Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer share a fantastic rivalry on court and a great friendship off court. The 2 tennis legends love spending time together and exchange ideas on how to improve their beloved sport.
The Spaniard and the Swiss joined the ATP council together a few months ago to add their valuable contribution taking advantage of their extensive experience on tour accumulated during the last 2 decades. Roger “shocked” the tennis world after posting the idea that it is NOW time to act and unite the ATP and the WTA. The 2 organizations have been working together extremely well in the past few weeks when taking the necessary actions to cope with the Coronavirus pandemic. That seems to be a good signal to make a move and start to undertake decisive action to merge the tours.
Apparently, there have been already a lot of talks about this and Rafa replied to Roger’s tweet as follows: “Hey @rogerfederer as you know per our discussions I completely agree that it would be great to get out of this world crisis with the union of men’s and women’s tennis in one only organisation.”
Hey @rogerfederer as you know per our discussions I completely agree that it would be great to get out of this world crisis with the union of men's and women's tennis in one only organisation 🎾👍🏻 https://t.co/fTCfvMiU4G
— Rafa Nadal (@RafaelNadal) April 22, 2020
According to many, tennis legend and WTA founder, Billie Jean King, has always agreed about the merging to tweet: “Agreed! Sign me up to join the team.”
Agreed! Sign me up to join the team.
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) April 22, 2020
Rafael Nadal’s ranking and performance in 2020
Now ranked no.2, Nadal played his last match on the 29th of February when he beat Taylor Fritz 6-3 6-2 in the final in Acapulco to win his 85th career title.
Currently, this year Rafael has a 13-3 win-loss record. Rafael clinched 1 title in Acapulco.
Roger Federer’s ranking and performance in 2020
Currently the world no.4, Roger played his last match on the 30th of January when he lost to Novak Djokovic 7-61 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal of the Australian Open.
Roger Federer’s most significant performance of the present year was reaching the semi-finals at the Australian Open.
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer played each other 40 times. The head to head is 24-16 for Nadal. The last time that they locked horns, Roger Federer won 7-63 1-6 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in London (Wimbledon) in July 2019.
