Best Of The Decade In Sports: Roger Federer Vs Rafael Nadal

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Published: May 8, 2010

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Every decade in sports produces transcendent moments and memories.  Inevitably, some of these moments become ingrained in the collective minds and hearts of sports fans everywhere and naturally become over time, the stuff of legend.

This past decade has been no different.  Throughout we have witnessed some of the best sporting moments not only of the decade, but of the respective histories of their sport.

Whether it was The Boston Red Sox coming back from the brink against The Yankees, Tiger Woods winning The 2008 U.S. Open with a major knee injury, Michael Phelps' eight Olympic gold medals, or Jonny Wilkinson's game-winning kick in the 2003 World Cup, sports have been good to us this decade.

But it hasn't been as good as Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer.

Of all of the teams, players, and dazzling moments, these two players have exemplified all of the characteristics that make a sport great.  Their matches are epic; filled to the brim with drama and shot-making of the highest order.  They are both hungry and humble.  They hold each other in the highest regard.  They are one another's measuring stick.

They are the yin and yang of their sporting generation.  Two players whose differences are so apparent one wonders if even their DNA would radically reflect it as well.  And yet, like yin and yang it seems impossible to imagine a world in which one could exist without the other.  Two men whose places in history are brighter and better because the other existed.

But where did it all start?  How did this become what the sporting world may one day look back upon and say was one of the greatest rivalries of all time in sports?

 

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