It Never Rains...

So I have to kick off with an apology.
I’d planned to write this blog in honour of Rafael Nadal’s triumph at the US Open.
Instead, we’ll just have to see how my powers of prediction are faring, since the final is being played tonight due to heavy rain in New York.
No matter, my point still stands.
In case you didn’t know, Nadal came on the scene in around 2002, winning his first grand slam in 2005 at the French Open.
The French Open is a clay court tournament.
Winning on clay is a specialist skill and Rafael was seen as very much a specialist.
He was good on clay – that was his destiny.
But he wasn’t happy with that.
He worked hard to develop his game, and has triumphed on Wimbledon’s tricky grass surface in 2008 and 2010.
Now he stands on the cusp of his first American hard court “slam” in New York.
What’s fantastic is that Rafael didn’t listen to the “experts”.
They’re the ones who wrote him off as nothing but a clay court specialist.
But he knew better about what his future was.
And then he put in the work to make it come true.
As I read on the wall in a “bathroom” in the States
“The future is in your hands.”
Now please wash them.