At the moment, tennis greatly resembles Formula 1. Nadal is the Red Bull equivalent: wins every Grand Slam and is unarguably better than the rest. Djokovic is like McLaren: sometimes he is capable of exceptional things, but normally he only makes semi finals at Grand Slams. Finally, we have Federer who is the equivalent of Ferrari: used to be the best, but now only only produces occasional Grand Slam wins, even though the tennis he produces is the most sublime to watch, slightly like Ferrari with Alonso.
As far as I'm concerned, this match really is a foregone conclusion: I see absolutely no way that Djokovic will win tomorrow when faced with a Nadal who makes on average no more than 10 unforced errors per match and generally gets every single thing back. He's already won Wimbledon twice, and knows what it's like to be in the final, Djokovic on the other hand has never won and has never been in the final until now.
Djokovic's 1% chance of winning lies in his ability to rediscover his early season form and his winning streak. He was more unstoppable than Nadal then and beat at least twice I believe. If he does that, then we could have a different match to the one I originally described. But again, I fully expect Nadal to record a dominant victory in 3 or 4 sets, slightly like yesterday against Murray.
Being honest, I would have much preferred a Federer vs Nadal final. It's the most interesting game you can get nowadays in the tennis world and I think Federer would have had a chance. But Tsonga had his moment of brilliance and it meant that could not happen. A shame, you really feel that Federer, the Lewis Hamilton of tennis, could have beaten Nadal, the Sebastian Vettel equivalent.
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