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I love tennis season. I know that it sort of starts in January with the Australian Open but for me it doesn’t start until the summertime. It has been great so far and there are several reasons why. First, the women’s singles defending French Open champ, Justine Henin, surprised everyone when she announced that she was retiring. I thought that she was going to try to make in four straight wins and beat her own record. That didn’t happen, though.

Rafael Nadal won the French Open for a fourth straight time and for a third time he beat world ranked number one Roger Federer. Federer only lacks this tennis tournament to have his career Grand Slam. But Nadal will not let him have the FO trophy. Federer is on his way to winning the Wimbledon tournament again. He is the king of grass which is ironic because he grew up playing on clay courts in Switzerland.

I just love tennis season for reasons like these and because the sport is so beautiful. You sometimes see players acting foolish but not as much as you see this kind of behavior in other sports. No, in tennis you often see people with their dreams crushed but still being good sports.