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So, no risk of rain today.

Just a glorious English
summer's afternoon.

Welcome to the start
of Wimbledon 2008.

As is tradition, of course,

the defending men's champion will play
the first match on the center court.

Roger Federer beginning his campaign
for a six successive Wimbledon title.

I fell in love with Wimbledon
because of its tradition, its history

that you just feel
very honored and privileged

to be playing on such
a perfectly laid grass court.

You know that somebody has been
going around with the scissors

and making sure that every
blade of the grass is perfect.

A super performance from
the defending champion.

Rafael Nadal, clearly,
he is a better player

than he was even a year ago when he
pushed Roger Federer in the final.

Well played, Roger Federer.

I knew I had played
a good tournament

and was close to winning.

But it was tough at the time,

because I didn't know if I would ever
have another chance to win Wimbledon.

First point for the
man from Mallorca.

- Just two breaks in the match.
- 6-4.

But it's a three sets
win for Rafael Nadal.

He is on his way
for Wimbledon 2008.

Roger's the greatest balletic
mover that tennis has ever seen.

One of the greatest ball strikers,

you know, phenomenal,
you know, beyond belief.

Game Federer.

The defending champion,
yet, to drop a set.

And Federer.

Federer simply in a different
world at the moment.

And it's not a world with
too many players inhabit.

Give him a chance, Roger!

He's been in the zone for the last
five years here at the all-in club.

Oh!

A rampant Rafael
Nadal in superb form.

Rafa has got that intensity and energy
that's so debilitating to opponents.

So intimidating that it
tires you out mentally.

Rafael Nadal through
to the quarter finals.

Unbelievable shot.

Too strong.

Absolutely relentless.

No doubt that there's been
some surprises, you know,

especially Andy and Novak losing and when
you see this draw sort of being narrowed down

and you see that Rafael is the big
favorite, you know, on the other section,

and I'm a big favorite
in my section,

obviously, you start thinking more
about the, you know, a possible final.

Game set...

It will be six finals in
a row for Roger Federer.

It will be the dream final.

- Federer against Nadal.
- Three sets to love.

I've seen a lot of tennis matches

and I've commentated a lot and
watched a lot and played a lot.

If you add everything together,

there's no question
into my mind overall

the 2008 match
between Rafa and Roger

was the greatest tennis match ever.

I'm well prepared.

I've had a good championship
so far, you know,

and I always think Rafa as the... as
the test, sort of what I was hoping for.

I mean Rafa is a great competitor.

And every time I'm going to play him,
I want to try to beat him, you know.

Federer says I know how to play
Rafa, I know what I have to do.

Do you know what you have to do
to beat Roger Federer on grass?

No. No.

I'll only try my best, you know, go
on court, try to play my best tennis,

try to put my rhythm,
the intensity and

later if he plays better
than me and he beats me,

just congratulate him
like... like every year.

Wimbledon is that distant
magical place that you...

across the ocean that had this
aura about it and this beauty.

There's a magic to
Wimbledon that players feel.

It is a combination of
where you're playing,

who you're playing

and the quality of tennis.

You know, the tension

and the excitement,

everything is just so close to
the forefront of your emotions.

The match I played with Borg in '80 was
often talked about as one of the greatest,

if not the best match
that people had seen.

And once that great
tension in the men's final.

A tie break in the fourth set.

I think we brought out the
best from each other.

We gave always a hundred percent.

I had this tailor-made
like super start.

I like to think I made him a better player
but he certainly made me a better player.

Oh!

I knew that I had to bring out my A-game every
time I stepped on the court with Martina.

Yes.

When I played Chris, you know, it's this
mind games you play against each other

when you know each other that well.

Especially when you do
have contrasting styles.

And Nadal and Federer embody that.

The key to a great rivalry is contrast,
and you couldn't have more polar opposites.

Roger, when he's walking on the Centre
Court at Wimbledon looks, so relaxed,

just embraces the environment and does it
in a way that doesn't use extra energy.

Rafa is someone with high
energy, high intensity.

Look, we've seen what he does with the bottles
on the court, likes things in a certain order,

wants a lot of stuff
done certain ways.

I remember seeing Nadal
in his sleeveless shirt,

bulging biceps.

And then right next to him he'd
got what looked like a prince.

Not a hair out of place.

I like that lefty-righty,
the way they dress,

the way they act, their
temperaments, their personalities.

Rafa, you know,
he's the swashbuckler.

But, you know, he's more emotional and
he wears his emotions more on sleeves.

You can sort of see
what he's feeling more.

And Roger's, you know,
sort of the ever the classy,

you know,
almost perfect guy like Borg was.

So, Federer, twenty-six-year-old,
maestro from Switzerland.

Number one in the world
since February 2004.

He's going for title number six.

It was something not even the great
Swede Bjorn Borg could achieve.

It's hard enough to feel the pressure
of having to win a tournament.

But when you're going
for six in a row,

I did the six in a row, you know you'll
never ever have the chance again, never.

So the pressure is
exponentially greater.

Everybody talked about this match and I was
the umpire, the spectator of this beauty.

Here comes Roger.

The tennis I was able to watch, the...
the players we had, tournament it was.

I believe as well, you know, I'm sorry
I don't want to feel like a big head,

but I believe that
officiating was great as well.

Roger Federer...

Oh-fifteen.

It's just fantastic, isn't it?
Straight out of the blocks.

Both players look like they are timing the
ball well, constructing the rallies well.

In tennis, you have
to put your opponent away.

We have to always win the last
point to get over the finish line.

