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So,
no risk of rain today.
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Just a glorious English
summer's afternoon.
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Welcome to the start
of Wimbledon 2008.
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As is tradition, of course,
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the defending men's champion
will play the first match
on the center court.
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Roger Federer beginning
his campaign for a six
successive Wimbledon title.
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I fell in love
with Wimbledon because
of its tradition, its history
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that you just feel
very honored and privileged
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to be playing on such
a perfectly laid grass court.
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You know that somebody has been
going around with the scissors
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and making sure that every
blade of the grass is perfect.
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A super
performance from
the defending champion.
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Rafael Nadal, clearly,
he is a better player
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than he was even a year ago
when he pushed Roger
Federer in the final.
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Well played,
Roger Federer.
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I knew I had played a good tournament
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and was close to winning.
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But it was tough at the time,
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because I didn't know if I would ever have
another chance to win Wimbledon.
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First point
for the man from Mallorca.
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- Just two
breaks in the match.
- 6-4.
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But it's a three sets
win for Rafael Nadal.
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He is on his way
for Wimbledon 2008.
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Roger's the greatest balletic
mover that tennis has ever seen.
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One of the
greatest ball strikers,
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you know, phenomenal,
you know, beyond belief.
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Game Federer.
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The defending champion,
yet, to drop a set.
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And Federer.
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Federer
simply in a different
world at the moment.
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And it's not a world with
too many players inhabit.
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Give him a chance, Roger!
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He's been in the
zone for the last five years
here at the all-in club.
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Oh!
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A rampant Rafael
Nadal in superb form.
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Rafa has got that intensity
and energy that's so
debilitating to opponents.
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So intimidating that it
tires you out mentally.
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Rafael Nadal
through to the quarter finals.
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Unbelievable shot.
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Too strong.
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Absolutely relentless.
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No doubt that there's been
some surprises, you know,
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especially Andy and Novak losing
and when you see this draw
sort of being narrowed down
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and you see that Rafael
is the big favorite, you know,
on the other section,
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and I'm a big
favorite in my section,
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obviously, you start thinking
more about the, you
know, a possible final.
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Game set...
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It will be
six finals in a row
for Roger Federer.
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It will
be the dream final.
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-Federer against Nadal.
- Three
sets to love.
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I've seen a lot
of tennis matches
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and I've commentated
a lot and watched a
lot and played a lot.
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If you add everything together,
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there's no question
into my mind overall
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the 2008 match
between Rafa and Roger
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was the greatest
tennis match ever.
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I'm well prepared.
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I've had a good championship
so far, you know,
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and I always think Rafa
as the-- as the test, sort
of what I was hoping for.
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I mean Rafa is a
great competitor.
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And every time I'm going
to play him, I want to try
to beat him, you know.
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Federer says
I know how to play Rafa,
I know what I have to do.
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Do you know what you have
to do to beat Roger
Federer on grass?
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No. No.
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I'll only try my best,
you know, go on court,
try to play my best tennis,
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try to put my rhythm,
the intensity and
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later if he plays better
than me and he beats me,
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just congratulate him
like-- like every year.
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Wimbledon is that distant
magical place that you--
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across the ocean that had this
aura about it and this beauty.
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There's a magic to
Wimbledon that players feel.
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It is a combination
of where you're playing,
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who you're playing
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and the quality of tennis.
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You know, the tension
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and the excitement,
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everything is just so close to
the forefront of your emotions.
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The match I played with
Borg in '80 was often talked
about as one of the greatest,
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if not the best match
that people had seen.
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And once
that great tension
in the men's final.
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A tie break in the fourth set.
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I think we brought out the
best from each other.
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We gave always
a hundred percent.
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I had this
tailor-made like super start.
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I like to think I made him a
better player but he certainly
made me a better player.
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Oh!
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I knew that I had to bring out
my A-game every time I stepped
on the court with Martina.
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Yes.
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When I played Chris,
you know, it's this mind games
you play against each other
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when you know
each other that well.
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Especially when you do
have contrasting styles.
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And Nadal and Federer
embody that.
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The key to a great rivalry is
contrast, and you couldn't
have more polar opposites.
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Roger, when he's
walking on the Centre Court at
Wimbledon looks, so relaxed,
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just embraces the environment
and does it in a way that
doesn't use extra energy.
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Rafa is someone with high
energy, high intensity.
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Look, we've seen what he does
with the bottles on the court,
likes things in a certain order,
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wants a lot of stuff
done certain ways.
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I remember seeing Nadal
in his sleeveless shirt,
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bulging biceps.
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And then right next to him he'd
got what looked like a prince.
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Not a hair out of place.
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I like that lefty-righty,
the way they dress,
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the way they act,
their temperaments,
their personalities.
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Rafa, you know,
he's the swashbuckler.
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But, you know, he's more
emotional and he wears his
emotions more on sleeves.
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You can sort of see
what he's feeling more.
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And Roger's, you know,
sort of the ever the classy,
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you know, almost perfect
guy like Borg was.
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So, Federer,
twenty-six-year-old,
maestro from Switzerland.
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Number one in the world
since February 2004.
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He's going for title
number six.
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It was something not even
the great Swede Bjorn
Borg could achieve.
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It's hard enough
to feel the pressure of having
to win a tournament.
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But when you're going
for six in a row,
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I did the six in a row,
you know you'll never ever
have the chance again, never.
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So the pressure
is exponentially greater.
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Everybody talked about this
match and I was the umpire,
the spectator of this beauty.
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Here comes Roger.
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The tennis I was able to watch,
the-- the players we had,
tournament it was.
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I believe as well, you know,
I'm sorry I don't want
to feel like a big head,
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but I believe that
officiating was great as well.
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Roger Federer...
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Oh-fifteen.
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It's just
fantastic, isn't it?
Straight out of the blocks.
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Both players look like they
are timing the ball well,
constructing the rallies well.
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In tennis, you have
to put your opponent away.
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We have to always win
the last point to get
over the finish line.
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Each point I play and every ball I hit has the intention,
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of harassing the opponent.
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Finding a way for that shot to win me the point.
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A
break-up serve, it is.
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First bluff to the Spaniard
in his attempt to win
Wimbledon for the first time.
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Nadal leads
two game to one.
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I do believe that as a tennis
player it's-- it's constant
problem solving
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and trying for solutions
and trying out things.
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On the surface, if you're just
watching as a spectator,
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you might just look, oh,
these guys' play so good.
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But all the little decisions
we have to take in every
point, in every game,
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in every match and every
tournament, there are so
many of them.
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The biggest
difference between any
other sport and tennis
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is that you have nobody
else to talk to.
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You have a coach but
he can't talk to them.
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You have to problem-solve
by yourself.
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Most
fundamentally, Federer
is a sporting aristocrat.
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He embodies virtues such
as effortlessness, pure
skill, talent, artistry.
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These are reflected both
in his person, in the way
he carries himself
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and more fundamentally
in the way he plays tennis.
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Nadal stands for effort and
its associated qualities--
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endurance, muscle power,
fortitude, stamina.
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And those fundamental
differences which are
there all the time
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when they play each other,
they really come to a head.
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I think that's probably
the biggest difference how
they both feel the game.
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Roger with a lot more
flexibility on-- on what he does
because of his God-given talent.
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And Rafa with his tenacity
and his will to win.
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The opponent serves and then you need to return.
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So you have to go from something
that is very explosive, very athletic,
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to something calm, with a lot of feeling,
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with anticipation and harmony.
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And to combine these two opposites
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results in a good game.
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A loss at set point.
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This is top tennis now.
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Tennis is
a very cerebral game.
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You have to be able to deal
with the ups and downs.
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An advantage for Federer.
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We are back to this game.
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The point is
you have to know yourself.
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Oh.
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That's a real body blow.
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Advantage Nadal.
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Game for a set.
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Nadal.
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Sixth game to four.
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I believe doubts are good
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because they keep you alert at all times,
regardless of your opponent.
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Never considering myself good enough
and always having that doubt
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Constantly pushes me to improve.
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I think he played way better than me.
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I wasn't able to do anything.
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I didn't play as well as the other days,
like I wanted to play,
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but, whatever.
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I'm a big believer
that behind every champion
there is a force,
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there is a father, there is a
mother, there is a grandmother,
there is a coach,
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there is somebody
that actually is a force
behind this individual.
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Rafael began to train as a kid, every day.
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Every day, every single day of his life,
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as if it was a tennis tournament.
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As if he was playing a final.
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I always thought that to make it to the top...
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would be hard,
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and that we would have to face many kinds of problems.
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That's why I always tried to foster in Rafael a tough personality,
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to be able to withstand such difficulties.
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My ambition would be to get to the highest level.
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But for the moment, I'm here, I'm 112 in the world,
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and there's still a long way.
You have to keep trying, improving, everything.
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It's not easy at all.
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Well in that time he wasn't the Nadal that we all know now.
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I was practicing with him very frequently in Mallorca,
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so we knew each other very well.
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During that time I won a Grand Slam,
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I was number one in the world.
