First win after 17 matches defeats.

Watching a tennis match this morning. It's Tomas Berdych vs Rafael Nadal at Australian Open in the quarter finals. Berdych won the game with 3-0. 

Before today, both of them competed 17 matches since Berdych turned to professional player. He is 29 years old now and has passed so-called golden ages of a tennis player. Actually he may not just aim to defeat specific competitors like Nadal. But I'm glad to see this results because he did really great today with much ease and confidence than his rival.

This reminds of me the similar battles of Yuzu and Tatsuki in Worlds 2014. And it is a shame we don't have any chance to see them compete again.

(1) Tomas Berdych v Rafael Nadal highlights (QF)

(2 )Rafa tells it straight after early exit

最受觸動的一段話：

“Nothing new in my side,” he said. “Is not the first time that I have bad feelings when I am coming back. When you are coming back from an injuries you lose more easier the feeling than what you do when you are on rhythm, when you are with no injuries, when you are confident in yourself that you played a lot of matches.

我沒有甚麼好說的。受傷後重返球賽卻感覺不對勁，這不是第一次了。

當你傷後復出，很容易失去那種好的感覺－－那會發生在當你球感絕佳、當你無病無痛、當你有身經百戰的自信時。