Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played

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Overview

In the 2008 Wimbledon men’s final, Centre Court was a stage set worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. He just needed to cling to his trajectory. So in the last few moments of daylight, Centre Court witnessed a coronation. Only it wasn’t a crowning for the Swiss heir apparent but for a swashbuckling Spaniard. Twenty-two-year-old Rafael Nadal prevailed, in five sets, in what was, according to the author, "essentially a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennis—a festival of skill, accuracy, grace, strength, speed, endurance, determination, and sportsmanship." It was also the encapsulation of a fascinating rivalry, hard fought and of historic proportions.

In the tradition of John McPhee’s classic Levels of the Game, Strokes of Genius deconstructs this defining moment in sport, using that match as the backbone of a provocative, thoughtful, and entertaining look at the science, art, psychology, technology, strategy, and personality that go into a single tennis match.With vivid, intimate detail, Wertheim re-creates this epic battle in a book that is both a study of the mechanics and art of the game and the portrait of a rivalry as dramatic as that of Ali–Frazier, Palmer–Nicklaus, and McEnroe–Borg.

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When Roger Federer arrived at the 2008 Wimbledon finals, 13 Grand Slam titles under his belt, tennis fans around the world knew that they were watching the most dominant player in the history of the game. Only one man, 22-year-old Rafael Nadal, stood in his way. What transpired, as Sports Illustrated senior writer L. Jon Wertheim deftly notes in this book, was a 4-hour, 48-minute demonstration of "skill, accuracy, grace, strength, speed, endurance, determination, and sportsmanship." Welcome to the Golden Age of Tennis, up close and personal.
Mary Jo Murphy
What we most likely knew before opening the book was the title match itself, the gentlemen's final…at Wimbledon. We knew its likable protagonists, its trajectory, its feats, its outcome, its brilliance. If we didn't, chances are we wouldn't be reading about it. We wouldn't care about having the match replayed for us, stroke by magnificent stroke, on paper. But that is what Wertheim sets out to do, because singular sporting events sometimes require a written record, preferably an elegant one…Here is where you lay the flowers to mark the memory of awesome. Here is the tattoo that says Rafa-Roger Forever. In this sense the book undoubtedly delivers.
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Could there have been more on the line when No. 1 ranked Roger Federer attempted but oh-so-narrowly lost to arch nemesis Rafael Nadal in 2008 when he sought to capture a modern-day record sixth consecutive Wimbledon title? Sports Illustrated writer Wertheim provides a comprehensive and thoroughly engaging look back at the nearly five-hour epic center-court contest, excelling at the details that support his claim of "greatest match ever played." The decisive moments in the five-set marathon are expertly retold, and the match statistics box is a welcome addition. Wertheim's informative backstories behind the clash itself and the contrasting personalities of "delicate, brush-stroking impressionist" Federer and "dogged, free-wheeling abstract expressionist" Nadal should convince readers that this drama-filled and high-quality duel of tennis titans gives the historic 1980 Borg-McEnroe final a well-earned run for its money. Recommended for sports and general collections.
—Howard Katz

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780547336947
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 6/1/2010
  • Pages: 271
  • Sales rank: 450,120
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

L. JON WERTHEIM is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of five books, including Blood in the Cage , a chronicle of the rise of mixed martial arts, and Running the Table , about a bipolar pool hustler named Kid Delicious, which has been optioned for film by Tom Hanks's Playtone and is currently in development. His work has been featured in The Best American Sports Writing numerous times.

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