Spain’s star tennis player Rafael Nadal will say goodbye to tennis after the Davis Cup finals. Nadal, the second player to win the most Grand Slams in the men’s singles category, is counted among the great players of the world. Roger Federer, who played against Nadal for years before his retirement, has left an emotional message for him. Nadal’s friend and rival Federer said that Nadal made him enjoy tennis more.
Federer has said that the rivalry between the two, which lasted 40 matches and 15 years, was the center of attraction for tennis fans. “As you prepare to graduate from tennis, I want to share a few things before I get too emotional,” Federer wrote in an emotional message to Nadal on social media. You have defeated me more times than anyone else has challenged me. Clay Court: Whenever I played against you, I felt like I was playing in your backyard.
You made me struggle here more than I expected. Here I could only present my side against you. You made me reimagine my game, I even increased the size of the racket head. What an amazing record you have had, 14 French Open titles is historic. You have made Spain and the entire world of tennis proud.
There was a tough rivalry between Nadal and Federer.
Federer’s record in Grand Slam finals early in his career was 7–0, but in 2006, Nadal defeated him for the first time in the French Open final. Nadal prevented Federer from winning his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title in 2008. Nadal’s win-loss record against Federer is 26-14.
This record in Grand Slams is 10-4 and in Grand Slam finals it is 6-3. Federer retired from tennis during the Laver Cup in September 2022, when he played with Nadal. During this time Nadal was crying with him. Federer said, your presence with me during that time means a lot to me.
You were with me not as my opponent but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night and your tears will always be the most special moments of my career. Rafa, I know you are focused on the last match of your career, we will talk when it is over.