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I remember that in practice I almost always beat him,
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but once you began to play with him on the court,
he turned into a machine.
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The first time we played an official tournament was in Hamburg.
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I started playing professionally when I was very young, 16,
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so I was not as strong as the other players.
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Because the ball came to him a bit faster,
he hit it a bit late...
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and he began to lift his arm more than he was supposed to.
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And he realized that was also helping him win.
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He's able to play a type of tennis
that hadn't been seen before.
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Making it so quickly to the professional circuit,
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made me find solutions to be competitive
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and that's the truth.
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A sixteen-year-old
has just put up one
of the world's best players.
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But it's clear that he had a killer instinct inside the court,
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an ambition that I could only wish I had half of.
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The tournament you'd most like to win?
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Wimbledon.
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This was Federer's house.
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This is where
he was unbeatable.
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Nobody beat this guy.
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And Nadal was trying to bring
his clay-court game,
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his baseline game, to bear
on the grass at Wimbledon.
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Fifteen-Oh.
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We talk about
the intensity of Rafael Nadal
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and we don't talk about
that with-- with Roger.
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He's so relaxed, so this
and that, yeah, yeah.
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But when the ball is hit,
the intensity level
is exactly the same.
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Federer
definitely looking like
he's finding that rhythm,
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that groove on his serve, which
we've seen, which has been ever
present this tournament.
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Okay, boys,
good luck to you both.
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There's a difference
between a brilliant tennis
player and a champion.
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And many brilliant tennis
players don't become champions.
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And until you taste victory
at the very highest level,
you don't know how to do it.
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Game,
set match, Federer.
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You always dream about it.
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You go and play with
your friends when you're ten
years old and you-- you go on--
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on the lawn in the backyard
and you play Wimbledon there.
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And finally, after
years of underachievement,
Federer wins Wimbledon.
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Now I'm--
I'm much more relaxed
going into Grand Slams
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just because I don't have
to prove it like I used to.
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Game, set
match, Federer.
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And Roger Federer
has confirmed his ranking as the
number one player in the world
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in emphatic fashion.
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I think when Roger
arrived on tour, he put the
tennis to another level.
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To him, Wimbledon is
the most important tournament,
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it's always the tournament
he wants to win.
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Federer just kept on
beating everybody.
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I think he really has
a passion for the game.
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Otherwise he would
never have gone this far.
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Federer's game is very
much dialogue with tennis' past.
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You see some of Borg's
smoothness around the court,
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you see the explosive
side of Sampras,
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you see a bit of Laver.
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He took elements
of the old style.
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And on top of that, he
superimposed a very powerful
topspin baseline game.
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When something looks easy, it does not mean that it's easy.
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It means that Roger is able to do something very difficult.
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Yes!
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He's a lot more complex than the majority of players,
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much more creative.
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Actually
when I was young,
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I never thought I
could play tennis the way
I'm playing it right now.
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I always knew there was
some hidden talent in me
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with my strokes and
with my style of play,
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but that I could actually
explore it as much as I did now.
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It's for me also a big surprise.
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Roger Federer
is the greatest all-around
talent I've ever seen.
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So he's up among, you know,
the greatest of all time.
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Let's be honest, Borg won five
in a row, okay, five in a row,
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and that's along
with six French's.
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So that's why you have to put
him up there in the highest
echelons of the sport.
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If he stays up at this level,
he's going to have at least
a couple more Wimbledon,
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he's going to win at least
another Open or so,
an Australian,
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and he's going to challenge
for the French.
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I mean without a doubt
this guy's got by far and
away the best chance to--
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to win the French Open.
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Then Nadal came along
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and put a pressure on him
that he's just-- he's
never had before.
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Roger Federer coming
out for what is undoubtedly
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the most significant match
in his entire career to date.
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For the first time he is
playing in the final of the
French Open at Roland Garros.
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At the moment Roger
Federer is in a long list
of great champions
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who've never won
at Roland Garros.
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McEnroe, Connors, Sampras,
of course, Edberg, Becker.
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They could never
master the red clay.
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Rafael Nadal, 2005,
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who came here and became the
first man since Mats Wilander
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to win the title on his
first appearance.
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He's looking today
for his sixtieth successive
victory on clay courts.
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Rafa is born
to compete against Roger.
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First, Rafa is lefty.
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He's right in life but he's
lefty on the tennis court.
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You don't have many lefty
in the top hundred, so you--
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you don't practice much with
lefty and you don't play much
against lefties on the tour.
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So it's something
you have to adapt.
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And with Rafa playing
the huge topspin in which
the ball bounce very high,
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it's very tough on
the one hand backhand
to play over the shoulder.
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So it was always
a challenge for Roger.
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I think Nadal was
probably the first one
to ask him questions
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that he was unable to answer.
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Nadal owns
this place and he's such
a tough competitor.
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Roger, for a few years he didn't
have anyone really contesting
him and he won so easily.
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For like three years, I mean,
he was just no-- no disrespect
to Philippoussis and Roddick
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but they weren't,
you know, Nadal.
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And so I felt like he's--
he's been challenged here.
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I think Nadal
was necessary.
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People saying Federer
is unbeatable, he's got
no weaknesses.
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And then Nadal came along
with this very particular game.
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In-- in some larger sense
you can only say that the
gods of tennis sat around
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and thought the game
is becoming unbalanced
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and, in a sense, he was
put on earth purely for the
purpose of defeating Federer.
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He's a fighter and
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he's a grinder and he
deserves it to win here I think.
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- Well, you
deserve to win too, Roger.
-Thank you.
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We'll see at Wimbledon.
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New ball, three.
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These two, it's a
fantastic rivalry and-- and we
sit here watching today's match
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and-- and I don't think
anyone really knows
which way it's going to go.
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We are living our match,
you know,
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obviously the-- the
players making history,
not the officials.
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We-- we're part of the--
of the game, we're part
of the match, but we are,
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there is two plus one.
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Real
atmosphere bubbling up in here.
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Game Nadal.
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Game Nadal.
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Yeah, it's pepped enough.
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And Nadal is very
much back in this set.
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I think I'm the kind of person that
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always gives it my all.
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Competition is about winning.
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What have
you got to do to win a point
against Rafael Nadal?
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Rafa is the greatest
fighter I've ever seen
on the tennis court.
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And I played
Connors thirty times.
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I know what it's like to play
guys that seem like every point
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is the last point they're ever
going to play and that's--
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it's inspiring but it's--
it's-- it's also intimidating.
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Disappointment
for the Federer camp.
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Advantage Nadal.
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Amazement
from the crowd.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
as a courtesy to the players,
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remind to be quiet
during the balls.
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Game Nadal.
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He has forced his way
back into this set
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and will serve
for a two-set lead.
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Nadal leads
five game to four.
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Second set.
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Is the great
man running out of ideas?
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He's certainly
got to make something
happen pretty soon.
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He's
certainly running out
of time, it would appear.
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And it's set point for a two
set lead to the Spaniard.
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Two sets it is to Rafael
Nadal, the five-time
defending champion.
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Well, he's got
a mountain to climb now.
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Nadal leads
by two sets to oh.
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The first two sets when I look
back at that finals, you know,
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it's like I played them
but maybe I was a bit--
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how do you--
how do you say it?
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I'm not sure if I really
believed that I was
going to win the match.
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My problem was that
I had lost in the French
Open finals a month earlier
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against Rafa in a terrible way.
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Rafael, I think he had a great year in clay courts
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so we went to Roland Garros,
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and I believe Rafael played his best tournament.
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Rafael Nadal had
been trying to reel in
Roger Federer for years.
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This guy just
plays so hard every point.
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And then finally he
absolutely thrashed Federer in a
way that he'd never done before.
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A rare vision.
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Roger Federer without that
confidence, without the
champion's body language.
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That was
destructive tennis.
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Federer looked like
an old man that day.
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Right now he's
embarrassed to be out there.
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He just doesn't know what to do.
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Game, set and match, Nadal.
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6-1, 6-3, 6-0
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I think he was affected
by this loss in-- in Paris.
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You maybe try to forget
or you try to put it in the--
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in the background that
you lost that badly.
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I wish it was
a different outcome.
I wish I could have--
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Look, it doesn't matter to--
now what happened, you know,
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I mean the match is over,
clay court season is over.
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If you see
Nadal the way he plays,
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it was like I remember
first seeing him, I'm like
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this guy's going to be
one of the greatest clay
court players at--
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of all time, that's a given.
But I don't know if that's
going to translate on grass.
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2006 and then 2007
Rafa was knocking on the door.
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And it was a time where
he was the king of clay,
I was the king of grass.
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All of the tennis world
would be watching.
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Wimbledon is a very special tournament,
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Personally, I always dreamt of playing on grass,
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because it's pretty much the only tournament
where that can be done.
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Federer has
never been challenged like
this in a Wimbledon final.
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He's never gone the distance,
he's never gone to five sets,
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he's never been two
sets to one down.
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That-- that point you say,
okay, no, no, Rafa can
maybe win Wimbledon
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and he's going to be
in-- in Rogers' head.
