Any Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal clash is must-see television. But the 2006 Internazionali BNL d'Italia final must rank among the highs in their 29 FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings to night out.
Nadal, aged 19, underlined this aura of invincibility on clay, by recording his 53rd straight win on the outside, to tie Guillermo Vilas' recognise, and draw level with Bjorn Borg with 16 titles being a teenager.
Nadal, the assisting champion in Rome, rallied on three occasions with the deciding set. From some 2-4 deficit; when they saved two championship points at 5-6, 15/40, and when you get again at 3-5 inside tie-break.
His 6-7(0), 7-6(5), 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5) triumph, which took five days and five minutes, was his fifth win in six matches next to Federer and ensured that it will live long inside memory.
Both players have got since established a competition with current World Simply no. 1 Novak Djokovic. Nadal leads Djokovic 19-15 within their FedEx ATP Head2Head series, while Federer leads Djokovic 16-13 general.
Djokovic, Federer and Nadal are three of the 16 year-end No. 1s honored in the ATP Heritage Program, launched this year to help celebrate the 40th year in the Emirates ATP Rankings.
Between 1978 along with 1981, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe played 14 matches, with each winning key. Their 22-minute, 34-point fourth-set tie-break in the 1980 Wimbledon final is iconic.
Ivan Lendl and McEnroe fulfilled on 37 occasions, that is definitely an Open Era file. McEnroe won six health of their seven clashes in 1984 - with the height of their competition, but Lendl finished by using a 21-15 mark overall.
Jimmy Connors compiled a 13-22 record against Lendl, was 14-20 against McEnroe in addition to was 8-15 against Borg.
Two great grass-court performers Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, exactly who memorably contested the 1988-1990 Wimbledon finals, met 35 intervals (Becker 25-10), while 07 of Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras' 34 contests came in title deciders between 1990 together with 2002.
In ATP Country Tour history, Federer and Nadal have contested a list 19 finals, followed as a result of Lendl and McEnroe using 18 championship matches and Becker-Edberg, Agassi-Sampras and Djokovic-Nadal with 16.
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