Every tennis fan felt compelled to make a choice in the middle of a recent golden era for the sport. Who was the best: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal?
By 2012, the three horsemen of men’s tennis won everything, couldn’t be beaten by anyone but each other, and dragged the sport into the future with whirling top-spin forehands and impossibly precise backhands. They expanded what tennis perfection could be, and I felt I needed to choose a side in the arms race.
I ultimately chose Federer, the oldest but most successful to that point. He never seemed to get too upset or too excited, the aspirational opposite
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