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“People always think of us as rivals but he was one of the very few I liked, and even fewer that I respected. He remains the only person I envied.”

Prime versus prime best form versus best form Fed wins every time. Joke only started getting the edge when fed started aging out

Quelle masterclass ❤ Quel taf 🦾 Merci… les frissons sur le final 🤩

But Nole smashed him in the end

Baby wake up Rafanatic droped another masterpiece

Federer he is a maestro on the tennis court, but mostly maestro in his life full of love and humbleness.

Bro, why do you copy my nickname? (I'm not nervous, it's just a question, because my channel is older, even though it's smaller, I hope you understand and answer)

Thanks again for this amazing video @rafanatic22, I really got emotional when you put the flashbacks of the rivalry during their last match ...

Thank you Rafanatic for a great video of my 2 idols. Once a rafa, nowa nole fan but i will alwayssay, with some complaints on rafa, Once a rafan, always a rafan. Miss you rafa! Thank you and miss you 😢😭😭

Novak the EMPEROR ! Novak the GLADIATOR ! Novak the PHOENIX rose against all odds and became the undisputed GOAT of Tennis and wish him stand alongside mohammad ali to become the greatest athlete of all time with time. Man of principle, man who stands up for what he believes is Right. The real man, the rarest of rare man in today's conforming world. 🙏💪

Thanks you so much for the emotions through the documentary, it feel so deep after retired announced of Rafa. It show all his tenacity and his strenght, resilience spirit, so inspiring.

Veliko legendarno rivalstvo, njihovi mečevi su bili do iznemoglosti! Djokovic i Nadal su kraljevi tenisa!

Absolutely goated video - thanks for the documentary!

Thank you so much for this. The amount of work u must have put into making this video is truly remarkable. You deserve many more views. Please keep up the good work and keep making more videos like this.

Rafa Nadal is the GOAT. ❤

This is one of the most ridiculously beautiful video .. man I cried at the end

Insane video

Amazing movie, story, rivarly!!! That stay in my heart forever - but for me the GOAT in small margin is NOVAK DJOKOVIC. Two of them create the best rivarly in history of the sport overall !!!

I hate nole but it would make me have a lot of impress

Great vid and the greatest rivalry. I respect Nadal as a player, but I can't forgive the behaviour of his fanbase till this day. Federer fans were just annoying salty idiots, but Nadal fans took things way too far with the insults. In his whole career Novak never said a bad word, but you guys relentlessly attacked him and his family including his children. In the end it's a sport, you guys should be embarrassed of yourselves

One of the best pieces of content I’ve seen on TH-cam. Thank you rafanatic :)

@rafanatic22 you have done it again my friend. Absolutely phenomenal video. 10/10 editing. The way you tie the narrative together so clearly with brilliant use of flash backs from the past is world class… and your choice of soundtrack for important moments is the best around. Honestly your videos should be a feature length documentary on Netflix or prime. Absolutely the best around. There is no debate about who’s the GOAT of making videos dedicated to tennis history! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

We r talking best in history... this is not a ghetto vs gheto thing...

We r talking best in history... this is not a ghetto vs gheto thing...

Lovely guys true f champions

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What a great video! You always make great and unbiased true videos and capture beautiful moments of players journeys. I really enjoyed this video, and of course I loved their rivalry over the years.

Stellar work, especially at the end where I teared up. They gave us everything. Gladiators, we salute you!

Wow! Wasn't expecting to watch something long at the moment but already through 30 minutes of it. Very impressed with the gathering of so much footage, both on court and interviews (and not having this getting taken down with Roland Garros and Wimbledon content!). Love the storytelling as well between music and video transitions. Excellent work!

Another fantastic video man ! Absolutely amazing ! Realy emotional!

Thank you for this emotional film! It was a rollercoaster over the years between these two. I mean what they’ve done for the sport is quite amazing. All the history between them, all the magic moments will live forever. I am glad that i had the chance to follow the legacy of these two greatest athletes of all time. I mean what can u say more? Tennis was born when Nadal, Federer and Djokovic were stepped out on the court. Thank you very much for every moment u shared with us fans and we will never forget the magic moments u gave us. The rivalries will be missed…

Last 3 minutes just broke me and i started crying It's been 19 years since i started watching tennis and became Rafafan after Rome 2006 final And all i can say is THANK YOU Thank you Big 3 for all the memories, all epic battles, all records, all joy and tears you brought to us Thanks to you three every tennis fan was able to touch greatness and can say with pride - i witnessed the GOLDEN ERA of tennis

