I guess it’s a nice change-up,’ Federer said. ‘OK, it doesn’t allow a rematch for the Australian Open final here, you know… but I think it’s good for tennis that it changes up a bit.’
Nadal said a match with the Swiss is always ‘special’ regardless of their ranking.
‘The ranking is important, but when we talk about a player who won 16 grand slams and I won 10 and we played a lot of matches between each other, and all in very important moments for our careers and very high moments,’ he said.
‘But for everything, for what the match represents, all the matches against him are special and will be special even if we are 20 against 25,’ he added.
‘He’s playing fantastic and he had a fantastic end of the season last year. So he’s coming with confidence. It will be a very, very difficult match for me, and I will try,’ he said.
‘I know I will be on court playing against probably the best of the history, playing well. So obviously my only way and my only chance to win is play aggressive, play very well, and to play to the limit’
Can’t wait!
