Federer Wins The ATP Title... But Nadal Still #1

Flawless Roger Federer floors Rafael Nadal to win ATP title... But Nadal continues to lead ATP rankings, continues to be world number one on the Tennis Court...

Roger Federer overcame Rafael Nadal 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 to win the fifth year-end title of his career with victory in the final of the ATP World Tour Finals. He claimed his fifth titles this season, three from his last four events. With a record of 16 Grand Slam titles, this is his 66th career trophy. Although he closed the gap on Rafael Nadal in the men's ATP tennis rankings with his three set victory, he is still quiet a long way away from the number one position - Currently Nadal is with 12,450 points and Federer is quiet far behind with 9,145 points (the Spaniard still has an advantage of more than 3,000 points).

This victory is Federer's eighth win against 14 defeats against Nadal, but most of those defeats have come on the Clay Court, where Nadal is the King, where as here, in the indoor surface, the Swiss world number two now is 3-0 (his previous wins coming in Shanghai at the year-end event in 2006 and 2007. ) up against Nadal.

Nadal had a dream year (2010), Rafael Nadal is the latest, and by far the youngest entrant in a very small club of tennis superstars to have conquered all four slams. The all-star pair have won 21 of the last 23 Grand Slams (12 for Federer, nine for Nadal).

Federer has ended the season in winning a style against Nadal, but Nadal is someone who now may be hard to overtake, the way he is going about with his finest tennis - Indeed, Federer is a Master, but Nadal too has proven to be just that - another Master. And both these players are simply too good, they are truly the finest tennis players ever to play this game, who, at the top of their forms can floor their opponent any time.

ATP top 10:

1. Rafael Nadal (Spain) - 12,450pts.

2. Roger Federer (Switzerland) - 9,145pts.

3. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) - 6,035pts.

4 Andy Murray (Britain) - 5,760pts.

5. Robin Soderling (Sweden) - 5,580pts.

6. Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) - 3,955pts.

7. David Ferrer (Spain) - 3,735pts.

8. Andy Roddick (US) - 3,665pts.

9. Fernando Verdasco (Spain) - 3,240pts.

10. Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) - 2,920pts.

Heading To Nowhere?

Long is the road, it is not clear, it is not smooth, it is a bumpy ride to where ever we go. We all here are travelers, travelling here in this place called Earth, meeting up with people, making and breaking up things that we do not even really know of. In this so called life, we have seen and been through a lot of things, some things amazed us, and some things made us laugh, cry, horrified, sing, dance, play, possessive, egoistic, selfish, and a lot, lot more. Some things made us who we really are, where as some things made us what we are not. In simple terms, we lived our very lives here as it went on by us in every day to day affair.

We are living in this world that we did not make, it has been given to us as a gift, a gift, and we also need to protect and keep it intact forever, and not break it into bits and peaces. But what are we up to here? What at we doing to this Earth? Tearing it apart, breaking it one by one into bits and peaces only to serve our own never ending (undying) needs to be selfish and satisfied. Being self centered and egoistic, we have created a huge gap between ourselves and this gap seems to be growing day by day.

We are all living here today, but what does tomorrow really hold in for us? Where will we be heading for tomorrow - Nowhere? The Earth in itself is loosing out, it is dying now, and we Humans are the only ones responsible for it. We are killing the Earth everyday, piercing it, burning it, demolishing it with every thing we do. Have we triggered the ecological activities of the Earth to move along faster? We can feel it, it is warming up, the weather cycle is not proper; the ice is melting at an alarming rate.

Of all that I am completely aware of is that it won't take time for all this to trigger the End of the World, the Yellow Stone Park Volcano could erupt any time, and if it does, it could swallow up the entire globe, then there is lodes of methane trapped inside ice, if it is exposed through the melting of the ice, it might again trigger up another big bang here on Earth. So is it getting over, that is my question? We are certainly heading to nowhere!

Vettel Grabs The Glory - F1 2010

So close yet so very, very far, these are perfect phrases for both Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber, both gave themselves chances for the title glory in 2010 but both failed and in this small fight for the title, Sebastian Vettel stole the show (and the title).

Vettel had missed out last year to Jenson Button (he didn't impress much this year), but this year, he got his chance for glory. Becoming Germany's second world champion, after Michael Schumacher (who in his comeback finished 9th), Vettel has made his impression as a driver to look out for in the future.

Sadly Schumacher's return to F1 was a bit disappointing, finishing 9th, with just 72 points certainly does not impress much. He also failed to finish the last race due to a crash with Liuzzi. All in all Sebastian Vettel deserved to win, it was not easy pushing this car all the time, but he did not give up hope and fought it till the last race - great goin.

Top 10 Drivers

1. Sebastian Vettel - 256

2. Fernando Alonso - 252

3. Mark Webber - 242

4. Lewis Hamilton - 240

5. Jenson Button - 214

6. Felipe Massa - 144

7. Nico Rosberg - 142

8. Robert Kubica - 136

9. Michael Schumacher - 72

10. Rubens Barrichello – 47

Constructors'

1. Red Bull / Renault - 498

2. McLaren / Mercedes - 454

3. Ferrari - 396

4. Mercedes - 214

5. Renault - 163

6. Williams / Cosworth - 69

7. Force India / Mercedes - 68

8. BMW Sauber / Ferrari - 44

9. Toro Rosso / Ferrari - 13

10. Lotus / Cosworth - N.A

11. HRT F1 / Cosworth - N.A

12. Virgin / Cosworth - N.A

Without A Feeling - Being Numb

When you had a fall

A fall down on the ground

You're left life-less, meaningless

You're left out without a feeling

You're numb!

We are all gifted with something or the other, sometimes with all of the good and sometimes with all of the bad. We are gifted with victories and defeats, happiness and sorrows, strength and weaknesses. Yes, we are all gifted with the good and the bad as well, but do we really know how to live with and without each of that?

When all of the good is happening in and around you, you feel like being one of the luckiest one who has ever lived on this planet, whereas if all of the bad things are happening in and around you, then you think otherwise. And you are the one who seem to complain at every step in those horrible times.

It is really hard to live in lie, a lie that everything is going to be alright, to wake up every morning and assume that it is going to be a great day, nothing can possibly go wrong. This life is not perfect, and one should also not try to assume or even try to make it perfect, because when reality strikes, it strikes hard, and it strikes so hard that you will not be able to rise up from that fall.

When bad times haunt you, they haunt you without any limits, you curse yourself, you wish to turn back time, sometimes you'd even wish you were dead. It is like living in a horrifying nightmare that will never seek to end. Sometimes you can just close your eyes, let yourself free, let yourself loose and imagine that there is noting wrong, all is okay, it is going to be alright, but the moment you open up your eyes again, you see it right in front of you, showing it's ugly face back at you.