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[QUOTE="wire chief, post: 2746672, member: 1411"]
Well, we exit from Roland Garros for a year.  The King of Clay persists, securing his 11th crown.  Surely more than even Queen Elizabeth has.  When you consider that not only has he 11 championships here, but also 11 each from 2 important lead-in events to the French, and 19 Majors total, including a career Grand slam, you have to say, as Geno said about Diana, that there will never be another Rafa.
(How's that for a run on sentence.)
His Austrian opponent relies on a powerful forehand and a monster first serve.  To make a go of it, he needed a high 1st serve percentage.  Not good enough today.
There was an uh oh moment early in the 3rd set, when Rafa went to the bench to get fingers on his service hand retaped.  There was an apparent numbness.  No matter, for he finished things off with 2 service breaks there and won in 3.
Since his 1st crown at age 19, Rafa has one lone hiccup--a puzzling defeat by Robin Soderling (who promptly celebrated by having a few months of conjugal bliss with  the Big Bang Theory's Penny, then never heard from again).

Roger awaits, and really, who will prevent that meeting?
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