Queens For The Day 6.15/6.16

Well, it looks more and more like Rafael Nadal is in a Bjorn Borg frame of mind - Borg having been the last player to record what may be the penultimate single-year achievement (after the Grand Slam): the French Open-Wimbledon double.

Many thing stand in Jet Boy's way, starting with that viper-quick, cool-headed, four-time defending champion, Roger Federer. Bt underestimating Nadal on grass is a serious miscalculation, and rationalizing his appearance in last year's final, opposite The Mighty Fed, as a fluke, or the product of an easy draw, is wish rather than reality-based thinking. Nadal is one of the Great Ones. Anything is possible, if not probable.

Today, Jet Boy hammered a solid grass court player, Max Mirnyi. The big news of the day is that Novak Djokovic lost as well, to zippy Frenchman Arnaud Clement. The Djoker, who's just 20 and still growing, will get some welcome rest now for Wimbledon. In some ways, given Djoker's profile, this enforced rest may help his chances in the long run.

Feel free to use this post to discuss today and tomorrow's results from Queens - or Halle, or anywhere else, for that matter.