The era has gone by when you have players who win six or seven major championships. We're really seeing that this year. So far, two players who have never won a major won their first this year, and at Wimbledon there's a player you would never expect to be in the final.

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	Washington Former ATP Tour pro MaliVai Washington is providing ESPN.com with in-depth analysis during Wimbledon. Washington, a tennis analyst for ESPN, reached the 1996 Wimbledon final.

David Nalbandian, the first Argentine in a Wimbledon final, has a chance to become another to win his first major on Sunday and become a national hero. That would be a very good thing given the status of the Argentine economy. It would be a refreshing story for Argentina.

But no Argentine has won a major since Guillermo Villas won the Australian Open in 1979. But in that final, Villas was arguably the favorite and in this final, there likely never has been a bigger underdog than Nalbandian. One of his biggest challenges Sunday is going to be going out onto the court and actually feeling he can win and not be overwhelmed by being on the greatest center court in the world. And not be overwhelmed by the occasion of 1 billion people around the world watching -- including everyone in his home country.

If he can handle that, he might actually push Lleyton Hewitt beyond three sets. In The Championships, Hewitt has methodically gone through every single opponent as if grass courts are his best surface. He would have won in straight sets again in the quarterfinal if he hadn't had a small hiccup and let four match points get away.

I can't for the life of me see how Hewitt could not win this match. A big challenge for Hewitt is going into this match knowing he should win. Being such a heavy favorite, he's got to go out and be able to produce the tennis he has produced in his first six matches. But he's such a dogged competitor, if he has to, he'll just will himself to perfection in the final.

We might never see again the type of baseline points we're going to see in the final. Typically, the bigger servers and the serve and volleyers are the players who win at Wimbledon -- not players who are known for their groundstrokes. Neither one of these players are going to be trying to get to the net and serve and volley a lot and finishing the point from the net.

This may be the first year that a new champion will be crowned at all four majors. The Australian and French Open champions had never even won a major before.

This year's Wimbledon is going to cause a big change in the men's game because you're going to have a lot of players who start believing they could be successful on grass. Specifically, the clay-court players, the likes of Alex Corretja -- who has traditionally passed up Wimbledon because he didn't think he could he win. Now with Nalbandian in the final, maybe a lot of players will rethink their schedule and try and prepare for this major. More than any other time in the past decade, these majors are up for grabs.
Pick: Hewitt in four