Rafael Nadal: Roger Federer pays emotional tribute to long-time rival ahead of retirement following Davis Cup swansong

Roger Federer says Rafael Nadal "tested me in manners no other person could" as he honored his previous long-term rival in front of his retirement this month. Nadal, a 22-time Huge homerun champion, will call time on his sparkling vocation which traverses over twenty years at the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga this week. Twenty-time Huge homerun champ Federer, who resigned in the wake of playing pairs with Nadal at the Laver Cup quite a while back, confronted the Spaniard a sum of multiple times across 15 years with their contention being one of the best in tennis. "As you prepare to move on from tennis, I have a couple of things to share before I perhaps get close to home," Federer composed on X. "We should begin with the self-evident: you beat me - a ton. More than I figured out how to beat you. You tested me in manners no other person could. "On earth, it seemed like I was venturing into your lawn, and you made me work harder than I at any point figured I could just to hold my ground. "You made me rethink my game - in any event, venturing to such an extreme as to change the size of my racquet head, expecting any edge."