Spain's Rafael Nadal hugs Switzerland's Roger Federer after winning the men's singles semi-final match at The Roland Garros 2019 French Open tennis tournament in Paris."Have you heard?" a colleague asked me sometime in the middle of last year."Federer and Nadal are playing in Cape Town."
Fortunately, sanity prevailed and organisers The Match In Africa announced that tickets would be available from R150 for the plebs. And then things really got out of hand. Within 10 minutes, all tickets were sold out online. But let's talk about the actual match that's taking place on February 7 . Yes, it's a friendly. So it won't really count. But tell that to Rafa and Roger's egos. All tennis players hate to lose. Anywhere. The difference between good tennis players and great tennis players is that great tennis players also hate to lose, but they honesty don't believe that they should.
The overall head-to-head is 24-16 to Nadal. What's fascinating to tennis aficionados, though, is the more subtle nuances and shifts of momentum in the rivalry. Nadal has always dominated on clay and leads 14-2. Federer has had the edge on grass and leads 3-1. Federer is slightly ahead on hard courts and leads 11-9.
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