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...believe that you are unfortunate to play tennis in the era of Federer and Rafael Nadal and hence not able to win as many Grand Slams as you deserve? Harish Bijwe WESTLAND, MICH...
Winning Shot Roger Federer is both in harmony with and in control of all the elements of a tennis court [June 29]. That is what makes us his fans. As for Rafael Nadal, he is constantly fighting all these elements, including his own body (he had to pull out of Wimbledon for overworking his knees). Nadal's game is exciting to watch, but one gets tired of watching him win with a struggle, 10 times in a row. Nadal can beat Federer every single time they meet, but that won't make him greater than Federer, nor it will make...
...Read TIME's 10 Questions with Rafael Nadal...
...knock on him. He displays real humanity, and you rarely get that with an athlete of his caliber. And it shows you how physically gifted he is, how good he is with a racket, that he has been so successful even without this samurai mind-set. Nadal is the opposite in some ways. He can blow a two-set lead, lose match points and still be absolutely confident that he's going...
There were a thousand individual memories - a tidy little package of what we like about sports. But there was one moment at the end, after the trophy presentation, when Federer and Nadal were circling the court in opposite directions with their trophies. And the place was dark but for everyone's camera flashes. Federer had his runner-up trophy - which was jarring in itself - and they had been fighting and battling, and they pass each other and sort of spontaneously they slap each other a high-five. It was a simple but unrehearsed gesture that for some reason I found...