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Can’t speak for everyone but I’m sure people of my age bracket that got here on the tennis scene at the onset of the 2010s can attest to the sentiment that there was nothing like Rafole man. For those of us that were late to the party and didn’t get to experience peak Fedal this was it as the THE premiere rivalry for me and going from a kid that woke up at 3 AM in the states for AO12 to someone in my mid 20w now that still felt that special feeling in the air every time these 2 were slated to play all the way to #60 this yr even if we knew winning was probably a pipe dream. That particular passage from 2010 USO to 2014 at the end of Rafa’s prime that you highlighted in your older Rafole vid was one of if not my favorite arc of our man’s career having to scale the mountain again after Fed in another GOAT tier player entering his prime except this time he was the bad matchup for Rafa not the other way around. Even though he got me to a point of never fearing for my fav against any other player like that after 2011, always will look back fondly on that period and have a greater appreciation for Novak for pushing Rafa to dig deeper than I thought possible to hit back considering this was the first guy to come along and be able to go blow for blow with so many of Rafa’s best qualities in whether that was baseline dominance, endurance, or mentally. You can have your critiques about this rivalry like after that point it was too much of each guy just hammering the other on their fav surfaces and that after that time period where it peaked in the 2010s it wasn’t as consistent but boy when this Rafole hit there was nothing like it. Just all out physical and mental war on a tennis court with so much skill and will on display. Fan wars sorta ruined discourse around the rivalry through the 2020s but those of us that lived through it can appreciate the history we lived through. Loved the video(s) now on their rivalry as a full start to finish retrospective on my fav rivalry. Really captured all these details at every stop along the way and appreciate the work you’re doing to keep pushing out such quality and thorough videos that take us back to the good old days despite how hard TH-cam and copyrights can make it for you creators.

Love it, thank youi for putting this together!!!

I was 100% sure to have send a comment yesterday, but apparently no ! Fantastic work mate, the intro is tremendous, setup very well the storytelling ! I like the way you used musics and audio mixing is close to perfection. And it's funny how this rivalry is perfect to introduce Carlos ;) This rivalry was so great for tennis because it was close so many times. I'm curious to see how Rafa's retirement will impact Novak (Roger's one was for Rafa, never came back after, even if the principal issue was physical), now that he has done everything, if he's able to find the extra spirit to win Slams again. Congrats again for this masterpiece.

❤ merci pour ces beaux moments ! Superbe travail ! Forever Rafa in my heart ! I will miss him so much !!!!❤

Thank you for another wonderful video!

EPIC! This was flippin' E - P - I - C - ! I have only watched Rafa's retirement video once. Seeing just the very opening of that announcement, again, stirred up emotions. It is still raw. I miss him so much. We all miss Rafa from this game. Thank you, Rafanatic, for making this. I don't know what you have planned, for future videos, but I will miss these Tributes to Rafael Nadal. I wish you the very best in your future endeavours. Thank you. Thank you. Thank Y - O - U.

Great video as always, it's much appreciated! It's so sad that Rafa's career as a top player finished in that Wimbledon 22 QF against Fritz, he was on a roll but after that injury Rafa was never really competitive again...

Victory belonged to the brave, all i can say. Great video. Novak Djokovic is the GOAT, and you are the GOAT of tennis tribute videos. Nadal, well, i said everything what i think about that guy, doesnt matter any more. I know you are his big fan, and power to you. But i think this rivalry could have finished way better than it did, still each man choses its path and reponds in front of all mighty god in its own way. In the end, no one escapes. And justice gets served one way or another. Nadal, and Federer were the steps and motivation Novak needed to have to become the man he was destined to be, a goalpost to chase, so thanks to Fedal for that i guess. And thanks to them and most of their fanbase for being dicks towards Novak as well, when Novak needed their support the most, as that to motivated him even more to reach even greater heights 😂 Anyway, cheers 🖐

Brilliant work! Thank you for this video. You are one of the best editors on the tennis subject. I always feel excited when I watch your videos. Also, I miss Rafa so much. Love the era when we watch the matches between Djodal or Fedal. Greatest era in tennis history.

Thank you for this epilogue, what unforgettable memories, another masterpiece with its many flashbacks, its emotions, its epic battles of these 2 Giants of tennis.

Rafa will always be my favorite to watch. I’m trying to think of the right word to describe how I’ve felt without him being in the heart of tennis anymore. I think the word is lonely. I miss him in a way that makes tennis different for me. The anticipation, excitement, energy, the exhilaration of the unexpected, every aspect of both his game and his personality added something no one else can bring to a tournament. The players are still great, each person adding his own skills and gifts to the atmosphere and greatness is displayed on the courts. It’s still fun and my favorite sport to watch. But tennis has never been the same for me without Rafa. Thank you for the video. You always do such good work. ❤️

Nadal was a snake at the AO 2022 I will never forget that. But I know that it was karma that a half year later he was so injured that he could never recover. His obsession was to be the GOAT and he thought at the FO 2022 that he had done it but he was so wrong. Novak has showed in the 2023 season who the real and only GOAT is and since then Nadal is so salty it's so great to see!

Thanks so much for these videos. I didn’t get a chance to watch it yet (NFL playoffs now), but I’m sure it’s GREAT like your other videos I do find it crazy that you already have a 90 minute video on this rivalry & now another 70 minutes while you just have a 30 minute video for Federer and Nadal

Thanks for this video !

Ohhh very nice !

Thank you. This is a masterpiece. Always Rafa. ❤️

When djokovic said he thought he could win against nadal in 2006 french open quarter final, he was being dead serious.