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Say hello to Roger Federer. It's the opposite of what tennis was about to say to him.
Federer beat Rafael Nadal 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 Sunday to win the World Tour Finals in London. It wasn't a major championship, and every last condition favored Federer. It also wasn't even noticed in the U.S. on an NFL Sunday.
But it was a big moment for tennis, anyway, even bigger for Federer. He is 29 now, and Nadal is the best player in the world.
What Federer did Sunday, the whole week really, was to show that he's still here for the fight. Tennis needs that fight. It needs the Federer-Nadal rivalry, the best individual rivalry in sports.
Until Sunday, Nadal owned Federer. It wasn't so much a rivalry anymore as the rise of one, the decline of the other. A rivalry requires not only someone hitting, but also someone hitting back.
Federer finally hit back Sunday. And this is not to welcome him back so much as to ask what took him so damn long. "I guess I had to regain confidence," he said. "That only comes through winning matches."
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