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Second
championship point.
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It's five in a row.
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Fantastic.
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It was 2007.
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I felt bad in the sense that...
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I wasn't able to overcome the adversities
in such an important moment.
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That hurt.
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00:38:13,491 --> 00:38:15,758
Is there
a way back in for Federer?
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There's no
doubt. He has the ability,
but right now down two sets.
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Does even he have the belief,
and that's what we're going
to have to find out.
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00:38:23,067 --> 00:38:25,902
It's going to be very hard for
him to turn it around right now.
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00:38:29,374 --> 00:38:31,808
What if Nadal
beats him on grass?
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Well, if he beats him on grass
everything changes.
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Everything.
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The-- the landscape
would shift completely.
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30-40.
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I think Roger
was feeling that Rafa was
getting better on the grass.
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Every year
he got a little closer.
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It was before that
I think Roger was feeling
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that he can play just average
tennis and he'll still win.
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00:39:08,413 --> 00:39:12,682
But as Rafa was getting better
and better he knew he had
to raise his level and he--
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I think he was feeling
the pressure that way.
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Oh, he's got him again.
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I remember
the clouds started to darken,
the wind picked up
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and it was like Federer's mood
was actually changing
as the weather changed.
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00:39:25,463 --> 00:39:27,897
His mood was
probably darkening.
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So disgusted with
himself Nadal still resists.
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It's amazing
as well when you sort of see the
way how this match has unfolded
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and you just sort of feel like--
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00:39:38,176 --> 00:39:38,908
Today's the day for Nadal.
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00:39:38,944 --> 00:39:40,410
Today'sthe day.
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00:39:55,993 --> 00:39:57,526
As the match evolved,
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you sort of sensed something
special was happening
because Nadal was winning.
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Federer was the favorite.
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He'd been the king of Wimbledon
and won plenty of times already.
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But Nadal hadn't.
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And it looked like this was
going to be his opportunity. So
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that created an enormous
amount of excitement.
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But you just felt it was
never going to be plain
sailing, you knew that
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Federer was going to
have an opportunity
at some stage.
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00:40:32,096 --> 00:40:33,163
The players are going off.
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00:40:34,065 --> 00:40:36,098
Line judges off, everybody off.
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The umpire will stay up
there probably and
be pushed off the court.
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There he goes, bye-bye.
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00:40:49,146 --> 00:40:54,851
You always think
when a break is taken that it
favors the man who's losing.
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Federer certainly
is losing at the moment.
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This championship, well,
it's hanging by a thread.
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00:41:02,827 --> 00:41:05,895
I try to go back to the locker
room as quick as I could
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because you don't know
how long the rain delay
is actually going to take.
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00:41:10,535 --> 00:41:14,838
People sometimes cannot
believe that all the players
are in the same locker room.
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00:41:15,740 --> 00:41:19,175
It's a very important
moment because
there you can resettle again,
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you can talk to your team,
you can calm down again a
little bit if you're panicking.
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00:41:25,917 --> 00:41:30,787
We saw Mirka quickly outside
of the locker room, which
is very important, you know.
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She's also very positive,
always believes
that Roger can win
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and-- and that
helps him a lot.
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I think the emotional
part about me about playing
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really could be because
I seeked perfection maybe
way too early in my life.
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I thought I could play these
perfect tennis shots backhand,
456
00:41:53,344 --> 00:41:56,846
forehands, drop shots,
you name it, smashes.
457
00:41:56,881 --> 00:42:00,183
And I think I probably thought
I could hit shots I saw on TV.
458
00:42:01,218 --> 00:42:03,553
The players I used to admire,
459
00:42:06,724 --> 00:42:07,590
Boris Becker,
460
00:42:10,194 --> 00:42:11,561
Stefan Edberg,
461
00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:14,197
Pete Sampras.
462
00:42:15,933 --> 00:42:18,167
They were the Wimbledon
champions at the time.
463
00:42:18,202 --> 00:42:21,170
They were maybe
the number one in the world.
464
00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:25,074
So I think that inspired me
to play the way I played then.
465
00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:29,712
Very often I would come in
and go like, okay, confident,
happy and everything
466
00:42:29,747 --> 00:42:33,282
and then and I'd be like, bang,
hitting a wall and realizing,
well, it's not possible yet,
467
00:42:33,317 --> 00:42:35,585
you're not strong enough,
you're not big enough yet.
468
00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:37,320
I don't know,
you don't get it yet.
469
00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:43,126
Roger always
had a certain expectation of the
standard he wanted to play.
470
00:42:45,630 --> 00:42:51,134
When it didn't go his way,
that's-- that's actually the
point when he got so annoyed.
471
00:42:52,837 --> 00:42:54,570
So you can imagine
my parents didn't enjoy it
472
00:42:54,606 --> 00:43:00,910
when I was behaving like a brat
on the court, throwing rackets
and shouting and screaming
473
00:43:00,945 --> 00:43:04,747
and crying and playing
again and fighting.
And it was just too emotional.
474
00:43:04,782 --> 00:43:08,217
It was just too crazy for them.
So they would be very
disappointed in my behavior.
475
00:43:10,221 --> 00:43:15,791
We sometimes, we felt really
ashamed and we really took him
many times aside and said,
476
00:43:15,826 --> 00:43:18,060
Roger, I mean, I'm not going
along with you anymore,
477
00:43:18,095 --> 00:43:23,699
I'm not playing the fool
next to the court while
you perform like this.
478
00:43:23,734 --> 00:43:26,902
I used to tell him, you know,
your bad behavior is like
sending an invitation
479
00:43:26,937 --> 00:43:31,107
to your opponent and saying,
here I am, beat me,
I'm really to beat today.
480
00:43:31,142 --> 00:43:32,742
So, go ahead.
481
00:43:32,777 --> 00:43:35,978
And I liked to also
get rid of my frustration.
482
00:43:36,013 --> 00:43:39,115
And I thought also it might
have helped that John McEnroe
or Goran Ivanisevic
483
00:43:39,150 --> 00:43:40,917
to play better in the process.
484
00:43:46,957 --> 00:43:50,726
Coaches told me it's not good
for me that in the process
I won't be playing better,
485
00:43:50,761 --> 00:43:55,431
I will be-- usually be playing
worse because it's a negative
energy that comes through.
486
00:43:56,801 --> 00:44:00,302
You could see he had
talent but the coaches had
to push him quite a bit
487
00:44:00,337 --> 00:44:04,007
a lot of time and he was--
he was testing the limits.
488
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,120
Yes, so he was very young.
He was the youngest of all the players we had at the time.
489
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,080
There were still a lot of moments
where he had difficulties concentrating.
490
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,280
He had so much in him already,
but he could not express everything yet.
491
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,560
He quickly realized that working on his physical fitness,
492
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,520
would help him to do what he enjoys most, playing.
493
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,960
And to express even better what he can do so well,
494
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,320
which is being creative.
495
00:44:33,204 --> 00:44:36,138
It made me
understand my overall game,
496
00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:40,509
I have to come to the net,
I have to try to finish, I have
to try to take chances.
497
00:44:40,544 --> 00:44:42,912
And then as we evolve
and you become stronger,
498
00:44:42,947 --> 00:44:45,214
I would get to balls
I didn't know I could get to
499
00:44:45,249 --> 00:44:48,951
and then with my talent
and my hand-eye coordination
and my technique,
500
00:44:48,986 --> 00:44:51,254
I was able to pull off shots
I never thought I could.
501
00:44:53,758 --> 00:44:57,193
And I feel like that
connected everything.
502
00:44:58,763 --> 00:45:02,098
And I think this is when it got
really a lot of fun for me.
503
00:45:11,041 --> 00:45:14,176
When Roger
Federer was sixteen,
504
00:45:14,211 --> 00:45:16,012
people were already
talking about him.
505
00:45:17,348 --> 00:45:19,815
Game, set
and match, Federer.
506
00:45:19,850 --> 00:45:22,318
Two sets for love, 6-4, 6-4.
507
00:45:22,353 --> 00:45:24,253
He won Wimbledon poise
508
00:45:26,457 --> 00:45:29,225
and then turned pro the
next day in Switzerland.
509
00:45:30,261 --> 00:45:33,863
In Switzerland
we don't expect people
to win big tournaments.
510
00:45:33,898 --> 00:45:36,265
So, at the time, especially not.
511
00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:38,201
We like to be precise,
512
00:45:39,136 --> 00:45:40,770
I generalize here, to the max,
513
00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:43,473
and you're
supposed to be humble.
514
00:45:44,375 --> 00:45:47,843
So it's kind of interesting
also when he came along
515
00:45:47,878 --> 00:45:51,914
and he basically said,
you know, I want to win--
win big tournaments.
516
00:45:51,949 --> 00:45:53,916
And he wasn't really
humble about it.
517
00:45:53,951 --> 00:45:56,486
And one of the first big
matches he played was in Basel
518
00:45:58,389 --> 00:46:00,089
against Andre Agassi.
