Presenting herewith the second and final edition of Decalink for the week:

• Forbes: Oilers 3-0 up.

• Salil Benegal’s cricket blog: It is called the man on the outer. Do check it out if you are a cricket fan.

• Cricket 24×7: Manish Varma puts in his thoughts after an Indian loss.

• NBA.com: Heat-Pistons game 1 analysis.

• DNA: Anand helps India fightback.

• More DNA: Sania Mirza loses to Michaella Krajicek.

• Reuters: Rossi says no to F1.

• Dan’s Take: Raptors should trade down.

• World Cup Blog: World Cup vibrators taken off shelf.

• Tennis Fans: Tommy Robredo wins in Hamburg.

Hope you enjoyed another edition of Decalink. Is there any interesting stuff you would like appearing in the Monday edition of Decalink? Mail me then!

This is quite special. Nadal has carried on from where he left a year ago on clay. He has already won at Monte Carlo and now has made Nadal-meat of the opponents at Barcelona - ending with 6-4, 6-4 and finally 6-0 versus Tommy Robredo in the Final.

In the process, he has overhauled Bjorg’s record of 46 consecutive wins on Clay. Only the 53 consecutive mark of Guillermo Vilas, who achieved the feat in 1977, remains.

Can Nadal achieve this? The right question should be ‘Who can stop him?’ Federer has been no match for Nadal on clay, yet. No one else looks close to beating him. There has been a lot of talk of how professional tennis has become so much more competitive which is essentially true.

However, a bit of recent history needs to be refreshed. When Sampras retired, people feared that he was the last dominating Champion men’s tennis would see. No sooner had we seen the back of Sampras, we had Federer dominating. Now, we have Nadal breaking past records of a comparitively less competitive era. In other sports as well, the dominations have existed. Case in point - Schumacher in F1 not long ago.

I guess the champions will make their mark, whatever the era. After all, they are champions - or campeón as they say it in Spanish.