A "match" made in heaven...

So the two tennis greats, from two slightly overlapping eras squared off in Seoul this week in terrible conditions. Sampras, the 14 time championship winner, all of 36 squared off against his 25 year old opponent, and top-dog of the day Roger Federer.
It is terrible heartache to take sides in such a match. Both guys are champs in their own right, and they have squared off just a few times in their actual professional careers almost 4 years ago, with Sampras on the verge or retiring, and Roger's stars were on the ascendance.
Although Federer did manage to beat Sampras in two sets straight, you have to hand it to Sampras - he has been out of touch for a while now. But what is so great about the match is probably not the match that either played itself. In fact, it probably was never the epic it was made out to be. But to see both players on court square off against each other was an amazing feeling - both players are clean - with very little emotion to show on court (although I'd say Federer is more prone to show off his frustration when things are not going his way, but that doesn't happen too often!), and have excellent all-round games unlike some other one dimensional characters (big serves, or clay court specialists). Rafa is amazing too because the clay court takes a horrendous amount of stamina to last on - but then he needs to start winning something other than the French Open each year to get to Roger's level.
Its a shame the two couldn't play each other more often during Sampras' professional career. That way we wouldn't have had to sigh and say "If only he were a little younger, he'd have given Roger a run for his money". Sampras was my tennis hero - and still is - but to me Roger is the epitome of everything that a coaching video manual translated on to the tennis court means... He has a shot for any and every situation - and he rips it like nobody else I've ever seen (Rafa is close...) - I don't even think God comes close to that perfection.. And he has warned his opponents, that he is going to get only better!! God have mercy on his opponents on the tour - its a lot easier than competing against him!!