Each point I play and every
ball I hit has the intention,

of harassing the opponent.

Finding a way for that
shot to win me the point.

A break-up serve, it is.

First bluff to the Spaniard in his attempt
to win Wimbledon for the first time.

Nadal leads two game to one.

I do believe that as a tennis player
it's... it's constant problem solving

and trying for solutions
and trying out things.

On the surface, if you're just
watching as a spectator,

you might just look, oh,
these guys' play so good.

But all the little decisions we have
to take in every point, in every game,

in every match and every tournament,
there are so many of them.

The biggest difference between
any other sport and tennis

is that you have
nobody else to talk to.

You have a coach but
he can't talk to them.

You have to problem-solve
by yourself.

Most fundamentally,
Federer is a sporting aristocrat.

He embodies virtues such as effortlessness,
pure skill, talent, artistry.

These are reflected both in his
person, in the way he carries himself

and more fundamentally
in the way he plays tennis.

Nadal stands for effort and
its associated qualities...

endurance, muscle power,
fortitude, stamina.

And those fundamental differences
which are there all the time

when they play each other,
they really come to a head.

I think that's probably the biggest
difference how they both feel the game.

Roger with a lot more flexibility on... on
what he does because of his God-given talent.

And Rafa with his tenacity
and his will to win.

The opponent serves and
then you need to return.

So you have to go from something that
is very explosive, very athletic,

to something calm,
with a lot of feeling,

with anticipation and harmony.

And to combine these two opposites

results in a good game.

A loss at set point.

This is top tennis now.

Tennis is a very cerebral game.

You have to be able to deal
with the ups and downs.

An advantage for Federer.

We are back to this game.

The point is you have
to know yourself.

Oh.

That's a real body blow.

Advantage Nadal.

Game for a set.

Nadal.

Sixth game to four.

I believe doubts are good

because they keep you alert at all
times, regardless of your opponent.

Never considering myself good
enough and always having that doubt

Constantly pushes me to improve.

I think he played
way better than me.

I wasn't able to do anything.

I didn't play as well as the
other days, like I wanted to play,

but, whatever.

I'm a big believer that behind
every champion there is a force,

there is a father, there is a mother,
there is a grandmother, there is a coach,

there is somebody that actually
is a force behind this individual.

Rafael began to train as a kid,
every day.

Every day,
every single day of his life,

as if it was a tennis tournament.

As if he was playing a final.

I always thought that
to make it to the top...

would be hard,

and that we would have to
face many kinds of problems.

That's why I always tried to foster
in Rafael a tough personality,

to be able to withstand
such difficulties.

My ambition would be to
get to the highest level.

But for the moment, I'm here,
I'm 112 in the world,

and there's still a long way. You have
to keep trying, improving, everything.

It's not easy at all.

Well in that time he wasn't
the Nadal that we all know now.

I was practicing with him
very frequently in Mallorca,

so we knew each other very well.

During that time I
won a Grand Slam,

I was number one in the world.

I remember that in practice
I almost always beat him,

but once you began to play with him on
the court, he turned into a machine.

The first time we played an
official tournament was in Hamburg.

I started playing professionally
when I was very young, 16,

so I was not as strong
as the other players.

Because the ball came to him a bit
faster, he hit it a bit late...

and he began to lift his arm
more than he was supposed to.

And he realized that was
also helping him win.

He's able to play a type of tennis
that hadn't been seen before.

Making it so quickly to
the professional circuit,

made me find solutions
to be competitive

and that's the truth.

A sixteen-year-old has just put up
one of the world's best players.

But it's clear that he had a
killer instinct inside the court,

an ambition that I could
only wish I had half of.

The tournament you'd
most like to win?

Wimbledon.

This was Federer's house.

This is where he was unbeatable.

Nobody beat this guy.

And Nadal was trying to bring
his clay-court game,

his baseline game, to bear
on the grass at Wimbledon.

Fifteen-Oh.

We talk about the
intensity of Rafael Nadal

and we don't talk about
that with... with Roger.

He's so relaxed, so this
and that, yeah, yeah.

But when the ball is hit, the
intensity level is exactly the same.

Federer definitely looking
like he's finding that rhythm,

that groove on his serve, which we've seen,
which has been ever present this tournament.

Okay, boys, good luck to you both.

There's a difference between a
brilliant tennis player and a champion.

And many brilliant tennis
players don't become champions.

And until you taste victory at the very
highest level, you don't know how to do it.

Game, set match, Federer.

You always dream about it.

You go and play with your friends when
you're ten years old and you... you go on...

on the lawn in the backyard
and you play Wimbledon there.

And finally, after years of
underachievement, Federer wins Wimbledon.

Now I'm... I'm much more
relaxed going into Grand Slams

just because I don't have
to prove it like I used to.

Game, set match, Federer.

And Roger Federer has confirmed his ranking
as the number one player in the world

in emphatic fashion.

I think when Roger arrived on tour,
he put the tennis to another level.

To him, Wimbledon is
the most important tournament,

it's always the tournament
he wants to win.

Federer just kept on
beating everybody.

I think he really has
a passion for the game.

Otherwise he would never
have gone this far.

Federer's game is very
much dialogue with tennis' past.

You see some of Borg's
smoothness around the court,

you see the explosive
side of Sampras,

you see a bit of Laver.

He took elements of the old style.

And on top of that, he superimposed a
very powerful topspin baseline game.

When something looks easy,
it does not mean that it's easy.

It means that Roger is able to
do something very difficult.

Yes!

He's a lot more complex than
the majority of players,

much more creative.