519
00:46:01,425 --> 00:46:03,493
And, you know,
he went out there to win,
520
00:46:06,030 --> 00:46:08,964
which was almost
like what is he trying to do,
521
00:46:08,999 --> 00:46:11,100
you're playing against Andre
Agassi and you are a junior,
522
00:46:11,135 --> 00:46:12,802
you know, you're
supposed to lose here.
523
00:46:12,837 --> 00:46:14,337
But he wasn't acting that way.
524
00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:20,142
But then
the losing hurt, you know,
it just really did.
525
00:46:20,177 --> 00:46:21,377
I didn't like losing.
526
00:46:26,650 --> 00:46:29,385
The number of times
we would go to tournaments
527
00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:32,254
and he would throw in
a substandard performance
528
00:46:32,289 --> 00:46:36,859
or he'd mentally break down
and he'd get emotional,
he'd throw his rackets.
529
00:46:37,995 --> 00:46:40,062
He was losing matches
he should have won.
530
00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:46,435
I was too
far ahead of myself.
531
00:46:47,471 --> 00:46:50,406
I don't want to say cocky
but I think I probably
thought I was better
532
00:46:50,441 --> 00:46:54,343
than I maybe was sometimes, that
I could hit shots I saw on TV.
533
00:46:54,378 --> 00:46:59,615
He was all flourishes and
beautiful trick shots but there
was no identity to his game.
534
00:46:59,650 --> 00:47:02,051
Roger was getting very
angry on the tennis court,
535
00:47:02,086 --> 00:47:03,919
he was breaking racket or
whatever when he was young.
536
00:47:03,954 --> 00:47:06,556
But he was always
respecting the opponent.
537
00:47:07,591 --> 00:47:10,626
It was always against himself.
He was never being provocative.
538
00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:12,995
He was never being unfair.
He was never cheating.
539
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:18,920
He went through times when he was very,
very hard on himself.
540
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,160
He is very, very self-critical.
541
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,880
It's difficult for an artist
when he has a desire to express himself,
542
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,600
and he knows how to express himself,
543
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,800
but he can't actually express himself the way he wants to.
544
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,120
And that's why at the beginning of his career,
545
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,440
it may have taken a while,
546
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:42,560
because there were so many things
to put together in the puzzle.
547
00:47:44,361 --> 00:47:46,362
I'm telling you,
people were rolling their eyes
548
00:47:46,397 --> 00:47:49,531
when I kept bringing
him up in conversation.
549
00:47:49,566 --> 00:47:53,102
When I reached the stage
of my career where I'm
touring professional
550
00:47:53,137 --> 00:47:56,071
and I just thought,
well, honestly, I feel
uncomfortable doing this
551
00:47:56,106 --> 00:47:59,942
in front of ten thousand people,
I don't like to do it when
there's live TV watching,
552
00:47:59,977 --> 00:48:02,278
and I don't know
how many thousands
or millions are watching,
553
00:48:02,313 --> 00:48:06,048
you know, in their
living room, me playing,
throwing rackets and shouting
554
00:48:06,083 --> 00:48:09,518
and what is the
commentary saying about
me, I didn't like that.
555
00:48:10,654 --> 00:48:12,255
And I said, "I'll change
from here on."
556
00:48:18,429 --> 00:48:21,197
I think each
generation has their guy.
557
00:48:22,633 --> 00:48:26,135
Borg certainly was the player
of his generation. Lendl.
558
00:48:26,170 --> 00:48:29,171
I was probably the player
of my generation in the '90s.
559
00:48:30,374 --> 00:48:32,675
I felt like I was going
to win that match.
560
00:48:32,710 --> 00:48:34,276
I just felt pretty confident.
561
00:48:34,311 --> 00:48:35,644
He was pretty young at the time
562
00:48:35,679 --> 00:48:39,181
but Roger was very tough.
563
00:48:39,216 --> 00:48:40,516
Oh,
that's a great shot.
564
00:48:49,159 --> 00:48:50,426
I was
caught off guard.
565
00:48:52,029 --> 00:48:56,131
He was serving huge, he was
moving great, he was returning
my serve with ease
566
00:48:56,166 --> 00:48:58,401
and just felt a little
bit overpowered.
567
00:49:02,506 --> 00:49:03,940
Thank you .
568
00:49:08,245 --> 00:49:10,746
He's done it!
The champion is out!
569
00:49:17,454 --> 00:49:20,990
It's tough out there.
He definitely is...
He's got a great future.
570
00:49:21,025 --> 00:49:23,459
I mean, he's already proven
that he's a great player
571
00:49:24,695 --> 00:49:26,429
and that he's got a good
chance to maybe go all the way.
572
00:49:28,699 --> 00:49:32,534
A new
bat in tennis' past
to a new generation.
573
00:49:32,569 --> 00:49:36,205
Federer can hardly believe it,
the emotion at the moment
574
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:41,010
of having beaten the greatest
grass court player of all time
is too much for him.
575
00:49:42,246 --> 00:49:47,716
Nineteen years of age
and his first ever appearance on
the Centre Court of Wimbledon.
576
00:49:47,751 --> 00:49:54,289
He has played a magnificent
match to defeat the seven
times champion
577
00:49:54,324 --> 00:49:57,093
in five extraordinary sets.
578
00:49:57,861 --> 00:50:01,163
You have to find your
own identity and do it your way.
579
00:50:01,198 --> 00:50:04,200
Only I believe when
Wimbledon rolled around in 2003,
580
00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:07,469
I felt like I grew into my own.
581
00:50:07,504 --> 00:50:12,207
I felt comfortable with
the fighting spirit, the
positive and negative energy,
582
00:50:12,242 --> 00:50:16,178
how to absorb and how to utilize
it in the best possible way.
583
00:50:21,285 --> 00:50:22,818
Everything comes into play.
584
00:50:22,853 --> 00:50:24,853
So, there's just a lot
of decision-making,
585
00:50:24,888 --> 00:50:27,356
a lot of mistakes you
can do along the way,
586
00:50:27,391 --> 00:50:30,259
but one thing you
can't is you can't do it
perfect every single time.
587
00:50:30,294 --> 00:50:34,630
So you have to learn to play
with problems and you have
to learn how to play with pain.
588
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,280
One therefore has to find this harmony.
589
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,880
That's why it's crucial for Roger,
590
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,160
that the man he is, embodies the player he is.
591
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,640
That those two are one and the same thing.
592
00:51:16,874 --> 00:51:19,642
Everyone knew that
Nadal was a great fighter.
593
00:51:21,145 --> 00:51:23,812
But with Federer, you know,
he's naturally a front-runner.
594
00:51:23,847 --> 00:51:27,716
On grass especially he'd
always for the last few years
had completely dominated.
595
00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:30,486
He'd never had to come back
from behind in that way.
596
00:51:30,521 --> 00:51:32,488
And so everyone knew that
Nadal would fight to the end.
597
00:51:32,523 --> 00:51:35,724
But one wasn't quite sure
how Federer would
react to adversity.
598
00:51:51,909 --> 00:51:53,375
Hello.
599
00:51:53,410 --> 00:51:54,610
This has turned around.
600
00:51:56,446 --> 00:51:57,912
He loves to win.
601
00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:00,415
He's Mr. Nice Guy
but he wants to beat you
when he's on the court.
602
00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:02,818
He wants to find the
solution to how to win.
603
00:52:03,854 --> 00:52:05,654
Game Federer.
604
00:52:07,824 --> 00:52:11,160
I believe that the rain delay
probably woke me up and I said,
605
00:52:11,195 --> 00:52:14,196
well, if we're going
to go out of this match,
606
00:52:14,231 --> 00:52:18,634
well, at least you're going
to go down swinging
and really start to wake up.
607
00:52:18,669 --> 00:52:21,770
You know if it
does go to a tie break, it will
be the last roll of the dice
608
00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:23,639
for Federer to see whether
he can stay in the match.
609
00:52:29,813 --> 00:52:31,747
Game Nadal.
610
00:52:33,850 --> 00:52:36,619
Six, game two, six. Tie break.
611
00:52:44,561 --> 00:52:49,498
Neither player
has lost a tie breaker in this
championship so far.
612
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:54,369
Federer's 103, he's played
Nadal's 104, he's played.
613
00:52:54,404 --> 00:52:55,771
Something has to give.
614
00:53:13,657 --> 00:53:17,760
You have to find a certain
intensity, I believe, that helps
you through these moments.
615
00:53:30,707 --> 00:53:35,277
That's part of showing
your opponent that you're
really interested to win.
616
00:53:54,464 --> 00:53:59,601
Well, there's no
mistaking what the crowd wants
and it's no disrespect to Nadal.
617
00:53:59,636 --> 00:54:02,504
But I think they quite
fancy some more tennis.
618
00:54:02,539 --> 00:54:04,339
Thank you.
619
00:54:04,374 --> 00:54:06,308
Federer certainly
wanted to play more tennis
620
00:54:06,343 --> 00:54:08,076
and he still believed that
he could turn it around.
