Rafael Nadal's Full Retirement Statement And what a journey it has been. From the sleeveless-kid wonder in 2005 to the elder statesman of 2022, Nadal never once took his foot off the gas.

they could never script a piece of late-night theatre to stand comparison with that Nadal-Federer epic. It was the ultimate rivalry, elevated to a celestial standard. No wonder, when Federer ...