Actually when I was young,

I never thought I could play tennis
the way I'm playing it right now.

I always knew there was
some hidden talent in me

with my strokes and
with my style of play,

but that I could actually
explore it as much as I did now.

It's for me also a big surprise.

Roger Federer is the greatest
all-around talent I've ever seen.

So he's up among, you know,
the greatest of all time.

Let's be honest, Borg won five
in a row, okay, five in a row,

and that's along with six French's.

So that's why you have to put him up there
in the highest echelons of the sport.

If he stays up at this level, he's going
to have at least a couple more Wimbledon,

he's going to win at least
another Open or so, an Australian,

and he's going to
challenge for the French.

I mean without a doubt this guy's got
by far and away the best chance to...

to win the French Open.

Then Nadal came along

and put a pressure on him that
he's just... he's never had before.

Roger Federer coming
out for what is undoubtedly

the most significant match
in his entire career to date.

For the first time he is playing in the
final of the French Open at Roland Garros.

At the moment Roger Federer is
in a long list of great champions

who've never won at Roland Garros.

McEnroe, Connors, Sampras,
of course, Edberg, Becker.

They could never
master the red clay.

Rafael Nadal, 2005,

who came here and became the
first man since Mats Wilander

to win the title on
his first appearance.

He's looking today for his sixtieth
successive victory on clay courts.

Rafa is born to
compete against Roger.

First, Rafa is lefty.

He's right in life but he's
lefty on the tennis court.

You don't have many lefty
in the top hundred, so you...

you don't practice much with lefty and you
don't play much against lefties on the tour.

So it's something
you have to adapt.

And with Rafa playing the huge topspin
in which the ball bounce very high,

it's very tough on the one hand
backhand to play over the shoulder.

So it was always a
challenge for Roger.

I think Nadal was probably the
first one to ask him questions

that he was unable to answer.

Nadal owns this place and
he's such a tough competitor.

Roger, for a few years he didn't have anyone
really contesting him and he won so easily.

For like three years, I mean, he was just no...
no disrespect to Philippoussis and Roddick

but they weren't, you know, Nadal.

And so I felt like he's...
he's been challenged here.

I think Nadal was necessary.

People saying Federer is
unbeatable, he's got no weaknesses.

And then Nadal came along
with this very particular game.

In... in some larger sense you can only
say that the gods of tennis sat around

and thought the game
is becoming unbalanced

and, in a sense, he was put on earth purely
for the purpose of defeating Federer.

He's a fighter and

he's a grinder and he
deserves it to win here I think.

- Well, you deserve to win too, Roger.
- Thank you.

We'll see at Wimbledon.

New ball, three.

These two, it's a fantastic rivalry and...
and we sit here watching today's match

and... and I don't think anyone really
knows which way it's going to go.

We are living our match, you know,

obviously the... the players
making history, not the officials.

We... we're part of the... of the game,
we're part of the match, but we are,

there is two plus one.

Real atmosphere
bubbling up in here.

Game Nadal.

Game Nadal.

Yeah, it's pepped enough.

And Nadal is very
much back in this set.

I think I'm the kind of person that

always gives it my all.

Competition is about winning.

What have you got to do to win
a point against Rafael Nadal?

Rafa is the greatest fighter I've
ever seen on the tennis court.

And I played Connors thirty times.

I know what it's like to play
guys that seem like every point

is the last point they're ever
going to play and that's...

it's inspiring but it's...
it's... it's also intimidating.

Disappointment for
the Federer camp.

Advantage Nadal.

Amazement from the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen,
as a courtesy to the players,

remind to be quiet
during the balls.

Game Nadal.

He has forced his way
back into this set

and will serve for a two-set lead.

Nadal leads five game to four.

Second set.

Is the great man
running out of ideas?

He's certainly got to make
something happen pretty soon.

He's certainly running out of time,
it would appear.

And it's set point for a two
set lead to the Spaniard.

Two sets it is to Rafael Nadal,
the five-time defending champion.

Well,
he's got a mountain to climb now.

Nadal leads by two sets to oh.

The first two sets when I look
back at that finals, you know,

it's like I played them
but maybe I was a bit...

how do you... how do you say it?

I'm not sure if I really believed
that I was going to win the match.

My problem was that I had lost in the
French Open finals a month earlier

against Rafa in a terrible way.

Rafael, I think he had a
great year in clay courts

so we went to Roland Garros,

and I believe Rafael
played his best tournament.

Rafael Nadal had been trying to
reel in Roger Federer for years.

This guy just plays
so hard every point.

And then finally he absolutely thrashed
Federer in a way that he'd never done before.

A rare vision.

Roger Federer without that confidence,
without the champion's body language.

That was destructive tennis.

Federer looked like
an old man that day.

Right now he's embarrassed
to be out there.

He just doesn't know what to do.

Game, set and match, Nadal.

6-1, 6-3, 6-0

I think he was affected
by this loss in... in Paris.

You maybe try to forget
or you try to put it in the...

in the background that
you lost that badly.

I wish it was a different outcome.
I wish I could have...

Look, it doesn't matter to...
now what happened, you know,

I mean the match is over,
clay court season is over.

If you see Nadal the way he plays,

it was like I remember
first seeing him, I'm like

this guy's going to be one of the
greatest clay court players at...

of all time, that's a given. But I don't
know if that's going to translate on grass.

2006 and then 2007
Rafa was knocking on the door.

And it was a time where he was the
king of clay, I was the king of grass.

All of the tennis world
would be watching.

Wimbledon is a very
special tournament,

Personally, I always
dreamt of playing on grass,

because it's pretty much the only
tournament where that can be done.

