It is the country with more titles in a season (16) of history
* Ten Spanish finish the year among the 60 best players on the planet
* The team lifted its third Davis Cup title by playing three crosses home
The Spanish team, with the ‘Salad Bowl’. (Photo: AFP)
The victory of Spain in Mar del Plata not only ends a spectacular year of Spanish tennis, but also confirms the change in the global arena. Spain is already the leading power in the world. The individual successes of Rafael Nadal and the Davis Cup team, with three ‘Salad’ in eight years, forcing the United States and Australia to surrender to the evidence.
In the 2008 season things have happened that seemed impossible not many years ago. A Spanish has been able to win Roland Garros, Wimbledon, the Olympic gold and oust the leader of the ATP, for many, the best player of all time. There are details that still marvel over: Nadal chained 32 consecutive victories on three different surfaces, more than two months in which fell two Grand Slam, two Masters Series tournament and a flagship, like Queens.
But there’s more, Spain closed the year with 10 players among the 60 best in the world and until 2008, no country had achieved 16 titles in a single season (eight of Nadal, two of Ferrer, two of Almagro, one of Verdasco, one of Robredo, one of Montanes and one of Granollers). Another fact that should not be overlooked is that the Spanish Davis Cup team has been able to lift their third ‘Salad Bowl’ three playoffs playing at home (Peru, Germany and Argentina).
The times in which Spain was shining only on clay are history, and not just because of Rafa Nadal. David Ferrer also won this year, s-Hertogenbosch, his first title on grass, while Fernando Verdasco and Feliciano Lopez proved on the track ‘anti-Spanish “that Argentina was prepared to be comfortable on fast surfaces.
Verdasco and Feliciano found your site
Without the ATP’s number one in the last major event of the season’s national tennis, Emilio Sanchez Vicario pulled the ‘theirs’ and they will not failed. Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco make up the couple of years looking for double that led the Spanish team thanks to the captain. The need to cover the absence of Nadal and the worrying state of Ferrer opened the door to two players today, finally, are actors.
Feliciano Lopez, a player who has already installed several seasons among the 30 best in the world, was located in an affluent perhaps. Double Quarter at Wimbledon, where he was very close to reaching the semifinals last summer, has an indisputable talent, not sufficiently profitable to date. Jose Perlas, his new coach, it will require deliver everything carries within itself. The change is an undeniable step forward
Fernando Verdasco is a comparable case. Madrid has an impressive potential that has been on the verge of being for the first time in his career among the 10 best in the world. If Lopez, 27, has won only one title in his career, Vienna, in 2004, Verdasco, 25, has to conform with two, Valencia in 2004 and Umag, last summer. Continues to travel with her physical trainer, Vincent Calvo, without moving with a trainer fixed.
Yes there are, however, differences between Lopez and Verdasco at the time of ‘face’ to the Argentine public. While ‘Feli’, advised by Pearl, tarareaba in the dock of the songs in Britain although they were offensive team against someone like therapy to relax and to play down what they said, Fernando is already decentralized before Acasuso point was to pay the defeat.
Davis Cup could be a catapult in their respective careers, as happened in 2004 with Rafa Nadal. Subjected to extreme situations, the maximum liability, with the commitment not only playing for themselves, but to bear on their shoulders the hopes of all the Spanish fans, both emerging from Buenos Aires with an unusual experience, successfully resolved outstanding to the surprise of a majority more or less silent. Faced with what may seem, both are also highly permeable people with the fans and demonstrate an exquisite gentleness. Lopez was able to see on foot runway, recently won the Cup, shouting “Argentina, Argentina, Argentina”, next to the melancholic fans crazy
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Source : http://www.bumeral.net/blog/2008/11/24/spain-won-davis-cup-in-tennis-spain-monopolizes-the-tennis-world/