up play on the first Tuesday on Centre Court, a spot normally reserved for the defending Ladies’ Champion in lieu of Nadal not being able to defend his title run from 2008. And although that didn’t happen (and you know Serena Williams would have said something if it had and deservedly so) perhaps everything has worked it out as it should with Nadal returning to the finals again. And although he doesn’t need to win the title to prove he is the definitive No. 1 player in the world, another championship would perhaps signal the beginning of a new era. In his way is the return of a Czech player to the finals for the first time since Ivan Lendl back in 1987. But this time the Czech involved isn’t an “up and coming” player as touted by the media but, dare I say it, a veteran who’s finally become the moment and not the other way around.
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