Federer has never been challenged
like this in a Wimbledon final.

He's never gone the distance,
he's never gone to five sets,

he's never been two
sets to one down.

That... that point you say, okay,
no, no, Rafa can maybe win Wimbledon

and he's going to be in...
in Rogers' head.

Second championship point.

It's five in a row.

Fantastic.

It was 2007.

I felt bad in the sense that...

I wasn't able to overcome the
adversities in such an important moment.

That hurt.

Is there a way back in for Federer?

There's no doubt. He has the
ability, but right now down two sets.

Does even he have the belief, and that's
what we're going to have to find out.

It's going to be very hard for
him to turn it around right now.

What if Nadal beats him on grass?

Well, if he beats him on grass
everything changes.

Everything.

The... the landscape
would shift completely.

30-40.

I think Roger was feeling that Rafa
was getting better on the grass.

Every year he got a little closer.

It was before that I
think Roger was feeling

that he can play just average
tennis and he'll still win.

But as Rafa was getting better and better
he knew he had to raise his level and he...

I think he was feeling
the pressure that way.

Oh, he's got him again.

I remember the clouds started
to darken, the wind picked up

and it was like Federer's mood was
actually changing as the weather changed.

His mood was probably darkening.

So disgusted with
himself Nadal still resists.

It's amazing as well when you sort of
see the way how this match has unfolded

and you just sort of feel like...

Today's the day for Nadal.

Today'sthe day.

As the match evolved,

you sort of sensed something special
was happening because Nadal was winning.

Federer was the favorite.

He'd been the king of Wimbledon
and won plenty of times already.

But Nadal hadn't.

And it looked like this was
going to be his opportunity. So

that created an enormous
amount of excitement.

But you just felt it was never going
to be plain sailing, you knew that

Federer was going to have an
opportunity at some stage.

The players are going off.

Line judges off, everybody off.

The umpire will stay up there
probably and be pushed off the court.

There he goes, bye-bye.

You always think when a break is taken
that it favors the man who's losing.

Federer certainly is
losing at the moment.

This championship, well,
it's hanging by a thread.

I try to go back to the locker
room as quick as I could

because you don't know how long the
rain delay is actually going to take.

People sometimes cannot believe that all
the players are in the same locker room.

It's a very important moment because
there you can resettle again,

you can talk to your team, you can calm
down again a little bit if you're panicking.

We saw Mirka quickly outside of the locker
room, which is very important, you know.

She's also very positive,
always believes that Roger can win

and... and that helps him a lot.

I think the emotional
part about me about playing

really could be because I seeked
perfection maybe way too early in my life.

I thought I could play these
perfect tennis shots backhand,

forehands, drop shots,
you name it, smashes.

And I think I probably thought
I could hit shots I saw on TV.

The players I used to admire,

Boris Becker,

Stefan Edberg,

Pete Sampras.

They were the Wimbledon
champions at the time.

They were maybe the
number one in the world.

So I think that inspired me
to play the way I played then.

Very often I would come in and go like,
okay, confident, happy and everything

and then and I'd be like, bang, hitting a wall
and realizing, well, it's not possible yet,

you're not strong enough,
you're not big enough yet.

I don't know, you don't get it yet.

Roger always had a certain expectation
of the standard he wanted to play.

When it didn't go his way, that's... that's
actually the point when he got so annoyed.

So you can imagine my
parents didn't enjoy it

when I was behaving like a brat on the court,
throwing rackets and shouting and screaming

and crying and playing again and
fighting. And it was just too emotional.

It was just too crazy for them. So they
would be very disappointed in my behavior.

We sometimes, we felt really ashamed and we
really took him many times aside and said,

Roger, I mean, I'm not going
along with you anymore,

I'm not playing the fool next to the
court while you perform like this.

I used to tell him, you know, your bad
behavior is like sending an invitation

to your opponent and saying, here I
am, beat me, I'm really to beat today.

So, go ahead.

And I liked to also
get rid of my frustration.

And I thought also it might have helped
that John McEnroe or Goran Ivanisevic

to play better in the process.

Coaches told me it's not good for me that
in the process I won't be playing better,

I will be... usually be playing worse because
it's a negative energy that comes through.

You could see he had talent but the
coaches had to push him quite a bit

a lot of time and he was...
he was testing the limits.

Yes, so he was very young. He was the youngest
of all the players we had at the time.

There were still a lot of moments where
he had difficulties concentrating.

He had so much in him already, but
he could not express everything yet.

He quickly realized that
working on his physical fitness,

would help him to do what
he enjoys most, playing.

And to express even better
what he can do so well,

which is being creative.

It made me understand
my overall game,

I have to come to the net, I have to try
to finish, I have to try to take chances.

And then as we evolve
and you become stronger,

I would get to balls
I didn't know I could get to

and then with my talent and my
hand-eye coordination and my technique,

I was able to pull off shots
I never thought I could.

And I feel like that
connected everything.

And I think this is when it got
really a lot of fun for me.

When Roger Federer was sixteen,

people were already
talking about him.

Game, set and match, Federer.

Two sets for love, 6-4, 6-4.

He won Wimbledon poise

and then turned pro the
next day in Switzerland.

In Switzerland we don't expect
people to win big tournaments.

So, at the time, especially not.

We like to be precise,

I generalize here, to the max,

and you're supposed to be humble.

So it's kind of interesting
also when he came along

and he basically said, you know, I
want to win... win big tournaments.

And he wasn't really
humble about it.

