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A rivalry is more than head to heads or titles won. Here's a thread of why the Federer-Nadal rivalry (2004-2022) is considered one of the greatest and most unique in sports history:

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are mirror opponents. A once in a century jackpot with two style of play at the opposite ends of the sports' techniques. In terms of athlete's posture, they are eeringly of the exact same height and weight, yet Federer is a right-handed player with a one-handed backhand and Nadal is a left-handed player with a two-handed backhand. Federer encapsulated the elegant, fast-paced serve and volley style of the past decade whereas Nadal introduced innovative heavy groundstrokes, topspin, and defensive baseline plays. They encapsulated the progress of the sports' development and their matches popularised tennis to unprecedented heights.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are the respective best at their dominant surfaces. They both stil hold world records for most Grand Slam titles on grass (Federer with 8 Wimbledons) and on clay (Nadal with 14 French Opens), respectively dubbed King of Grass and King of Clay. From 2006 to 2008, they played every single Wimbledon and French Open finals against each other.

Roger Federer was the undisputed current world number one since 2004. He admitted he almost lost his passion for the game due to lack of competition until Nadal became the first to beat him in a grand slam final. They became the only pair in history to share the top two year end rankings for 6 years, from 2005 to 2010 and 2017. In their own words, they were each other's biggest motivations to achieve greatness.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were the first to dominate the sports consistently, pushing away one or two odd times Grand Slam winners. Together they won consecutive majors from 2005 to 2007, 2008 to 2009, and 2017 to 2018. Their dominance kickstarted what was dubbed the 'golden era of tennis'.

As tournament seedings are based on rankings, their 40 matches were tournament finals, with the all time record of 9 Grand Slam finals. They were each other's partners in the worst and best moments of their careers.

They played what is considered by most tennis analysts as the greatest tennis match in history: The Wimbledon final of 2008 for 4 hours and 48 minutes.

They were leaders of the game from the background, being president and vice president of the players' council for more than 10 years with both only agreeing to join if the other's participating.

They have played countless charity matches to support each other's foundations. In 2020 they broke the world record together, with their exhibition in Africa attracting the highest ever attendance in a tennis match.

Known for their sportmanships, Nadal has openly expressed that he cried of happiness when Federer won his first ever French Open (Nadal's best tournament), whilst Federer expressed his wish to have a draw match and shared his 2017 Australian Open with Nadal.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are two of the most successful, consistent, and longstanding tennis players of all time, playing more than 25 years of professional tennis with a record of 42 Grand Slams between them. Many have not known the sport without them, they are representative of a generation.

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal remain close friends after almost 20 years of facing each other on court, having stated their friendship as the proudest milestone of their rivalry. As per his personal wish, Federer will retire playing doubles alongside Nadal in his last ever competitive tennis match.

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It's the way Mirka and Rafa hug last, and it's the way Roger's father went to find Rafa to give him a hug

I am not well.

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Rafael Nadal has never been in professional tennis without Roger Federer.

He won his first six Grand Slam titles against Federer, and first became world number one chasing Federer.

Federer was his greatest inspiration, rival, partner, and most importantly, his greatest friend in the sports that defined their lives.

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scrolling through all the federer/fedal content just to feel something again

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they are holding hands while crying THEY ARE HOLDING HANDS WHILE CRYING

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Ah yes. Me. My partner. And their 4 meter titan.

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me watching 2008 Wimbledon final on YouTube for the 5th time:

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“I have spoken to him during the past few months, I would say that we have spoken a lot. We spoke for different things that have been happening this year. We talked about work and also on a personal level, to find out how our lives are in these times. I know he is better and I hope he will return as soon as possible. All the time you spend outside is bad. We have to be clear and know that we will no longer have 10 years of Federer. He is one of the great icons of our sport and he is good for everyone who is on the court.” 

Rafael Nadal on Roger Federer, RG 2020

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In some way, I think he is happy when I am winning and I am happy when he is doing the things well.

Rafa Nadal on Roger Federer (via kb9-ships-mistercriky)

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we didn’t get laver cup this year so rafa equalling rogers slam record gave us the fedal content we deserved🥺

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Not to be nsfw but imagine someone actually wanting to talk to u all the time and not get bored of you wow

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Uh yeah, same

~Julien

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you’re telling me there are people who listen to music and DON’T use it as the soundtrack for the intense cinematic daydream plot they’ve always got playing in the back of their head???

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feel free to share + repost these images. stand with serbia.

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ik jun? don’t try to understand him. he’s just a nutjob. 

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i want her (gyeoul) to be happy with my friend jeong won. jeong won, i’m sure He (God) will understand. besides, when your brain and heart are saying two different things, your heart is right.