621
00:54:08,111 --> 00:54:13,315
And it was amazing how he was
able to-- to hang in there and--
622
00:54:13,350 --> 00:54:17,720
and maintain the belief against
the guy that we all know has
caused him a lot of problems.
623
00:54:20,624 --> 00:54:24,260
This was someone trying
to take away his crown
in his own backyard.
624
00:54:28,098 --> 00:54:33,969
So, two sets to love down,
you know, the way Federer
dug in was-- was impressive.
625
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,160
Federer's serve is much better than mine.
626
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,000
He has won many games with his serve,
627
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:50,800
in under a minute and a few seconds.
628
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,160
That doesn't happen to me...
629
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:58,000
so I need other virtues that he doesn't have.
630
00:55:09,005 --> 00:55:11,707
6-5, Federer.
631
00:55:32,028 --> 00:55:33,128
Federer.
632
00:55:34,865 --> 00:55:36,532
Federer game 2-6.
633
00:55:38,135 --> 00:55:40,969
Well,
that wasn't so much
of a cheer as an eruption.
634
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,760
We reached the tie break of the third set,
635
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:48,840
Rafael lost.
636
00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:53,600
Always, when we started,
637
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:55,440
I used to say to Rafael...
638
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:56,360
"Good face."
639
00:55:57,240 --> 00:56:03,400
When he started to train
I always used to say, “Good face."
640
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:04,320
Why?
641
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,400
Because it's impossible to learn,
642
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:13,480
to improve or do anything right
when you don't have a good attitude.
643
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:19,080
When he has had situations against other tennis players,
644
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:22,080
that have overwhelmed him,
645
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,240
well he has almost always been able to turn things to his side.
646
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:33,160
And I think doubt or the uncertainty of not being the best...
647
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,320
makes you try to do it better in some way.
648
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:43,800
I've never considered myself good enough to
just go and train, and just train.
649
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,640
I've always gone training with the desire of improving.
650
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:54,640
I believe he has no reason not to be humble...
651
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,360
he has no reason to feel special.
652
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:05,280
He's special when he plays tennis
in New York or in Wimbledon,
653
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,440
where there are 20,000 people in the finals.
654
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:13,680
I don't think it is possible to stop being humble
because you perfectly hit a tennis ball.
655
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:21,960
I don't see the world as Rafa Nadal,
the tennis player or tennis star.
656
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:24,360
I see the world as a normal person.
657
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,080
My life here is completely normal, like any of my friends.
658
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:35,080
The feeling of belonging to Mallorca, an island,
659
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,880
a place where you always feel comfortable
660
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,880
and where you always want to go back
because you think it is the place...
661
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:47,240
that gives you the energy
to continue with your professional career.
662
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:53,160
I think for Rafael this is the place where he feels the tranquility
663
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,320
that he can't feel in any other place.
664
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:03,240
When he comes here, he feels supported by his friends,
665
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:08,360
he feels the way he did as a kid.
666
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,640
So Rafa, even though he's been traveling since he was young,
667
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,360
he has always wanted to come back.
668
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,600
I believe he has never imagined himself
living anywhere but Mallorca.
669
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:26,720
Here I can see my friends and my family every day
670
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:34,080
and that makes my relationship with my family
one of the most important things in my life.
671
00:58:35,211 --> 00:58:40,916
He finds his own way to
feel comfortable at Wimbledon or
Australian Open or French Open,
672
00:58:40,951 --> 00:58:45,287
whatever it is, he creates
a home, you know,
where it's not his own.
673
00:58:45,322 --> 00:58:47,322
He doesn't try to recreate
what he's got in Mallorca,
674
00:58:47,357 --> 00:58:49,958
that's impossible, but he
creates his own environment.
675
00:58:49,993 --> 00:58:53,762
You know, he rents a place
and he's got his family
there with him.
676
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,240
You can spend some time with your family
677
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:01,840
if they come over and you can have a positive
and peaceful atmosphere.
678
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:06,360
Sometimes I cook, sometimes someone else does.
679
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,520
I like cooking, I have no issues with that.
680
00:59:10,146 --> 00:59:14,182
Everything is programmed
in order to try to be
as relaxed as possible
681
00:59:14,217 --> 00:59:16,952
and try to be as focused
and concentrated as possible.
682
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:24,040
I can imagine that Nadal, who is a great tennis fighter,
683
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,160
has always looked for the challenge of solving problems.
684
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,720
And I think that with Roger, it's the same thing.
685
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,760
Maybe they each have their philosophy
about how to solve the problem.
686
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:38,800
Roger always needs to feel something positive,
687
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:45,480
he always needs to feel the opening up
of a possibility, a path, a solution.
688
00:59:47,017 --> 00:59:48,417
Pierre is definitely
part of my mental game
689
00:59:48,452 --> 00:59:53,188
even though I don't feel
like I do any mental
work to-- for tennis.
690
00:59:53,223 --> 00:59:57,959
But our-- let's say if
we catch up together and
we-- we're working out,
691
00:59:57,994 --> 01:00:03,131
probably thirty percent
of it is talking, you know,
about possibilities,
692
01:00:03,166 --> 01:00:06,935
what could we change, what could
we do, what else can we improve.
693
01:00:09,305 --> 01:00:12,340
"How's life at home, Roger?"
And I'm like, I'll talk to him
about it, you know.
694
01:00:12,375 --> 01:00:13,808
So I'm very open and honest.
695
01:00:13,843 --> 01:00:18,981
I think Pierre knows
a lot about me more than
most people in my life.
696
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,400
He's always been himself and I think
697
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:26,320
that this has been his great mental labor his entire life.
698
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:31,520
I noticed that already when he was young,
699
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:37,120
He always tried to find a balance between
what he does and who he is.
700
01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:43,471
His attention to detail
into his training, his-- his
practice, his injury prevention,
701
01:00:43,506 --> 01:00:46,942
his schedule and--
and his matches is incredible.
702
01:00:48,078 --> 01:00:52,013
And I think sometimes
he doesn't get the almost
the credit he deserves
703
01:00:52,048 --> 01:00:53,481
because he makes
it look so easy.
704
01:00:53,516 --> 01:00:57,118
He's a good phy-- physique
that doesn't put too
much stress on his joints.
705
01:00:57,153 --> 01:00:58,987
He's a great mover.
He's well balanced.
706
01:00:59,022 --> 01:01:03,258
So people think, well,
that's it's just natural,
it's a God-given talent
707
01:01:03,293 --> 01:01:06,861
and he does have enormous
talent but he works just
as hard as anyone else
708
01:01:06,896 --> 01:01:09,231
at-- at improving
all those attributes.
709
01:01:11,234 --> 01:01:15,970
If family and wife's not happy,
then my tennis is going to
wobble, you know.
710
01:01:16,005 --> 01:01:20,141
And then if this doesn't work
out, the fitness is not right,
then everything--
711
01:01:20,176 --> 01:01:22,911
it's like a Jenga block
building, you know,
712
01:01:22,946 --> 01:01:24,913
and everything
needs to fall into place.
713
01:01:25,982 --> 01:01:28,850
My wife, who I met back
in 2000 at the Olympics,
714
01:01:28,885 --> 01:01:32,020
I mean she-- she's been a rock,
you know, in my life, you know.
715
01:01:32,055 --> 01:01:34,222
She's been there,
gave me consistency.
716
01:01:34,257 --> 01:01:36,892
Is the guy-- is the guy you
are with, is he very nice?
717
01:01:38,094 --> 01:01:39,428
Yeah, he's very nice.
718
01:01:42,031 --> 01:01:47,936
I think most important
is that you're authentic
that you're yourself
719
01:01:47,971 --> 01:01:50,438
and that's what Roger is.
720
01:01:50,473 --> 01:01:54,309
Off the court I think it's very
important but also on the
court, you know.
721
01:01:54,344 --> 01:01:58,513
If you try to show things that
are not really inside of you,
722
01:01:58,548 --> 01:02:03,218
then it-- it doesn't work, the
whole puzzle doesn't work.
723
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:09,360
Roger looks for the perfect game.
He seeks harmony. He seeks creativity.
724
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:13,840
But we must not forget that Roger is also ready to fight.
725
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,840
Roger is an artist who knows how to fight,
726
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:23,280
whereas Nadal is a fighter
who knows how to be an artist as well.
727
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,400
It's similar to ballet.
728
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:38,840
We don't see the effort, but we know
that these people work very hard...
729
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:46,520
to express grace, to express harmony.
730
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,360
I think that controlling time is what leads you to success.
731
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,120
The greatest sportsmen of history,
732
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:14,000
have the mental capacity to think faster, see faster
733
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:21,840
and make important decisions faster than others.
734
01:03:35,979 --> 01:03:37,846
Fantastic point.
735
01:04:59,228 --> 01:05:01,029
Game Federer.
736
01:05:04,701 --> 01:05:08,937
Six against oh,
fourth set, tie break.
737
01:05:08,972 --> 01:05:12,140
He didn't really think
that he was going to give
this championship away
738
01:05:12,175 --> 01:05:14,309
after five years as the boss.
