The most astonishing bit of the story about the Federer/Nadal match comes in the statistics
Total points won: Federer 204, Nadal 209
Barely 2% of all the points played made all that difference
The clue lies in the more impressive sounding 31% to Nadal versus only 8% to Federer. The difference between 4 & 1 out of the 13 break points each had to convert
Federer blinked first
A lot of us wanted him to be Gary Cooper in High Noon
Nadal is just the new Clint Eastwood