well, well, well. if you're a tennis fun, you have to feel very lucky that you're living in an era when you can witness the greatest grand slam final ever.

How many grand slam finals have you witnessed? Or even know about?

The 1980 final between Borg and McEnroe is at least as great, if not greater, than this year's final.

"In 1980, McEnroe reached the men's singles final at Wimbledon for the first time, where he faced Björn Borg, who was gunning for his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title. At the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court following heated exchanges with officials during his semifinal victory over Jimmy Connors. But the match itself was arguably the greatest Wimbledon final ever. In a fourth-set tiebreaker that lasted 20 minutes, often simply called "that tie-breaker," McEnroe saved five match points and eventually won 18-16. McEnroe, however, could not break Borg's serve in the fifth set, which the Swede won 8–6."

i've also witnessed the very one you mentioned here.

you can also ask both Borg and McEnroe which was the greatest final ever and see.

i prefer the final in 2001, wild card holder Ivanisevic beat Australian Pat Rafter in an epic five-set, three-hour-one-minute final to win the first and only one wimbledon single, after lost three times in the previous finals.

It sounds like you have already answered for them.

what a match, Roger was defeated as a hero.

最强大的反手vs最强大的正手

如果没有那么大的风，可能第二盘不会是这样的结果，最后可能打不到第5盘，笑到最后的可能是roger。
如果比赛没有因为下雨而暂停，可能roger坚持不到第5盘。
如果昨天雨没有停，而是今天继续比赛，最后的结果可能是。。。。

第一个阴雨暂停肯定是帮了 Federer。第二个看起来不太好说，从心理上可能对 Nadal 略微有利，从体力上对 Federer 有利。

我个人感觉最后 Federer 其实是输在体力上，他在最后几局中基本上是靠发球在撑着，绝大多数的回合球都被 Nadal 赢了。如果 Federer 能够在撑上两局，比赛就很有可能因为天黑终止了，那样的话结果就不好说了。

昨天比赛之所以精彩程度很大在于双方不可思议的心理承受能力。Federer 和 Nadal 赛前都面临着创造历史纪录的巨大压力，Federer 能从 0-2 落后，挽救两个赛点将比赛拖入决胜盘，Nadal 能比赛后半段在错过多次赛点和破发点的情况下始终保持及其过硬的心理素质，这都是其他运动员所远远不及的。

没错，F是输在体力上，所以我说如果能在第二天继续比赛，那么可能F的胜算大些。
两个人的心理素质都超强，都是战斗到最后，体力耗尽（尤其F)，但谁的精神都没有垮下来。

BBC: Roger v Rafa - the best final ever?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7493099.stm

John McEnroe: "the greatest match I have ever seen." ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7493485.stm )

Bjorn Borg: "I have just witnessed the greatest match I have ever seen. The drama, the quality and the way it ended when it seemed as though no more tennis could possibly be played was remarkable, to put it mildly." ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7493485.stm )

Boris Becker: "It was the best final I've seen, and I'm including the Bjorn Borg versus John McEnroe classic back in 1980 and some of Pete Sampras' finals in that." ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7492550.stm )