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

Author:
L. Jon Wertheim
Read by:
Edward Bauer
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Book
4
Narrator
2
Release Date
August 30, 2019
Duration
7 hours 3 minutes
Summary
In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Center 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, Center 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.



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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Profile Avatar Elaine S. Jun 2022

Irreplaceable!!

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jun 2021

Fascinating and enlightening... even so many years after the events of the book took place. A must read/listen for even the most casual of tennis fans.

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

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

Author: L. Jon Wertheim
Read by: Edward Bauer
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