: Pause, rewind, play: How the Grand Slam finals in 2009 transformed Federer, Nadal’s tennis legacy #IndiaNEWS The year 2009 changed men’s tennis in such an emphatic manner that the effects are still

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Pause, rewind, play: How the Grand Slam finals in 2009 transformed Federer, Nadal’s tennis legacy #IndiaNEWS
The year 2009 changed men’s tennis in such an emphatic manner that the effects are still being felt more than a decade later.More specifically, the four men’s singles Grand Slam finals that year substantiated one of most unique experiences in modern sport – the ‘Fedal’ phenomenon – where the exciting race and the polarising ‘GOAT’ debate involving Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal reached its peak. We may not have realised the impact it would have on the future then; how could anyone when a 22-year-old Rafael Nadal was shredding record books while Roger Federer, at 26, had gone past Pete Sampras’ Grand Slam tally. But the four Grand Slams that year transformed the legacies of two of the greatest players the game has seen and the sport they played. At the Australian Open, Nadal beat Federer in a five-setter to win his only title in Melbourne. Federer then won his only French Open trophy, after Nadal was stunned by Robin Sodering. Wimbledon saw the excruciating final between Federer and Andy Roddick that went to 16-14 in the fifth set. The US Open saw a new champion emerge in Juan Martin del Potro. If either one of the four finals had gone the other way,...Read more

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