Rafael Nadal: Exposing the Invincibility of the Greatest of All Time

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Published: June 8, 2011

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The average American responds to the question, “How was work today?” with an answer proportionate to the amount of additional work that they were forced to do. 

Those hectic days when the phone is ringing off the hook, the emails are nonstop and the mountain of paperwork upon your desk grows taller and taller?  They are rarely chalked up as pleasant. 

Relentlessness is overwhelming.  No matter how good you are at what you do, you feel self-doubt.  Even if by some stretch of your imagination, you were the best who ever lived at your occupation.

You know, like Roger Federer. 

There is not a single person I know, and not a single person whom anyone I know knows, who is as good at their job as Federer is at his.  Yet even Federer has those kinds of days.

Not coincidentally, they always seem to occur when Rafael Nadal stands across the net.  Sunday’s French Open Championship was just another one of those days.

Federer was Federer.  As he does every match, he hit some of the most ridiculous shots; precise lasers from corner to corner with pinpoint accuracy. 

But one by one, Rafa returned them—often times with ease.  And the points would continue, until a frustrated Federer committed an unforced error while attempting an impossible kill. 

In his heart, the greatest tennis player who ever lived believes that impossible kills are the only way to beat Rafael Nadal.

I have watched Nadal play on countless occasions.  My reaction Sunday morning was no different than usual:

“Damn, son!”

Unfortunately, Federer has the same reaction.  Forget breaking Federer’s serve, Nadal breaks his spirit. 

When Federer is trailing Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray, he relies on his calmness and strict adherence to fundamentals to summ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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