739
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,422
Both players
will receive one
additional challenge.
740
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:35,400
Rafa! Roger!
741
01:05:38,201 --> 01:05:39,567
Thank you.
742
01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:41,436
Thank you. Quiet, please.
743
01:06:11,067 --> 01:06:13,201
2-1, Nadal.
744
01:06:14,470 --> 01:06:16,471
Nadal
takes back the advantage.
745
01:06:35,792 --> 01:06:38,793
As confident
as we are, and we need
to have that confidence,
746
01:06:38,828 --> 01:06:42,096
we also need to know the other
side that it's always dangerous.
747
01:06:42,131 --> 01:06:46,701
Nadal
is closing in on this
Wimbledon men's singles title.
748
01:06:47,670 --> 01:06:50,605
You learn
so much from the sport
from winning, from losing,
749
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,341
trying to figure out
and just being uncomfortable
750
01:06:53,376 --> 01:06:56,311
and trying to fight through
those-- those difficult moments.
751
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:12,226
That's wide.
752
01:07:12,261 --> 01:07:14,362
That could be
the crucial blow.
753
01:07:18,401 --> 01:07:21,202
Uncle Toni can't even
watch anymore.
754
01:07:21,237 --> 01:07:23,037
Five-two, Nadal.
755
01:07:23,072 --> 01:07:27,442
He's coached
this young man, his nephew,
since he was four years old.
756
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,000
I remember that...
757
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:39,960
Rafael was up 5 to 2 with two serves,
758
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,400
the match was almost won.
759
01:07:42,692 --> 01:07:46,294
And he
is two points away
from the championship
760
01:07:46,329 --> 01:07:48,630
and he will serve
the next two points.
761
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:02,360
At that moment I started to feel nervous.
762
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:15,560
When he missed his first serve,
763
01:08:16,480 --> 01:08:20,680
I told Carlos Costa who was sitting next to me, I said,
"Double fault."
764
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,520
I didn't want to look.
765
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,440
Once I missed my first serve,
766
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,520
I had a feeling I might double fault.
767
01:08:32,808 --> 01:08:33,808
Fault!
768
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:39,681
Five-three, Nadal.
769
01:08:55,198 --> 01:08:56,597
Federer is a champion.
770
01:08:56,632 --> 01:08:58,933
He has that mentality in him
771
01:08:58,968 --> 01:09:05,373
and started to see Nadal
at the other end just shaken
a little and a little scared.
772
01:09:11,314 --> 01:09:13,515
And Federer jumped on that.
773
01:09:15,718 --> 01:09:19,287
Set point
or match point from here on in.
774
01:09:30,666 --> 01:09:33,468
6-5, Federer.
775
01:09:39,475 --> 01:09:41,442
Oh, he waited for it!
776
01:10:19,715 --> 01:10:21,983
8-7, Nadal.
777
01:10:22,918 --> 01:10:25,019
And that
means championship point.
778
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:46,240
When I was serving to win Wimbledon,
779
01:10:49,480 --> 01:10:50,360
I thought...
780
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:52,120
“I'm gonna win Wimbledon”.
781
01:11:01,123 --> 01:11:04,892
I remember to be on the
chair and do like phew!
782
01:11:06,429 --> 01:11:08,763
Oh my goodness!
783
01:11:08,798 --> 01:11:12,733
For Roger to hit a shot
at that moment
784
01:11:12,768 --> 01:11:17,472
with that incredible pace off
the backhand was jaw-dropping.
785
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:24,240
That was the worst feeling I’ve had on a tennis court.
786
01:11:27,440 --> 01:11:31,800
I never think “I'm going to win.”
Instead, I just focus on the next point.
787
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:36,080
But that match was so important, I felt
that the ball was there and I'd win.
788
01:11:37,593 --> 01:11:40,895
The two best
passing shots of the tournament
789
01:11:40,930 --> 01:11:45,333
without doubt have just taken
place on the last two points.
790
01:11:45,368 --> 01:11:46,500
It's eight all.
791
01:11:46,535 --> 01:11:47,502
What's next?
792
01:11:50,005 --> 01:11:52,573
Two championship
points gone for Nadal.
793
01:12:18,134 --> 01:12:20,802
Sheer
quality from both players.
794
01:13:01,610 --> 01:13:06,480
Roger pulled out the fourth
set tie breaker and had
saved a few match points
795
01:13:06,515 --> 01:13:10,551
because that seemed like it took
it to this whole new level.
796
01:13:11,987 --> 01:13:17,191
Haven't seen
a tie break like that since
Borg-McEnroe 1980.
797
01:13:17,226 --> 01:13:18,459
It was up there.
798
01:13:21,497 --> 01:13:24,031
We really do have
the classic confrontation here,
799
01:13:24,066 --> 01:13:26,901
the best server McEnroe
against the best returner,
800
01:13:26,936 --> 01:13:30,438
and the most volatile player in
the world against the calmest.
801
01:13:36,011 --> 01:13:39,880
On the court
it was something special
to see John's face.
802
01:13:39,915 --> 01:13:45,486
You knew that this is going
to be a hell of a fight, this is
going to be a hell of a match.
803
01:13:45,521 --> 01:13:47,221
And you have
to hand it to both men.
804
01:13:51,594 --> 01:13:54,462
There hasn't been an inch
given by either of them.
805
01:13:55,498 --> 01:13:59,099
They've both looked
down the gun barrel
and they're both still alive.
806
01:13:59,134 --> 01:14:02,169
I always get a hundred,
and I wanted to win.
807
01:14:02,204 --> 01:14:03,471
That's it!
808
01:14:06,141 --> 01:14:10,778
That was the most
memorable match in my career.
809
01:14:10,813 --> 01:14:15,817
And to win for the fifth time
in a row, to beat John in the
final, was something special.
810
01:14:16,952 --> 01:14:20,187
Borg and McEnroe
is something that people
are still talking about
811
01:14:20,222 --> 01:14:23,691
nearly forty years on.
And-- and that will continue.
812
01:14:23,726 --> 01:14:26,961
So the
number two player in the word
just watching and seeing,
813
01:14:26,996 --> 01:14:30,798
waiting for the day
when perhaps he'll
have this chance to do that.
814
01:14:32,234 --> 01:14:35,870
I've spent the last twenty-five
years of my life trying to
figure out a way
815
01:14:35,905 --> 01:14:38,772
to remember the wins instead
of dwelling on my losses.
816
01:14:42,678 --> 01:14:44,144
It goes
for both Chris and I.
817
01:14:44,180 --> 01:14:47,214
We would have both won
a whole bunch more if the
other one wasn't around
818
01:14:47,249 --> 01:14:49,517
but we wouldn't have been
as good a tennis player.
819
01:14:51,020 --> 01:14:55,623
At the end of the tournament
we were the only ones in the
locker room on Sunday.
820
01:14:55,658 --> 01:14:57,892
One of us was a winner
and one of us was a loser.
821
01:14:59,228 --> 01:15:01,929
One of us would always be
comforting the other one.
822
01:15:03,933 --> 01:15:06,667
I saw her in her most
vulnerable moments.
823
01:15:07,970 --> 01:15:12,006
I think that Martina
and I got to a point where
it was like, you know,
824
01:15:12,041 --> 01:15:16,010
okay, the match is over,
this is all about human
compassion now.
825
01:15:17,379 --> 01:15:22,717
You embrace the fact that maybe
this rivalry is bigger than you
826
01:15:23,719 --> 01:15:26,287
and you're a part
of something wonderful.
827
01:15:27,256 --> 01:15:30,891
They share
something, these players,
I see it's when they retire,
828
01:15:30,926 --> 01:15:34,094
having spent time on the
Champions Tour you see that
829
01:15:34,129 --> 01:15:37,898
that they're-- they're
often happiest in
each other's company.
830
01:15:37,933 --> 01:15:39,834
Certainly Borg and McEnroe Are.
831
01:15:44,740 --> 01:15:46,206
Game set match!
832
01:15:46,241 --> 01:15:47,742
He's won it! He's won it!
833
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:53,280
When I did win it,
I felt like I could fly for that
couple of seconds or a minute
834
01:15:53,315 --> 01:15:56,918
when it happened because
I felt like I finally earned it.
835
01:15:58,187 --> 01:16:00,621
But, at the same time,
soon afterwards
836
01:16:03,025 --> 01:16:04,592
my greatest rival quit.
837
01:16:05,995 --> 01:16:08,329
'81 was my last year.
838
01:16:08,364 --> 01:16:12,099
I just lost my
motivation for tennis.
839
01:16:13,369 --> 01:16:17,605
And then the worst thing
came that I didn't care
if I was winning or losing.
840
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:18,839
And that's not me.
841
01:16:18,874 --> 01:16:20,741
He was retiring.
842
01:16:20,776 --> 01:16:24,411
He told us a few months
after the Open when I
played him in the '81 Open,
843
01:16:24,446 --> 01:16:26,847
he said I'm retire-- we thought
he was kidding, we laughed.
