The Paris knot

For now, all three behave just like Alexander the Great on the hill above Asia Minor, when the sages said that the king of Asia would become the one who untied the oxhide knot they had tied.
Rafa, Novak and Roger do not have a sword to cut a knot like the Macedonian king, but they have a counterpart to that - rackets, and on Thursday, on "GOAT day", in the manner of a great military leader, they cut the knot in their own champion way.
One step deeper for all three in the draw, one step closer to each other!
You see how tennis can be interesting based on the intricate draw, and thus gain extra dynamism.
Rafael Nadal, the absolute king of Roland Garros, has no problem saying:
"So what if the three of us are in the same part of the draw?" Sooner or later, we have to meet, and the younger guys deserved to have a little luck in the draw with their games. I am now the third holder", said Rafa so sincerely, from the heart, in that virtual conversation with Barbara Schett and Mats Wilander.
Rafa may be the third holder, but we all know very well that in the metaphysics of the Roland Garros order, he is "numero uno".
I would not like to make any premature assessments of predicting possible quarterfinal and semifinal collisions in the big three, but we are really closer to that option now.
Although a Grand Slam match can represent a gap as big as the Colorado Canyon between the two rounds, we know that the tennis giants who have been making steps of seven miles in these almost two decades of this sport are in the game.

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