The display of tears from one of sports' greatest rivalries came during the tennis great's final professional match Friday Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at ...

Federer and Nadal, who met 40 times in their career on ... could barely produce a television-worthy take because they were laughing so hard, or, more recently, barely holding it together and ...

And the two shared a laugh. It was a light moment ... of Shanghai will earn 1,000 ranking points, Federer is 2,370 points behind world No. 1 Rafael Nadal. Finishing the year at No. 1 is officially ...

Federer was in tears shortly afterwards, not due to the result, but because of the people he could share the moment with. Rafael Nadal was soon crying beside him. By the end, there was barely ...

Djokovic has surpassed Federer by four Grand Slam singles titles, with 24, and Nadal by two ... “I love winning,” says Djokovic with a laugh. “There is no doubt about it.

Rafa kept pushing and finally ousted his great rival in the 2008 title match. Nadal scored a memorable 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, ...

As Federer acknowledged, Nadal’s career has been nothing short ... South Africa. Always laughing together, battling it out on court and then, sometimes, quite literally holding each other ...

However, the pair have been told they have a way to go before replicating the kind of aura it took the likes of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal years and years to develop. Between them, the young ...

I was laughing during the first set ... a better start than Federer, Nadal (17-3), and Djokovic (16-4). Only Jimmy Connors (19-1) and Roscoe Tanner (18-2) have done as well or better – making ...