I totally understand, as a neutral 3rd party watching that match it was one of the most exciting matches I have ever seen. As a Federer fan it was probably the worst match possible. It would be like in 04 if the Flames were up in Game 7 against the Lightning and then the Lightning scored with 10 seconds left and won it in OT. I hope to never have that happen to Nadal for the rest of his career. How Federer recovered to finish the year pretty strong I will never know, if that happened to me I would be broken and never recover.
The 2017 AO Final was so painful because he was up a break in the 5th and if he closed it out, he would have 20 Slams and Fed would be on 19 now. Plus it was in Australia where he only won once, he could have been the first man in the open era to complete the double Grand Slam.
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