The battle between world No.1 Roger Federer and world No.2 Rafael Nadal in the recent Rolland Garos last for more than 3 hours. Federer, with the record of 1 win-4 lose against Nadal won the first set with an amazing margin of 6-1 that shocked everyone else, including me. I am so overly excited and my mind went "oh Yes! Federer is going to thrash Nadal this time, and become the 6th person in the world to win all major grandslam"
But from the second set onwards, we saw Nadal went all out to fought for victory, while most of Federer's shot looked more like fighting for survival. Nadal won the 2nd set 6-1, 3rd set 6-4 and the gameset 7-6 (7-4).
Federer is undoubtly a more skillful player than Nadal (probably everyone else in the era), whenever he played creatively, he produced some amazing shots. But too bad, he was more like playing safe on that day and got into a lot of unforced errors, whereas Nadal was producing steady returns, and fought like a warrior.
Next year, I hope Federe will win the Rolland Garros (The only grandslam he missed). As for Nadal, hopefully he could win something other than just clay.
The lesson I got: Play Creatively, And Play To Win
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