WTF ... he lost.

Well ... its with extreme disappointment that I have to bring an end to this exciting and marvellous week with a report of a Rafa defeat. But that's tennis ... huh? After the match that Rafa played against Murray, insider information we have from a friend of Denzy's cousin who works at the O2, was that the pair of them could barely crawl their way out of there when it was all finished. So frankly, they'd done a good job of beating themselves up for whoever was to face Feds.

Feds has been secretly practising all week at Queens and never put in an appearance at the practice courts - great for the fans, eh? Not! But its obvious he's been working on his backhand to try and counteract that shot that Rafa batters to death.

So the match starts and they are fairly evenly matched, with Rafa going 30-0 up on the Feds serve in game 7, only for it to come to nothing. But in the following Rafa service game, Feds pounces and then serves it out for the first set. To Rafa's credit, he kept himself in there and took a break on Feds serve at the same point in the second and he then served it out.

So the match goes into a decider, but on Rafa's serve at 1-2 down, and from having 2 game points, Rafa will be disappointed that he let that one go, and from Feds being a break up, its as if all the adrenalin that Rafa had been running on just seeped away, weary in the knowledge that his body probably didn't have it in him to fight his way back. He was spent at that point and lost the match, 3-6, 6-3, 1-6.

Whilst its disappointing that he lost against Feds, cos I loathe and detest him more than any other player - even the Sod, perhaps - Rafa should take so many positives from this tournament. Indoor tennis on hardcourts is the worst of all the surfaces for him. He hadn't played any tennis indoors this season and was unable to participate in his warm up event in Paris because of injury. He therefore hit this tournament cold, rusty and out of practice, but won all of his round robin matches. He beat Murray in that teutonic battle on Saturday, and levelled the match on Sunday by taking a set off Feds who hadn't lost one all week.

So all in all, that was a damn good showing from Rafa, so well done honey.

So that's it folks ... tennis done for another year ... its all over. Rafa has achieved more than anyone could ever dream of, himself included. 3 Slams, the elusive US Open, the Wimbledon-French Open double (again), his record breaking 18th Masters, the Clay Slam, the Sportsman of the Year as voted by his fellow players, re-gaining the Number 1. And the biggest achievement of all ... he met me. Hehe.

VAMOS RAFA!!!