Added: Jul 8, 2008

From: NTDTV

Duration: 1:18

New Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal returned home to Majorca yesterday. He had a flying visit to Stuttgart to announce he was pulling out of this week's tournament. there due to a knee injury. The four-times French Open champion has a knee injury. He is the first Spaniard in more than four decades to win the Wimbledon men's singles title. The 22-year-old, who has twice won the Stuttgart Cup, says his immediate focus was to get some rest. Nadal stands on the verge of becoming the best player in the world. Nadal stamped his supremacy over Federer when he ended his Swiss rival's five-year Wimbledon reign on Sunday in a heart-stopping five-set thriller. In addition to snatching the All England Club crown, the Spaniard also ended Federer's record streak of 65 wins on grass. And Nadal became the first man since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win both the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season. And now to windsurfing. Aruba's Sarah-Quita Offringa, recently turned 17 celebrated after winning the Women's Freestyle competition of the Windsurf World Championship in Pozo Izquierdo. Offringa, grom the Dutch Antilles, used the fine weather and crisp wind to beat Daida Ruano of Spain in the final. Third was Junko Nagoshi of Japan. [Quita Offringa, New World Champion]: "I wasn't sure if I would win or not." "And they said the result, that I had won, and then I was really really happy." Without any doubt the star today was the young sailor from Aruba, Sarah-Quita.

Channel: News

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