To be invested in a sporting rivalry is to experience moments of pure feeling. It leaves fans intimately connected to the sport, through the very visceral emotions of excitement and disappointment.
For the past two decades, a match-up that has left most tennis fans transfixed is the one between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Simply known as ‘Fedal’, it is one of the most idealised and sentimental of rivalries; a convenient binary that has sustained men’s tennis with the right amount of suspense and energy.
