9 July 2001
So Goran's won. Even though he beat Henman to get there, the crowd hanging around outside John Lewis watching the Sony widescreens cheered him on and roared when he won. Cars stopped up on the pavement, they cheered for Pat Rafter, they cheered for Goran. I think it was a very confused crowd.
So which one was the best man? Pat, who was the underdog to Agassi in the semi and swung this match around each time Goran took a lead? Or Goran, fourth time into the final, he's slogged his way through the tournament so many times he'd probably lost faith in himself. As we were continually reminded he was a wild card this time around because his ranking had fallen below 100. Goran was the ultimate underdog.
There was a lot of anti-podean suppressed anger in the office this morning because of the rugby and the cricket (I don't follow cricket at all, I understand England lost again?) and I seemed to be the only one cheering Rafter on.
I liked what I saw of Goran, not being a Henman fan at all, but the relish he took at showing off an imaginary "split-personality" became all too real in the fourth set when Rafter broke him to even the score. Spitting at Lineswomen? Throwing rackets around and kicking the net? Perhaps Rafter was the better man as he's shown none of these sore-loser tantrums, instead accepting that this may well be his final Wimbledon and taking defeat with a smile and a quip for Sue Barker.
We've run out of hot weather it seems, rain is back to being unpredictably heavy/light, and now Wimbledon is over for another year. Anyway, can the country get back to normal now?
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