844
01:16:29,785 --> 01:16:34,221
It felt like tennis was bigger
than ever and we were on
the cover of Sports Illustrated
845
01:16:34,256 --> 01:16:36,357
and people were talking
about it and we were--
846
01:16:37,292 --> 01:16:39,727
it was happening,
you know, and I was like,
"What are you doing?"
847
01:16:39,762 --> 01:16:41,261
I mean this is crazy.
848
01:16:41,296 --> 01:16:44,698
I couldn't believe that he
was even thinking about it.
849
01:16:44,733 --> 01:16:46,967
I think it's too bad for the
game and it's too bad for me
850
01:16:47,002 --> 01:16:49,170
because my best tennis
has been against him but--
851
01:16:50,205 --> 01:16:55,409
I did over the course of the
next couple of years tried to
talk him into coming back,
852
01:16:55,444 --> 01:16:58,679
or I wanted him to come back
or when are you coming back.
853
01:16:58,714 --> 01:17:02,916
I would have been happy
for him to come back and lose
my number one ranking
854
01:17:02,951 --> 01:17:05,719
because I think he was
that important to the game.
855
01:17:05,754 --> 01:17:07,254
And he was that
important to me.
856
01:17:18,333 --> 01:17:20,300
And now,
for the second year in a row,
857
01:17:20,335 --> 01:17:24,104
a five-set final between the
two best players in the world.
858
01:17:24,139 --> 01:17:26,207
The way
that mach unfolded,
859
01:17:27,242 --> 01:17:31,745
I remember the producer saying
to me, "What can you see?
860
01:17:31,780 --> 01:17:34,982
What can you tell us
from the statistics as
we head into this fifth set
861
01:17:35,017 --> 01:17:37,118
that will determine
the Wimbledon champion?"
862
01:17:40,155 --> 01:17:43,924
And I remember thinking
stats right now just
feel utterly irrelevant.
863
01:17:47,830 --> 01:17:49,463
Oh!
864
01:17:51,066 --> 01:17:54,368
These guys were
doing their thing at a level
we hadn't seen before.
865
01:17:54,403 --> 01:17:59,473
I think I felt like I owe it to
the players, not to sort of be
a loud-mouth and sort of say,
866
01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:03,377
"Oh, this is what they
should do now in the fifth."
That's a bunch of baloney.
867
01:18:03,412 --> 01:18:06,847
That's it. This is emotional,
this is like heart and will.
868
01:18:10,519 --> 01:18:12,219
Game Federer.
869
01:18:12,254 --> 01:18:16,190
Now for
the first time in three hours
and thirty-seven minutes
870
01:18:16,225 --> 01:18:17,725
Roger is in the lead.
871
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:19,927
It's something
where you have to say,
872
01:18:20,996 --> 01:18:25,199
let's just watch this and enjoy
something because this doesn't
come along very often.
873
01:18:40,916 --> 01:18:43,183
Game Federer.
874
01:18:43,218 --> 01:18:47,421
That's the first
time we've seen Rafa Nadal shake
his head this entire tournament
875
01:18:47,456 --> 01:18:51,158
and why not, two match points
and the fourth set tie breaker.
876
01:19:09,077 --> 01:19:11,011
Ah, it's brilliantly played!
877
01:19:24,459 --> 01:19:27,861
Two spots
of rain here on Centre
Court, I'm afraid.
878
01:19:27,896 --> 01:19:29,463
Getting a little heavier.
879
01:19:39,908 --> 01:19:42,576
The play is stopping
and that is too bad.
880
01:19:45,147 --> 01:19:49,550
Three hours and fifty-six
minutes, a first-class
drama on Centre Court.
881
01:19:50,560 --> 01:19:55,240
The match was stopped at 2-2 in the fifth set,
882
01:19:56,640 --> 01:20:00,920
I thought the match was lost.
883
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,920
That Federer had a better chance of victory.
884
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:11,320
Rafa had lost twice before to Federer.
885
01:20:12,440 --> 01:20:15,320
He had had a chance to win,
886
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,280
and it had vanished in front of him.
887
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:23,880
I went to the locker room,
888
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:28,960
because I thought I was
going to find Rafael with very...
889
01:20:30,480 --> 01:20:32,280
very low hopes.
890
01:20:33,440 --> 01:20:36,320
I thought, "What can I tell Rafael to motivate him,
891
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:39,240
to raise his spirits?"
892
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:45,640
I don't know what Toni meant to tell me at the moment,
893
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:46,720
but...
894
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:54,320
I was prepared to take on the challenge
and deal with adversity at every moment.
895
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:59,240
And that's what I told Toni,
that I wouldn't fail.
896
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:02,960
Federer could win,
897
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,800
but I wasn't going to lose.
898
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:09,320
If he wins, so be it,
899
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,120
but I won't lose.
900
01:21:13,735 --> 01:21:17,471
And those
clouds are clearing off,
those ones on the right.
901
01:21:35,590 --> 01:21:38,692
We are so
very different in how
we approach things.
902
01:21:38,727 --> 01:21:43,631
Yet, if you scratch only the
surface, you realize that
we're probably quite similar.
903
01:21:45,667 --> 01:21:49,670
Constantly thinking, thinking,
thinking what could be my next
play, it's like a chess game,
904
01:21:49,705 --> 01:21:52,039
you know, like there's
always a next move.
905
01:21:53,208 --> 01:21:55,209
Wondrous forehand!
906
01:22:02,718 --> 01:22:04,151
Game Federer.
907
01:22:05,187 --> 01:22:08,555
Federer leads six games to five.
908
01:22:08,590 --> 01:22:09,924
Final set.
909
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,720
I do admire Federer's style
910
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,160
and those who don't
911
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:19,600
either they don't know about tennis...
912
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:24,720
even if you're someone else's fan,
913
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:28,640
you need to be able to recognize excellence
914
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:33,280
and Federer is excellent in every sense.
915
01:22:43,358 --> 01:22:44,458
Game Nadal.
916
01:22:45,727 --> 01:22:47,494
Six games all. Final set.
917
01:22:47,529 --> 01:22:51,465
There is no tie
break in the fifth, a deciding
set at Wimbledon.
918
01:22:51,500 --> 01:22:52,733
So we go on.
919
01:22:52,768 --> 01:22:54,969
It has to be two-game
advantage.
920
01:23:20,729 --> 01:23:22,162
Game Federer.
921
01:23:27,836 --> 01:23:32,106
And Nadal will
come out to serve again
to stay in the match.
922
01:23:47,289 --> 01:23:49,289
Seven games all. Final set.
923
01:23:51,093 --> 01:23:54,728
Imagine being two
sets to love up against
a guy you've never beaten
924
01:23:54,763 --> 01:23:58,565
in the Wimbledon final
before and then he starts
to come back at you
925
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:03,203
and he's starting to show
everybody how he's won all
of these Wimbledon titles.
926
01:24:03,238 --> 01:24:07,207
How Nadal held it together
after that, I don't think
I'll ever know.
927
01:24:18,854 --> 01:24:20,421
Advantage Nadal.
928
01:24:21,957 --> 01:24:24,491
Here
is another breakpoint,
the fourth of the game.
929
01:24:32,567 --> 01:24:33,767
Game Nadal.
930
01:24:38,340 --> 01:24:43,176
Nadal leads by eight
games to seven, final set.
931
01:24:43,211 --> 01:24:45,746
The tennis was--
was incredibly good.
932
01:24:50,418 --> 01:24:52,286
The only concern
is maybe the darkness.
933
01:24:53,922 --> 01:24:56,656
The court
was almost being lit
by flashbulbs at the end.
934
01:24:56,691 --> 01:24:59,159
It was painfully dark.
935
01:24:59,194 --> 01:25:03,730
Stopping a match for darkness
is up to the referee.
936
01:25:03,765 --> 01:25:06,733
But because they
are not reacting to it,
937
01:25:06,768 --> 01:25:12,672
okay let's keep playing
until a point where it's--
it's getting too dark.
938
01:25:12,707 --> 01:25:18,178
There's been occasions where
major events such as Wimbledon
have gone on to the next day.
939
01:25:19,481 --> 01:25:21,681
This had just
been too good to say,
940
01:25:21,716 --> 01:25:26,453
"Wait a second, we're going
to stop and come back and play,
perhaps, one game the next day."
941
01:25:26,488 --> 01:25:27,888
Let's try to finish it.
942
01:25:28,757 --> 01:25:31,191
Let's-- let's try to have
a winner tonight.
943
01:25:56,218 --> 01:26:02,422
The five-time
defending champion is at the
mercy of Rafael Nadal here.
944
01:26:06,561 --> 01:26:10,397
Ah! Well, no wonder
people stand.
945
01:26:12,968 --> 01:26:17,270
Three match points Nadal
has had, three times
he's been on the break
946
01:26:17,305 --> 01:26:20,774
and three times
Federer has said no.
947
01:26:29,351 --> 01:26:31,451
Advantage Nadal.
948
01:26:59,614 --> 01:27:03,750
There is a new
man at the head of men's tennis,
949
01:27:03,785 --> 01:27:06,019
Rafael Nadal.
