a game with no losers..

Winning or losing is just a number, a point, a score or a rank. What really matters is the fight, the zeal and the effort. Nobody who saw the Australian open final recently would deny that. At the end how everyone wished that there were no winners and losers in games! After all, how can you pick one from the two who were giving the best of the best performances matching game to game, point to point and set to set. It came so close towards the end of the 4th and 5th sets that it was sheer pleasure to see a tired Djokovic fighting his only human body with an unlimited will power and the never-tiring Nadal returning back with all the might he can, never losing hope. At the end, one reached the summit and that, because the game ends at a score of 7-5.

There was a Verdasco vs Nadal and then a Nadal vs Federer sometime back, both showing the world that upsets and surprises are part of the game. But this one was no surprise. If you haven't watched the game, you would easily accept that Djokovic with a better rank was the obvious choice. But people who watched it, well, can tell you how this match is the best of the best. And can only praise Djokovic for his gargantuan effort in overcoming his physical limitations as a human and stretching that extra bit to win the game. And Nadal, for his unending fighting spirit going into the fourth set one set down and making it to the final game of the match ending on equal terms, well, almost.

If you are already a world champion and are in the final of a grand slam and on almost equal terms in score, what makes you put in that extra effort and win that game using up all the energy of your body and strength of your mind, is what separates champions from the rest.