{"id":253473,"date":"2024-11-20T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/20\/federer-hails-nadal-epic-career\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:02:57","slug":"federer-hails-nadal-epic-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/20\/federer-hails-nadal-epic-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer Hails Nadal &#8216;Epic&#8217; Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>FLASHBACK: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer says Rafael Nadal \u201cmade the whole tennis world proud\u201d during his \u201cepic career\u201d as he paid tribute to his former rival before his retirement<\/p>\n<p>Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, will bring an end to his illustrious career aged 38 after representing Spain at the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga this week.<\/p>\n<p>Federer, who retired in 2022 with 20 Grand Slams, won 16 matches and lost 24 \u2013 including an epic final at Wimbledon in 2008 \u2013 in the 40 times he faced Nadal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you get ready to graduate from tennis, I\u2019ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional,\u201d wrote 43-year-old Federer on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s start with the obvious: you beat me \u2013 a lot. 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You challenged me in ways no-one else could.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federer added that Nadal made him \u201creimagine\u201d his game, to the extent that the Swiss changed the size of his racquet head.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLASHBACK: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer \u00a0 Roger Federer says Rafael Nadal \u201cmade the whole tennis world proud\u201d during his \u201cepic career\u201d as he paid tribute to his former rival before his retirement Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, will bring an end to his illustrious career aged 38 after representing Spain at the Davis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federer Hails Nadal &#039;Epic&#039; 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