950
01:27:07,355 --> 01:27:08,422
Six-seven.
951
01:27:09,324 --> 01:27:10,457
Nine-seven.
952
01:28:15,123 --> 01:28:17,457
Runner-up,
Roger Federer!
953
01:28:40,982 --> 01:28:46,986
And the Wimbledon
gentlemen's singles
champion for 2008,
954
01:28:47,021 --> 01:28:48,955
Rafael Nadal!
955
01:29:05,974 --> 01:29:09,809
And the fact that you
beat Roger here on Centre Court
956
01:29:09,844 --> 01:29:12,545
in arguably one of the greatest
finals we have ever seen,
957
01:29:12,580 --> 01:29:14,981
does that make this
even more special?
958
01:29:15,016 --> 01:29:16,083
Well...
959
01:29:17,685 --> 01:29:18,618
For sure.
960
01:29:20,155 --> 01:29:22,789
You know, when Roger,
he after five years--
961
01:29:22,824 --> 01:29:27,394
I lost the last two finals,
close finals, but he is
still the number one.
962
01:29:27,429 --> 01:29:28,695
He's still the best.
963
01:29:28,730 --> 01:29:30,463
He's still five-time
champions here.
964
01:29:30,498 --> 01:29:32,031
And right now I have one.
965
01:29:32,066 --> 01:29:34,101
So, for me it's very,
very, very important.
966
01:29:38,440 --> 01:29:42,008
And now having
shared this contest together,
967
01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:46,012
they now share the
limelight and rightly so.
968
01:29:46,047 --> 01:29:47,447
There's two champions there.
969
01:29:47,482 --> 01:29:48,915
No six in a row
for Roger Federer,
970
01:29:48,950 --> 01:29:53,620
but the first French Open,
Wimbledon Doubles
since Bjorn Borg.
971
01:29:55,156 --> 01:29:57,824
We'll be talking
about that match for decades.
972
01:30:00,128 --> 01:30:02,862
I think I'm going to say
another fifty years of matches.
973
01:30:02,897 --> 01:30:04,931
And I'd be surprised
if it's better.
974
01:30:04,966 --> 01:30:08,134
First of all, can I just say
thank you as a tennis player
975
01:30:08,169 --> 01:30:11,471
that you allowed us to be part
of this amazing spectacle.
976
01:30:11,506 --> 01:30:13,206
I mean is that--
is that any consolation?
977
01:30:13,241 --> 01:30:14,274
A little bit.
978
01:30:14,309 --> 01:30:17,544
Thanks, John. It's tough,
it's tough, it hurts.
979
01:30:17,579 --> 01:30:18,979
In the moment itself,
980
01:30:19,014 --> 01:30:21,581
you know, I was like,
"Oh my God, this is the
worst day of my life."
981
01:30:22,684 --> 01:30:27,554
It was really-- was like a
maybe three, four, five, six,
seven weeks after the match
982
01:30:27,589 --> 01:30:30,023
that I really started to feel
the magnitude of the match.
983
01:30:34,996 --> 01:30:36,863
These two
haven't played each
other since Wimbledon,
984
01:30:36,898 --> 01:30:38,765
so this is a treat for us
and I'm loving it.
985
01:30:40,600 --> 01:30:46,000
Compared to the way things were for years,
history was now being rewritten.
986
01:30:47,609 --> 01:30:49,109
Nadal has done it!
987
01:30:50,678 --> 01:30:54,948
I had to embrace
the idea of a rival.
988
01:30:54,983 --> 01:30:56,950
In the beginning
I didn't want to have one.
989
01:30:56,985 --> 01:30:59,185
Maybe I'll try later again,
I don't know.
990
01:30:59,220 --> 01:31:00,887
God, it's killing me.
991
01:31:04,292 --> 01:31:09,229
And then, eventually, I realized
there's something good
to take out of these situations.
992
01:31:09,264 --> 01:31:11,664
So I maybe have to adjust
my game a little bit.
993
01:31:11,699 --> 01:31:15,902
I don't like to do that per se,
but why not? Let's go.
994
01:31:15,937 --> 01:31:18,071
This one title
that he has not yet won,
995
01:31:18,106 --> 01:31:20,106
he's the guy who's
got to prove himself.
996
01:31:21,643 --> 01:31:23,643
As much as you just
only want to win,
997
01:31:24,913 --> 01:31:28,114
you also want to become
the best player you can
be in-- in your lifetime.
998
01:31:37,792 --> 01:31:41,160
I can't help
but think that from the island
of Mallorca right now,
999
01:31:41,195 --> 01:31:44,864
Rafael Nadal
feels good for Roger.
1000
01:31:44,899 --> 01:31:46,733
Rafael Nadal!
1001
01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:51,040
The circuit evolves, the players evolve,
1002
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:52,920
If you want to keep the same position,
1003
01:31:53,480 --> 01:31:57,080
you have to improve and evolve
from the player you were 8 or 10 years ago.
1004
01:31:57,378 --> 01:32:00,280
Federer's
fifteenth Grand Slam
championship.
1005
01:32:00,315 --> 01:32:02,983
That breaks the tie
with Pete Sampras.
1006
01:32:04,719 --> 01:32:08,655
I don't know if
Roger would still be around
if Rafael hadn't been born.
1007
01:32:08,690 --> 01:32:12,058
It's hard to stay motivated,
and they kind of
pulled each other.
1008
01:32:13,040 --> 01:32:17,800
They are always forced to reach their limit, to go a bit further,
1009
01:32:18,280 --> 01:32:22,440
but it's not about becoming better just to win,
1010
01:32:22,480 --> 01:32:24,960
but becoming better as a matter of life.
1011
01:32:26,374 --> 01:32:29,609
What makes it stand out
from any other rivalry,
1012
01:32:30,411 --> 01:32:32,045
they're both
exceptional people.
1013
01:32:32,947 --> 01:32:35,615
They both have such
a respect for each other.
1014
01:32:36,784 --> 01:32:38,552
They both are very humble.
1015
01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:41,960
One can win...
1016
01:32:42,280 --> 01:32:43,480
or one can lose.
1017
01:32:43,992 --> 01:32:46,826
This year's runner-up,
Roger Federer.
1018
01:32:47,996 --> 01:32:50,030
Nadal is the king
of Rolad Garros.
1019
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:53,560
That's part of our lives.
1020
01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:59,600
We need to know how to live with both,
defeat and victory.
1021
01:33:02,010 --> 01:33:05,979
These two
guys at their age with all
that they've accomplished,
1022
01:33:07,181 --> 01:33:09,649
with a chance to play
each other again.
1023
01:33:10,752 --> 01:33:12,318
Especially
as you get older,
1024
01:33:12,354 --> 01:33:15,155
you start to feel like how
many more opportunities am I
going to have to do this.
1025
01:33:24,065 --> 01:33:25,365
Ladies and gentlemen,
1026
01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:30,804
the 2017 champion
of the Australian Open,
Roger Federer.
1027
01:33:32,273 --> 01:33:33,340
Thank you, guys.
1028
01:33:34,743 --> 01:33:37,310
You stand there
on the podium, there's
a standing ovation going on,
1029
01:33:37,345 --> 01:33:38,978
everybody's listening,
you could hear a pin drop.
1030
01:33:39,014 --> 01:33:42,348
I don't think we both either
one of us believed that
we're going to be in the finals
1031
01:33:42,383 --> 01:33:44,417
of Australia when
we saw each other.
1032
01:33:44,452 --> 01:33:46,986
And here we stand
in the finals.
1033
01:33:47,021 --> 01:33:52,659
I remember also how I felt
in 2008 and he must have
felt the same in 2017.
1034
01:33:52,694 --> 01:33:54,227
What-- what can
you say? You know.
1035
01:33:55,797 --> 01:33:58,931
Tennis is a-- tennis
is a tough sport.
There's no-- no draws.
1036
01:33:58,966 --> 01:34:01,968
But if there was going to be
one, I would be very happy
to accept the draw tonight
1037
01:34:02,003 --> 01:34:03,837
and share it with Rafa really.
1038
01:34:06,474 --> 01:34:10,443
I learned a lot from those
matches and you-- you feel
like almost you-- you grow up,
1039
01:34:10,478 --> 01:34:14,114
you know, and you have
more experience in life
because of these matches.
1040
01:34:15,183 --> 01:34:17,984
You start respecting
each other more and more
1041
01:34:18,019 --> 01:34:21,688
because in those moments it's
so personal, it's so intense.
1042
01:34:22,490 --> 01:34:26,426
I mean, there's no
question that these two guys
made each other better players.
1043
01:34:26,461 --> 01:34:29,462
The quality is better
than it's ever been.
1044
01:34:29,497 --> 01:34:31,063
What a treat.
1045
01:34:31,099 --> 01:34:34,167
What a treat to have two
of the greatest of all time
playing at the same time,
1046
01:34:34,202 --> 01:34:35,435
you know, it's just--
1047
01:34:36,938 --> 01:34:38,104
we're so lucky.
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