And one of the first big
matches he played was in Basel

against Andre Agassi.

And, you know,
he went out there to win,

which was almost
like what is he trying to do,

you're playing against Andre
Agassi and you are a junior,

you know,
you're supposed to lose here.

But he wasn't acting that way.

But then the losing hurt,
you know, it just really did.

I didn't like losing.

The number of times
we would go to tournaments

and he would throw in
a substandard performance

or he'd mentally break down and he'd
get emotional, he'd throw his rackets.

He was losing matches
he should have won.

I was too far ahead of myself.

I don't want to say cocky but I
think I probably thought I was better

than I maybe was sometimes, that
I could hit shots I saw on TV.

He was all flourishes and beautiful trick
shots but there was no identity to his game.

Roger was getting very
angry on the tennis court,

he was breaking racket or
whatever when he was young.

But he was always
respecting the opponent.

It was always against himself.
He was never being provocative.

He was never being unfair.
He was never cheating.

He went through times when he
was very, very hard on himself.

He is very, very self-critical.

It's difficult for an artist when
he has a desire to express himself,

and he knows how
to express himself,

but he can't actually express
himself the way he wants to.

And that's why at the
beginning of his career,

it may have taken a while,

because there were so many things
to put together in the puzzle.

I'm telling you,
people were rolling their eyes

when I kept bringing
him up in conversation.

When I reached the stage of my
career where I'm touring professional

and I just thought, well, honestly,
I feel uncomfortable doing this

in front of ten thousand people, I don't
like to do it when there's live TV watching,

and I don't know how many
thousands or millions are watching,

you know, in their living room, me
playing, throwing rackets and shouting

and what is the commentary saying
about me, I didn't like that.

And I said,
"I'll change from here on."

I think each generation
has their guy.

Borg certainly was the player
of his generation. Lendl.

I was probably the player
of my generation in the '90s.

I felt like I was going
to win that match.

I just felt pretty confident.

He was pretty young at the time

but Roger was very tough.

Oh, that's a great shot.

I was caught off guard.

He was serving huge, he was moving great,
he was returning my serve with ease

and just felt a little
bit overpowered.

Thank you.

He's done it! The champion is out!

It's tough out there. He definitely
is... He's got a great future.

I mean, he's already proven
that he's a great player

and that he's got a good
chance to maybe go all the way.

A new bat in tennis'
past to a new generation.

Federer can hardly believe it,
the emotion at the moment

of having beaten the greatest grass court
player of all time is too much for him.

Nineteen years of age and his first ever
appearance on the Centre Court of Wimbledon.

He has played a magnificent match
to defeat the seven times champion

in five extraordinary sets.

You have to find your
own identity and do it your way.

Only I believe when
Wimbledon rolled around in 2003,

I felt like I grew into my own.

I felt comfortable with the fighting
spirit, the positive and negative energy,

how to absorb and how to utilize
it in the best possible way.

Everything comes into play.

So, there's just a lot
of decision-making,

a lot of mistakes you
can do along the way,

but one thing you can't is you can't
do it perfect every single time.

So you have to learn to play with problems
and you have to learn how to play with pain.

One therefore has to
find this harmony.

That's why it's crucial for Roger,

that the man he is,
embodies the player he is.

That those two are one
and the same thing.

Everyone knew that Nadal
was a great fighter.

But with Federer, you know,
he's naturally a front-runner.

On grass especially he'd always for the
last few years had completely dominated.

He'd never had to come back
from behind in that way.

And so everyone knew that
Nadal would fight to the end.

But one wasn't quite sure how
Federer would react to adversity.

Hello.

This has turned around.

He loves to win.

He's Mr. Nice Guy but he wants to
beat you when he's on the court.

He wants to find the
solution to how to win.

Game Federer.

I believe that the rain delay
probably woke me up and I said,

well, if we're going to
go out of this match,

well, at least you're going to go down
swinging and really start to wake up.

You know if it does go to a tie break,
it will be the last roll of the dice

for Federer to see whether
he can stay in the match.

Game Nadal.

Six, game two, six. Tie break.

Neither player has lost a tie
breaker in this championship so far.

Federer's 103, he's played
Nadal's 104, he's played.

Something has to give.

You have to find a certain intensity, I
believe, that helps you through these moments.

That's part of showing your opponent
that you're really interested to win.

Well, there's no mistaking what the crowd
wants and it's no disrespect to Nadal.

But I think they quite
fancy some more tennis.

Thank you.

Federer certainly wanted
to play more tennis

and he still believed that
he could turn it around.

And it was amazing how he was
able to... to hang in there and...

and maintain the belief against the guy that
we all know has caused him a lot of problems.

This was someone trying to take
away his crown in his own backyard.

So, two sets to love down, you know, the
way Federer dug in was... was impressive.

Federer's serve is
much better than mine.

He has won many
games with his serve,

in under a minute
and a few seconds.

That doesn't happen to me...

so I need other virtues
that he doesn't have.

6-5, Federer.

Federer.

Federer game 2-6.

Well, that wasn't so much
of a cheer as an eruption.

We reached the tie
break of the third set,

Rafael lost.

Always, when we started,

I used to say to Rafael...

"Good face."

When he started to train I always
used to say, “Good face."

Why?

Because it's impossible to learn,

to improve or do anything right
when you don't have a good attitude.

When he has had situations
against other tennis players,

that have overwhelmed him,

well he has almost always been
able to turn things to his side.

And I think doubt or the
uncertainty of not being the best...

makes you try to do
it better in some way.

I've never considered myself good enough
to just go and train, and just train.

