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Nadal and Federer at the Australian Open final.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>

Federer and Nadal shake hands after the blistering final match of this year\u2019s Australian Open.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Every possible end to this year\u2019s Australian Open would\u2019ve made a story for the ages. Don\u2019t believe me? Go ahead and pick one. Venus Williams at thirty-six, winning her first major in nine years. Serena Williams at thirty-five, returning to top form, winning her record twenty-third major title and reclaiming the number-one ranking. Roger Federer at thirty-five, winning an improbable eighteenth major title after a sixth-month hiatus, and against his one true rival. Rafa Nadal, at thirty\u2014having seemed, in recent seasons, gnawed on by Father Time, with all the guilty, wide-eyed ravenousness of Goya\u2019s Saturn Devouring His Son<\/em>\u2014unexpectedly capturing his fifteenth major title and making his strongest claim yet to being the greatest player the men\u2019s tour has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Every possible outcome would\u2019ve hit some sweet spot. The Australian Open was a chance to cheer the younger, all-conquering versions of Venus, Roger, Serena, and Rafa\u2014an opportunity to remember how quickly these moments we have to define ourselves can pass us by, and how thin the margins can be. Watching tennis like this appeals to that part of you that flutters and pinwheels: the nostalgia of the cynic, the romance buried in the hard-hearted. It felt like Pluto was the ninth planet again, singing sweeter in the music of the spheres than ever before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tennis is a game of undulating rhythms that exist in four concentric circles\u2014the rhythm of a point, the rhythm of a service game, the rhythm of a return game, the rhythm of a set. They\u2019re interrelated, but they don\u2019t necessarily touch. Like an idea of order.<\/p>\n

For example, serving with advantage in the fifth set, Nadal looked poised to pestle Federer in this, their thirty-fourth match. (He\u2019d already won twenty-three of the others.) True, no player has won as often\u00a0as Federer, but no player has made him suffer like Nadal has. The two first played in 2004, when, in Miami, a seventeen-year-old Nadal sent ripples through the tennis world by defeating the top-ranked Federer, then twenty-three, in straight sets. Since then, they have faced each other on hard courts and clay courts, quick courts and slow courts, half-clay and half-grass courts<\/a>, Dubai courts and Cincinnati courts\u2014for better and for worse, in sickness and in health.<\/p>\n

Nadal\u2019s advantages have been largely physiological. His thumping, left-handed, topspin forehand has spent the better part of a decade grinding down Federer\u2019s backhand\u2014a backhand that is, crucially, one-handed. The deep, high-bouncing ball is this backhand\u2019s structural flaw, like that blind spot in a car\u2019s rearview mirror. It\u2019s extremely difficult to generate pace with such a backhand, especially while Nadal, like Navratilova and McEnroe before him, has made an art of his left-handedness. His game is a mosaic of stroke patterns designed to advantage what in Latin, and still in Spanish, would be known as his sinister side. If Federer\u2019s elegant, artisanal backhand has been the cobra of the ATP Tour, Nadal\u2019s forehand has been the mongoose.<\/p>\n

But Federer brought a surprise with him to this final: he\u2019d altered his backhand. Suddenly, he was hitting it flatter. Much flatter. You could see the difference in the shot off the racquet, and in his follow-through. It was curt\u2014the high curlicue finish of the racquet with the twist of the wrist was gone. Now he swung the backhand more like someone opening a stuck door.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Federer\u2019s attempts to save himself in a point by using the topspin and slice often led to his demise in these matchups. Nadal knew it. Federer knew it, too, but he seemed unable to adjust. The strength of his one-handed backhand is in its flexibility. It\u2019s an easier stroke through which to master and disguise variations of spin. And unless you\u2019re Nicol\u00e1s Almagro<\/a>, Richard Gasquet<\/a>, or Stan Wawrinka<\/a>, there\u2019s not much you can do off the backhand wing with a one-handed when you\u2019re pushed to the back of the court but slice the ball back. So Federer, possibly taking cues from Grigor Dimitrov\u2019s electric semifinal performance against Nadal, decided almost without fail to swing hard and swing flat, without fear of Rafa\u2019s forehand. It bore fruit for Federer in the first and third sets, but the second and fourth were near mirror images of each other, with Federer\u2019s own forehand\u2014widely considered the greatest shot in the history of tennis\u2014letting him down repeatedly.<\/p>\n

And so there they were, the one secret between the two of them now out in the open. Nadal had had four sets to learn Federer\u2019s backhand adjustment, and the match seemed to have stabilized. Nadal was one point from 4\u20132, with a vise grip on the match\u2014he leaned forward at the baseline, fidgeted with one shoulder and then the other, touched one side of his nose and then the other, and then the other again; pushed aside his hair, picked at his shorts from the back, all prologue to the motion of his serve.<\/p>\n

The point total at this moment of the match: Federer, 131; Nadal, 131.<\/p>\n

As Nadal, mid serve, stared up at the ball hanging tamely in the air above him, he was never closer to winning the match. Then he tried to surprise Federer with a body serve, and Federer, on reflex, blocked the ball, and it tumbled crosscourt, deep into the corner it came from. Federer, completely on the defensive now, repositioned himself at the center of the baseline. All he could do now was wait. Nadal went for the wide shot he\u2019d passed up on the serve. Soon a lane for a short crosscourt winner opened up, a shot tailor-made for Nadal\u2019s lefty topspin forehand. Nadal went for it and it clipped the tape on the top of the net. But the topspin didn\u2019t allow the unforced error to die a quick death, no\u2014it popped and remaindered down to a spot on the court, falling, in the end, far enough to be out without question, even at first glance.<\/p>\n

The next point was a rapid-fire five-shot slugfest that Federer ended emphatically with a flat backhand crosscourt winner. The break comes shortly after, Nadal spraying an inside-out forehand from the deuce side wide at the end of another hard exchange of ground strokes. Nadal is broken: three-all in the fifth now. Nadal never won another game in the match; he claimed only eight more points. Sure, there was the quality and emphatic drama of the twenty-six-shot rally two games later<\/a> with Federer surging at 4\u20133. But it was Nadal\u2019s unforced error\u2014when everything was balanced seemingly on the width of an atom\u2014that changed everything. They say baseball is a game of inches, but a debate that could have lasted a lifetime\u2014who\u2019s the greatest male tennis player you\u2019ve ever seen?\u2014was ended by a quarter-centimeter of braided net cord as the world turned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of\u00a0<\/i>The Ground\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0Heaven. He is currently writing a book about tennis,\u00a0<\/i>The Circuit,\u00a0which will be published in 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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