Yet, in today's world a bygone decade is a long time ago, and so, we will reclaim this one as ours. Fewer meetings in sport - outside of the hyperbole that is de rigueur in the industry today - retain such a contextual fullness to it. Today, both are fused as one.For the longest time, Nadal had to shrug off the label of a disruptor. Here was a scurrying, never-tiring destroyer of those invisible angles that Federer effortlessly illuminated. Had it not been for Federer, the world would have always willed Nadal to win.

Source: Times of India January 29, 2017 05:50 UTC