I've always gone training
with the desire of improving.

I believe he has no
reason not to be humble...

he has no reason to feel special.

He's special when he plays tennis
in New York or in Wimbledon,

where there are 20,000
people in the finals.

I don't think it is possible to stop being
humble because you perfectly hit a tennis ball.

I don't see the world as Rafa Nadal,
the tennis player or tennis star.

I see the world as a normal person.

My life here is completely normal,
like any of my friends.

The feeling of belonging
to Mallorca, an island,

a place where you
always feel comfortable

and where you always want to go back
because you think it is the place...

that gives you the energy to continue
with your professional career.

I think for Rafael this is the
place where he feels the tranquility

that he can't feel
in any other place.

When he comes here,
he feels supported by his friends,

he feels the way he did as a kid.

So Rafa, even though he's been
traveling since he was young,

he has always wanted to come back.

I believe he has never imagined
himself living anywhere but Mallorca.

Here I can see my friends
and my family every day

and that makes my relationship with my family
one of the most important things in my life.

He finds his own way to feel comfortable at
Wimbledon or Australian Open or French Open,

whatever it is, he creates a home,
you know, where it's not his own.

He doesn't try to recreate
what he's got in Mallorca,

that's impossible, but he
creates his own environment.

You know, he rents a place and
he's got his family there with him.

You can spend some
time with your family

if they come over and you can have
a positive and peaceful atmosphere.

Sometimes I cook,
sometimes someone else does.

I like cooking,
I have no issues with that.

Everything is programmed in order
to try to be as relaxed as possible

and try to be as focused
and concentrated as possible.

I can imagine that Nadal,
who is a great tennis fighter,

has always looked for the
challenge of solving problems.

And I think that with Roger,
it's the same thing.

Maybe they each have their philosophy
about how to solve the problem.

Roger always needs to
feel something positive,

he always needs to feel the opening up
of a possibility, a path, a solution.

Pierre is definitely
part of my mental game

even though I don't feel like I do
any mental work to... for tennis.

But our... let's say if we catch up
together and we... we're working out,

probably thirty percent of it is
talking, you know, about possibilities,

what could we change, what could
we do, what else can we improve.

"How's life at home, Roger?" And I'm
like, I'll talk to him about it, you know.

So I'm very open and honest.

I think Pierre knows a lot about me
more than most people in my life.

He's always been
himself and I think

that this has been his great
mental labor his entire life.

I noticed that already
when he was young,

He always tried to find a balance
between what he does and who he is.

His attention to detail into his training,
his... his practice, his injury prevention,

his schedule and...
and his matches is incredible.

And I think sometimes he doesn't get
the almost the credit he deserves

because he makes it look so easy.

He's a good phy... physique that doesn't
put too much stress on his joints.

He's a great mover.
He's well balanced.

So people think, well, that's it's
just natural, it's a God-given talent

and he does have enormous talent but
he works just as hard as anyone else

at...
at improving all those attributes.

If family and wife's not happy, then
my tennis is going to wobble, you know.

And then if this doesn't work out, the
fitness is not right, then everything...

it's like a Jenga block building,
you know,

and everything needs
to fall into place.

My wife, who I met back
in 2000 at the Olympics,

I mean she... she's been a rock,
you know, in my life, you know.

She's been there,
gave me consistency.

Is the guy... is the guy you
are with, is he very nice?

Yeah, he's very nice.

I think most important is that
you're authentic that you're yourself

and that's what Roger is.

Off the court I think it's very important
but also on the court, you know.

If you try to show things that
are not really inside of you,

then it... it doesn't work, the
whole puzzle doesn't work.

Roger looks for the perfect game. He
seeks harmony. He seeks creativity.

But we must not forget that
Roger is also ready to fight.

Roger is an artist who
knows how to fight,

whereas Nadal is a fighter who
knows how to be an artist as well.

It's similar to ballet.

We don't see the effort, but we know
that these people work very hard...

to express grace,
to express harmony.

I think that controlling time
is what leads you to success.

The greatest sportsmen of history,

have the mental capacity
to think faster, see faster

and make important decisions
faster than others.

Fantastic point.

Game Federer.

Six against oh,
fourth set, tie break.

He didn't really think that he was
going to give this championship away

after five years as the boss.

Both players will receive
one additional challenge.

Rafa! Roger!

Thank you.

Thank you. Quiet, please.

2-1, Nadal.

Nadal takes back the advantage.

As confident as we are, and we
need to have that confidence,

we also need to know the other
side that it's always dangerous.

Nadal is closing in on this
Wimbledon men's singles title.

You learn so much from the
sport from winning, from losing,

trying to figure out
and just being uncomfortable

and trying to fight through
those... those difficult moments.

That's wide.

That could be the crucial blow.

Uncle Toni can't
even watch anymore.

Five-two, Nadal.

He's coached this young man, his
nephew, since he was four years old.

I remember that...

Rafael was up 5 to
2 with two serves,

the match was almost won.

And he is two points away
from the championship

and he will serve
the next two points.

At that moment I
started to feel nervous.

When he missed his first serve,

I told Carlos Costa who was sitting
next to me, I said, "Double fault."

I didn't want to look.

Once I missed my first serve,

I had a feeling I
might double fault.

Fault!

Five-three, Nadal.

Federer is a champion.

He has that mentality in him

and started to see Nadal at the other end
just shaken a little and a little scared.

And Federer jumped on that.

Set point or match
point from here on in.

6-5, Federer.

Oh, he waited for it!

8-7, Nadal.

And that means championship point.

