Nadal federer wimbledon 2008 download

However, he lost the final to Novak Djokovic who picked the Wimbledon title by defeating top seed Roger Federer in five sets. Rafael Nadal is currently ranked as the World No. He has a total of 88 career titles to his name since taking up Tennis as a professional player in The Debate. Breaking News. This match is considered as one of the greatest of all time. Written By. Federer was the favorite leading up to the tournament but was stunned by Nadal in the finals Speaking on his favorite Wimbledon memory, Nadal mentioned the iconic match against Federer- the best-remembered match of their rivalry, that was played 13 years ago.

Tennis great Roger Federer turns Few tennis matches have ever been anticipated as eagerly as the one that was played on July 6, , when Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer squared off in the Wimbledon final. Federer had been ranked No. They had also faced each other in the previous two Wimbledon finals; Federer had won them both, but in Nadal had pushed him to five sets. In the French Open final one month earlier, he had allowed Federer just four games in a straight-set thrashing.

Each of them came to the Wimbledon final that year with a special motivation. Tears of disappointment and recrimination. He assured him that, at 22, there would be more Wimbledon finals to come. The two of them, bucking the Spanish clay-court tradition, had always made winning this tournament, rather than the French Open, the ultimate goal.

Nadal struggled to believe his uncle that day in , but one year later he found himself back in the same place, with another chance to beat Federer. The first point of the match had given the world an indication of what was to come and who would eventually prevail. He won the next point with a backhand slice, a shot he had been working on in practice.

Then everything changed. Federer thinks it was the rain break that did it. On the other side of the net, Nadal felt victory was so close that he started to reach for it. That fear came back again in the fourth.

Not a fear of losing, but a fear of winning. He earned one championship point, which Federer saved, and then another. Years later, Federer would say that he had only played two perfect points in his life. This was one of them. A backhand down the line.

It was this point, this shot, which gave the match a mythic quality. He played the next point like it is the first point of the match. If the first rain break helped Federer, the second seemed to help Nadal.

We want two winners. At in the fifth, the championship referee, Andrew Jarrett, decided they would play two more games then call it off for the night because of bad light. Serving for the championship, Nadal decided to make his wildest move yet. I had to conquer those nerves right now and the way to do it was to raise my aggression. For the first time in four and three quarter hours of play, he decided to serve and volley.