While the football championship inexorably veers towards its inevitable end (only the official status is missing for the twenty-ninth Juventus flag), offering only a few minor points of interest, such as the Champions League race between Milan and Fiorentina and the fight in Ciapa not to stay in Serie A, sports Sunday offered an unforgettable day for all fans.
Tennis – In Montecarlo, in a Master 1000 which saw our Fabio Fognini hoist himself up to the semifinals and which opens the clay court season, the final saw opposing the number one in the world ranking Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal, winner of the last eight editions of the tournament.
The Serbian won in two sets, after an hour and 53 minutes of play. The first set slipped away rather easily, with Nole controlling the game, even touching a sensational coat, and closing on 6 to 2. In the second fraction, however, Nadal showed all his class and his obstinacy, battling on equal terms with Djokovic and only coming out defeated at the tie break.
A beautiful challenge between two great champions, which opened in the best way the approaching race to Roland Garros starting on May 26th.
formula 1 – Formula 1 day was less exciting. In fact, in Bahrain, Sebastian Vettel won with absolute easealready starting, at the fourth Grand Prix, to dig a small furrow in the standings between him and his pursuers. Behind him, in yesterday's race, the two Lotuses of the excellent Kimi Raikkonen, the German's first follower also in the world standings, and Romain Grosjean.
And the Ferraris? In the rear, very far from the leaders, crippled by their own technical failures. Massa pitted twice and finished fifteenth, while a problem with the mobile spoiler ruined Alonso's race, forced to make long stops in the pits and unable to use the DRS, but still able to fight to the last, climbing positions up to an unexpected , but not very useful, eighth place.
Moto GP – But the most sensational news comes from two wheels: the Spaniard Marc Marquez, riding his Honda, wins the GP of the Americas in Austin, becoming, at 20 years 2 months and 4 days old, the youngest winner ever in the premier class, in his second Grand Prix, breaking Freddie Spencer's record.
The race, with the Hondas that immediately lost all the other competitors, showing an unbridgeable gap, lived entirely on the fight between the two Spanish leprechauns Marquez and Pedrosa who, after leading the race for a long time, was overtaken by his teammate stable 9 laps from the end, unable to catch him anymore. Only sixth is Valentino Rossi, who is also very far behind his Yamaha mate Jorge Lorenzo, who finished third.
The general classification sees Marquez in the lead with 41 points, in cohabitation with Lorenzo. Behind them, at 33 points, Pedrosa. Fourth Rossi, with 30 points.
