Genius at Work !!!

Stunning Rafa! Simply stunning!! Hands up who loved every single minute of THAT!!

Oh Rafa ... we hear you when you talk of weariness, we cannot for one minute begin to understand what your body and mind goes through. But I'll tell you one thing. When you are on, when it all clicks for you ... dear God in heaven above there is NOTHING so compelling and beautiful to watch on a tennis court.

Today Rafa opened the Davis Cup final with the first singles match against his good friend, Juan Monaco. From the off, Rafa had break points which Pico saved but he never got a look in for the rest of the set. Although I think Rafa's overall clay court season in 2011 was a bit sub-par, there is something about Rafa when he pulls on that shirt for Spain, feels the dirt under his feet and leads his team out with his game face on and yellow bandana tied around his head.

His play today was utterly awesome, fabulous. The 45 minute first set at 6-1 was followed by exactly the same. It wasn't as if Pico was playing badly, but he just faced an opponent today who was stunning beyond belief.

But moving to the third set, at 2-2 with Pico serving, he had to hang on in there to stay in the game which he did, and managed to take it to deuce. Rafa then played a stunning shot to get the ad, but what was to come next had me whooping and screaming on my sofa and the stadium in Seville rose to its feet. It was all court stuff with net exchanges and a stunning Rafa backhand volley clinched it. VAMOS!! Pico took a tumble as he attempted his shot and didn't win another game. Rafa took the match at 6-2 in the third.

Whilst once again I had been :censored: at the bias of the Sky commentators, by the end of it, even they bowed to called Rafa at Genius and Work and get this Feds ... the word IMPERIOUS was used to describe Rafa's play.

I hope our lovely boy can take bottle up those feelings, and store it in his memory what it was like to move his opponent from side to side, to create impossible angles, to make fantastic winners, to choose the right time to make clever approaches to the net ... and what it felt like to VAMOS! and FIST PUMP for his life!!

I loved every minute of it ... lets applaud this genius man of clay.