MR RAFAEL NADAL vs MR ROGER FEDERER
6 July 2008. On a typical grey English summer’s day, the Centre Court at Wimbledon was packed to the rafters in anticipation of what would turn out to be one of the most nail-biting championship finals in tennis history. For the players, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, there was so much to lose and even more to gain: A win for Nadal would mean being the first since Björn Borg in 1980 to win both the French Open and the Wimbledon Championship back to back; a win for Federer would make him the first man to win six consecutive Wimbledon men’s singles titles.
Nadal, who had been defeated by Federer in the previous two Wimbledon finals, got off to an incredible start, taking the first two sets before summer rain interrupted the third. But when the skies cleared, and play resumed, the weather seemed to refuel the Swiss. Taking the third set on a tie breaker, and repeating the tactic in the fourth, Federer made it evens with Nadal at two sets a piece. Everything rested on the fifth set, the most tense and dramatic anyone had ever seen. Finally breaking serve and nailing the set 9-7, it was the Mallorcan Nadal who finally came up trumps, breaking Federer’s 5 year winning streak and catapulting both himself, and the match into tennis history – for at four hours and 48 minutes, it had been the longest Wimbledon final ever played.
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