Nadal End 2010 Tennis Betting Action As #1 in World. In what should come as no surprise at all for tennis fans who are even remotely familiar with how things unfolded this year in men’s professional tennis, Raphael ended the season as the top ranked male tennis player in the world. It’s not difficult to understand why. He won three of the four Grand Slam events (French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open) and swept the final three consecutive Slams, something that’s has been done just once before in men’s tennis.
All in all, he came as close to dominating the tennis odds action as anyone has in the modern Open Era. And even though some people are unprepared to put the Spanish player on the same plain as the great Roger Federer, his adversary and top opponent, his play this year was just as good as even the best years of Federer career during his prime.
Federer never won more than three Slams in one year and never won three consecutive Slams in single calendar year. Nadal has, and he’s done it all by the age of 24 and will just be hitting his peak when the 2011 tennis betting action gets underway.
What makes winning three consecutive Grand Slams in the same tennis odds calendar year such a big deal is that in order to do this you’ve got to win on three different surfaces: clay, grass and hard court. Many of the all time greats in the sport have been masters of one but rarely of two of these surfaces and never of all three.
In fact, there has hasn’t been a player like Nadal in the modern Open Era that has mastered clay and grass the way that Nadal has. Typically clay players (“dirt rats” as the great Andre Agassi refers to them) are grinders; great athletes who simply wear down their opponents on the slower, unpredictable surface and generally lack finesse or typical tennis skill.
Nadal begin his career as a dirt rat but is now much more. Every year he’s added a new weapon to his tennis repertoire –this year it was a pinpoint, side winding serve. And now he can say that he has eclipsed Federer, of this there is no doubt, as the greatest player in tennis betting and with 8 career Grand Slam titles he may even have at taking Federer’s all time record of 15.