Played tennis yesterday evening at the Fort Lauderdale Tennis Club under perfect conditions: no sun, no wind, and of course no rain. After hitting for an hour and a half we retired to the bar to watch Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, who at that point had been hitting much longer. By the time Nadal broke back to even the fourth set, a small crowd had gathered. Watching these two play is like watching an irresistible force meet and unmovable object.
“Nadal,” said a young man with a curly mop of hair, “is a freak of nature.”
There’s that too.
He won the match.