When I was serving
to win Wimbledon,

I thought...

“I'm gonna win Wimbledon”.

I remember to be on the
chair and do like phew!

Oh my goodness!

For Roger to hit a
shot at that moment

with that incredible pace off
the backhand was jaw-dropping.

That was the worst feeling
I’ve had on a tennis court.

I never think I'm going to win.
Instead, I just focus on the next point.

But that match was so important, I felt
that the ball was there and I'd win.

The two best passing
shots of the tournament

without doubt have just taken
place on the last two points.

It's eight all.

What's next?

Two championship
points gone for Nadal.

Sheer quality from both players.

Roger pulled out the fourth set tie
breaker and had saved a few match points

because that seemed like it took
it to this whole new level.

Haven't seen a tie break like
that since Borg-McEnroe 1980.

It was up there.

We really do have
the classic confrontation here,

the best server McEnroe
against the best returner,

and the most volatile player in
the world against the calmest.

On the court it was something
special to see John's face.

You knew that this is going to be a hell of a
fight, this is going to be a hell of a match.

And you have to
hand it to both men.

There hasn't been an inch
given by either of them.

They've both looked down the gun
barrel and they're both still alive.

I always get a hundred,
and I wanted to win.

That's it!

That was the most
memorable match in my career.

And to win for the fifth time in a row, to
beat John in the final, was something special.

Borg and McEnroe is something that
people are still talking about

nearly forty years on.
And... and that will continue.

So the number two player in the
word just watching and seeing,

waiting for the day when perhaps
he'll have this chance to do that.

I've spent the last twenty-five years
of my life trying to figure out a way

to remember the wins instead
of dwelling on my losses.

It goes for both Chris and I.

We would have both won a whole bunch
more if the other one wasn't around

but we wouldn't have been
as good a tennis player.

At the end of the tournament we were the
only ones in the locker room on Sunday.

One of us was a winner
and one of us was a loser.

One of us would always be
comforting the other one.

I saw her in her most
vulnerable moments.

I think that Martina and I got to a
point where it was like, you know,

okay, the match is over, this is
all about human compassion now.

You embrace the fact that maybe
this rivalry is bigger than you

and you're a part of
something wonderful.

They share something, these players,
I see it's when they retire,

having spent time on the
Champions Tour you see that

that they're... they're often
happiest in each other's company.

Certainly Borg and McEnroe Are.

Game set match!

He's won it! He's won it!

When I did win it, I felt like I could
fly for that couple of seconds or a minute

when it happened because
I felt like I finally earned it.

But, at the same time,
soon afterwards

my greatest rival quit.

'81 was my last year.

I just lost my
motivation for tennis.

And then the worst thing came that I
didn't care if I was winning or losing.

And that's not me.

He was retiring.

He told us a few months after the Open
when I played him in the '81 Open,

he said I'm retire... we thought
he was kidding, we laughed.

It felt like tennis was bigger than ever and
we were on the cover of Sports Illustrated

and people were talking
about it and we were...

it was happening, you know, and
I was like, "What are you doing?"

I mean this is crazy.

I couldn't believe that he
was even thinking about it.

I think it's too bad for the
game and it's too bad for me

because my best tennis
has been against him but...

I did over the course of the next couple of
years tried to talk him into coming back,

or I wanted him to come back
or when are you coming back.

I would have been happy for him to come
back and lose my number one ranking

because I think he was
that important to the game.

And he was that important to me.

And now,
for the second year in a row,

a five-set final between the
two best players in the world.

The way that mach unfolded,

I remember the producer saying
to me, "What can you see?

What can you tell us from the statistics
as we head into this fifth set

that will determine the
Wimbledon champion?"

And I remember thinking stats right
now just feel utterly irrelevant.

Oh!

These guys were doing their thing
at a level we hadn't seen before.

I think I felt like I owe it to the players,
not to sort of be a loud-mouth and sort of say,

"Oh, this is what they should do now in
the fifth." That's a bunch of baloney.

That's it. This is emotional,
this is like heart and will.

Game Federer.

Now for the first time in three
hours and thirty-seven minutes

Roger is in the lead.

It's something where
you have to say,

let's just watch this and enjoy something
because this doesn't come along very often.

Game Federer.

That's the first time we've seen Rafa
Nadal shake his head this entire tournament

and why not, two match points
and the fourth set tie breaker.

Ah, it's brilliantly played!

Two spots of rain here on
Centre Court, I'm afraid.

Getting a little heavier.

The play is stopping
and that is too bad.

Three hours and fifty-six minutes,
a first-class drama on Centre Court.

The match was stopped
at 2-2 in the fifth set,

I thought the match was lost.

That Federer had a
better chance of victory.

Rafa had lost twice
before to Federer.

He had had a chance to win,

and it had vanished
in front of him.

I went to the locker room,

because I thought I was
going to find Rafael with very...

very low hopes.

I thought, "What can I tell
Rafael to motivate him,

to raise his spirits?"

I don't know what Toni meant
to tell me at the moment,

but...

I was prepared to take on the challenge
and deal with adversity at every moment.

And that's what I told Toni,
that I wouldn't fail.

Federer could win,

but I wasn't going to lose.

If he wins, so be it,

but I won't lose.

And those clouds are clearing off,
those ones on the right.

We are so very different
in how we approach things.

Yet, if you scratch only the surface, you
realize that we're probably quite similar.

Constantly thinking, thinking, thinking what
could be my next play, it's like a chess game,

you know,
like there's always a next move.

Wondrous forehand!

Game Federer.

Federer leads six games to five.

Final set.

