Top Five Tennis Players Banned from 2009 Grand Slams (Humor)

For the past three years, we’ve seen the top five players in men’s tennis dominate the Grand Slams.

With Federer and Nadal winning the majority, Djokovic reaching two finals and winning one, and Murray reaching a final and looking hopeful for more.

So lets say that the ATP have banned the top five from Grand Slams for the year 2009 for being too dominant!

The tennis world is shaken to its foundations!

This crazy decision by the ATP has caused outrage!

Tennis fans around the world have gone into a state of depression!

It’s Feb. 2. The final of the Australian Open is underway. 2007 finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is playing the Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro.  TV.viewings are at an all time low as the stadium is almost empty.

The young French man powers into a first set lead (6-3). The second set serves up a thriller game at 2-2. Del Potro is serving at break point down. He manages a 145 mph ace to save the game.

Two backhand winners help Del Potro to 3-2. At 6-6, we have a tiebreak. A beautiful forehand winner from Tsonga ends a 34-stroke rally on the first point.

At 7-7 in the tiebreak, there’s a clever drop shot from Tsonga to go 8-7 up. Tsonga is serving for a two set lead.

Del Potro capitalises on a poor second serve. Then two quick winners from Del Potro and it’s one set all.

Tsonga’s inconsistency comes back to haunt him as he is thumped 6-1 in the third set!

We’re into the fourth set and Del Potro is out of the blocks quickly taking the first three games to lead 3-0.Tsonga claws it back to 3-3 after some fine tennis. The two players hold serve to bring us to another tiebreak. After a gruelling 18 points, it’s 9-9!

Del Potro double faults on serve to make it 10-9 to Tsonga. Tsonga serves and volleys……Del Potro just manages to get to it and push it down the line. Just as it looks as it is 10-10, Tsonga challenges. The ball is in fact out and Tsonga takes the set.

Breaking news. Sports stations across the globe tune in to watch match as people pour into the stadium!

The fifth set has begun with both men looking nervy. Each of them failing to take a stranglehold on the match. 5-5. Tsonga is two break points down but rallies back with an amazing forehand winner and backhand lob.

Four straight games of each player holding serve brings us to 8-7. Del Potro is 0-30 down on serve but somehow manages to serve a game of aces to stun Tsonga and bring it to 8-8.

Then a moment of inspiration from Tsonga. A lovely deft drop shot and lob. Break point. Del Potro swings in a weak second serve and Tsonga hits it clean. All Del Potro can do is hit it high in the air. Tsonga waits for the ball to drop, lets it bounce…. then SMASH! He has his break!

After four hours and 58 minutes, Tsonga has match point. He feels the weight of the world on his shoulders!

His arm feels heavy!

He manages to get his first serve in. It’s an ace!

The umpire confirms it, ‘’game, set, match, Tsonga’’.

He’s done it!

He’s won the Australian Open and revived the world of tennis in the process!

After an amazing Australian Open, it was on to the French.

Here, James Blake had made it to the final to play Fernando Gonzalez.

Yet another enthralling battle saw James Blake come out the victor 7-5, 5-7, 6-7, 7-5, 6-4, and get sweet revenge for his Beijing defeat.

Then we move to Wimbledon where crowds are now at a record high! 

Another Frenchman, Gilles Simon, had gone on a great run to the final to play the American veteran and two-time finalist Andy Roddick.

Roddick came out all guns blazing in the first set taking it 6-4. However Simon showed great strength of character to take the next two sets to lead 2-1. Roddick won the fourth set by a crushing 6-0!

Simon found it hard to recover and lost a thrilling final set 11-9! Roddick had finally broken his duck at Wimbledon as tears rolled from his eyes!

Into the last grand slam of the year at the US Open and the final was to be played between David Nalbandian and Gael Monfils.

Gael Monfils stormed to a two set lead in which he only lost three games. However, there was a rain delay out on the Arthur Ashe stadium and this allowed Nalbandian back into the match when they resumed play.

At two sets to one, and 6-6, we had yet another grand slam final tiebreak. A cheeky hot dog shot by Monfils at 6-6 cost him the set as Nalbandian went on to win the tiebreak 8-6.

Six hours and 10 minutes of play had gone by until finally Nalbandian reached Championship point at 8-7, 40-30. He served and volleyed to win the match!

So there you have it. The top five were banned from the world of tennis for 2009, but the lower ranked outsiders stepped up to the plate to produce some of the most amazing battles tennis has ever seen in one season!!!! (Now back to reality!)