I do admire Federer's style

and those who don't

either they don't
know about tennis...

even if you're someone else's fan,

you need to be able to
recognize excellence

and Federer is excellent
in every sense.

Game Nadal.

Six games all. Final set.

There is no tie break in the fifth,
a deciding set at Wimbledon.

So we go on.

It has to be two-game advantage.

Game Federer.

And Nadal will come out to serve
again to stay in the match.

Seven games all. Final set.

Imagine being two sets to love up
against a guy you've never beaten

in the Wimbledon final before and
then he starts to come back at you

and he's starting to show everybody how
he's won all of these Wimbledon titles.

How Nadal held it together after
that, I don't think I'll ever know.

Advantage Nadal.

Here is another breakpoint,
the fourth of the game.

Game Nadal.

Nadal leads by eight
games to seven, final set.

The tennis was...
was incredibly good.

The only concern is
maybe the darkness.

The court was almost being
lit by flashbulbs at the end.

It was painfully dark.

Stopping a match for darkness
is up to the referee.

But because they are
not reacting to it,

okay let's keep playing until a point
where it's... it's getting too dark.

There's been occasions where major events such
as Wimbledon have gone on to the next day.

This had just been too good to say,

"Wait a second, we're going to stop and come
back and play, perhaps, one game the next day."

Let's try to finish it.

Let's...
let's try to have a winner tonight.

The five-time defending champion is
at the mercy of Rafael Nadal here.

Ah! Well, no wonder people stand.

Three match points Nadal has had,
three times he's been on the break

and three times
Federer has said no.

Advantage Nadal.

There is a new
man at the head of men's tennis,

Rafael Nadal.

Six-seven.

Nine-seven.

Runner-up, Roger Federer!

And the Wimbledon gentlemen's
singles champion for 2008,

Rafael Nadal!

And the fact that you
beat Roger here on Centre Court

in arguably one of the greatest
finals we have ever seen,

does that make this
even more special?

Well...

For sure.

You know, when Roger,
he after five years...

I lost the last two finals, close
finals, but he is still the number one.

He's still the best.

He's still five-time
champions here.

And right now I have one.

So, for me it's very,
very, very important.

And now having shared
this contest together,

they now share the
limelight and rightly so.

There's two champions there.

No six in a row for Roger Federer,

but the first French Open,
Wimbledon Doubles since Bjorn Borg.

We'll be talking
about that match for decades.

I think I'm going to say
another fifty years of matches.

And I'd be surprised
if it's better.

First of all, can I just say
thank you as a tennis player

that you allowed us to be part
of this amazing spectacle.

I mean is that...
is that any consolation?

A little bit.

Thanks, John. It's tough,
it's tough, it hurts.

In the moment itself,

you know, I was like, "Oh my God,
this is the worst day of my life."

It was really... was like a maybe three,
four, five, six, seven weeks after the match

that I really started to feel
the magnitude of the match.

These two haven't played
each other since Wimbledon,

so this is a treat for
us and I'm loving it.

Compared to the way things were for
years, history was now being rewritten.

Nadal has done it!

I had to embrace
the idea of a rival.

In the beginning I
didn't want to have one.

Maybe I'll try later again,
I don't know.

God, it's killing me.

And then, eventually, I realized there's
something good to take out of these situations.

So I maybe have to adjust
my game a little bit.

I don't like to do that per se,
but why not? Let's go.

This one title that
he has not yet won,

he's the guy who's
got to prove himself.

As much as you just
only want to win,

you also want to become the best player
you can be in... in your lifetime.

I can't help but think that from
the island of Mallorca right now,

Rafael Nadal feels good for Roger.

Rafael Nadal!

The circuit evolves,
the players evolve,

If you want to keep
the same position,

you have to improve and evolve from
the player you were 8 or 10 years ago.

Federer's fifteenth
Grand Slam championship.

That breaks the tie
with Pete Sampras.

I don't know if Roger would still be
around if Rafael hadn't been born.

It's hard to stay motivated,
and they kind of pulled each other.

They are always forced to reach
their limit, to go a bit further,

but it's not about becoming
better just to win,

but becoming better
as a matter of life.

What makes it stand out
from any other rivalry,

they're both exceptional people.

They both have such a
respect for each other.

They both are very humble.

One can win...

or one can lose.

This year's runner-up,
Roger Federer.

Nadal is the king of Rolad Garros.

That's part of our lives.

We need to know how to live
with both, defeat and victory.

These two guys at their age with
all that they've accomplished,

with a chance to play
each other again.

Especially as you get older,

you start to feel like how many more
opportunities am I going to have to do this.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the 2017 champion of the
Australian Open, Roger Federer.

Thank you, guys.

You stand there on the podium,
there's a standing ovation going on,

everybody's listening,
you could hear a pin drop.

I don't think we both either one of us
believed that we're going to be in the finals

of Australia when
we saw each other.

And here we stand in the finals.

I remember also how I felt in 2008 and
he must have felt the same in 2017.

What... what can you say? You know.

Tennis is a... tennis is a tough
sport. There's no... no draws.

But if there was going to be one, I would
be very happy to accept the draw tonight

and share it with Rafa really.

I learned a lot from those matches and you...
you feel like almost you... you grow up,

you know, and you have more experience
in life because of these matches.

You start respecting
each other more and more

because in those moments it's
so personal, it's so intense.

I mean, there's no question that these
two guys made each other better players.

The quality is better
than it's ever been.

What a treat.

What a treat to have two of the greatest
of all time playing at the same time,

you know, it's just...

we're so lucky.