I cried too! Im a Rafa fan but they are are amazing.

Imma have to play the “Federer and Nadal can’t stop laughing” UKposts video again. This And that capture fedal off court well

After such glorious careers, Rafa v Federer ended in friendship. That's what sport is all about.

I watched them play for more than 20 years against each other and was the happiest person in the world whenever they played against each other...I'm a Federer fan and I didn't start crying until I saw Rafa cry after the match...then it all came down...because Rafa is the only person in the world who know how that rivalry felt and he described it perfectly....there will never EVER be another ROGER FEDERER the G.O.A.T. the legend,maestro,the king, the one and only mister Roger Federer!!!!!!!!! I have never cried so much over the end of someones career...but Federer is literally tennis in my dictionary...and I watched a lot of tennis over the last 20+ years...Federer,Nadal,Đoković,Murray,Wawrinka,Čilić,Del Potro,David Ferrer,J.C.Ferrero,Nalbandian,Roddick,Safin,Ljubičić, Davydenko and so many others...that were the times of best tennis not today's "players" so with Federer,Nadal,Murray and Đoković will end the best era of tennis ever!!!! I don't think any of us will ever see so much talent in the same era...

God bless them. Good hearted ppl no show off..humble with all the money in the world

Maybe comparable to Evert Navratilova

Honestly, at the core of their rivalry and friendship is love and respect. When you love someone, you feel a loss of a part of yourself when they go.

I'm happy for Roger and Rafa. Throughout the years being a Swiss fan it was always tense, due to the sport, but outside it these two gave us happiness. I am only happy both Fed and Rafa won so much. Also, we saw some amazing tennis.

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Maybe the most loved rivalry, but certainly not the best. Rafa and Novak is the best rivalry (quality wise) that we have ever seen in tennis. Nadal dominated Federer until basically the last 2 years of their rivalry when Fed improved the h2h a bit... All that aside, its really emotional seeing them together one last time. Novak is the BEST player ever, but Federer might be the greatest ever, his influence is unmatchable. There will never be another Roger.

Well said. Like cristiano and Leo

Best rivalry history in tennis Djokovic and Nadal Nadal and Federer are emotions

@@Bachda1727 totally agree and this rivalry happened first so that always holds more weight and nostalgia. Also, now that roger was first to go and retire out of the 3 (maybe 4…Andy lol) his retirement will be more sentimental and will overshadow the retirements of the other two when they decide to hang the rackets. That’s how things go whoever does something first the second time never feels the same

No. The best rivalry is nadal vs Novak

when did they say that?!

More than friendship ❣️💕

I must have missed that…

@@jemand8462 rafa did an interview on spanish radio two days ago where he talked about how roger and his relationship evolved and how they valued their personal relationship more than their professional one

@@Ash_rn08 do you know what Spanish radio the interview was on? Would love to try to find it!

be realistic. He has literally zero problems holding it together here - compared to before on the court.

I reckon Federer was zoning out of parts of the conversation, I think to avoid getting emotional. I do it watching emotional movies when I don't want tear up in front of the missus 😂 2 greatest along with Novak in men's tennis.

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Rafa cried of joy when Federer finally won FO in 2009

There are none in any sports or games except these two. Fedal are just incredible.

Exactly. The rest of team Europe didn't actually cry like Rafa. They cried in phases, when certain occasion tugged their heartstrings. Rafa cried, alongside Roger, sometimes even sob more, from start to finish. Pretty shocking, but understandable considering what they went through for the last 20 yrs

I'm a Rafa fan, but I cried too. Didn't expect that eighter.

I wished delpo and ferrer did not have to go alone. It was painful to watch delpo putting his yellow headband on the net and ferrer leaving his red headband at the T. Esp felt bad that ferrer never got a slam being a great player. Coming that from Rafa proves he was good but just unlucky to be at Roger’s era. Thankfully the French people gave a great send off to tsonga.

Roger Federer𓃵’s retirement takeaways: 1. Embrace hard work 2. Conduct your life with class 3. Retire at right time 2. Ultimate greatness is when competitors cry for you 3. Rivalry in the court and close friendship both are possible 4. Men can cry- vulnerability is greatness

Too emotional

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he almost sounds like he feels like he's a big brother. it was very touching

Or like a parent outliving a child, that never feels right, ever. He sounded that way as well, also I agree that as a big older brother as well, you feel it's only right that you go first.

@@dansby37 it shows a deep love, for sure -- for the sport, and towards the other guys.

Yes, validated Rafa’s sad tears of losing a ‘brother’.

We need a lot of recovery time before Rafa retires. Rafa, are you listening?

Mine belongs to both. Started with just Roger (well, really, started with Bjorn) and then I grew to love Rafa as well. Amazing tennis players and such lovely people. Very touched to see how deeply they both felt last night. ❤

Yeah there's always toxic or jealous fans, or say, they just forgetting how long the history for one match that actually a beautiful gift of saying goodbye. I do never understand some fans always fight to put goat title when they all already included, indeed.

As soon as the match was over, it meant nothing. Was not at all what was important. It was so that Roger could retire on court, with Rafa and the team to soften the blow and let Roger feel less anxious like he'd have been going through it all alone.

More than a friendshippppp 😜

I keep watching it over and over and it still cracks me up biggest fan of Roger but Rafa not far behind Roger will always be the etiquette of tennis and it will never be the same without him 😢😢❤❤

Novak Djokovic Included, what these 3 have done for Tennis is irreplaceable.

The Big 3 did something that never happened before. 3 players with 20+ grand slams! Roger, the best Grass court player of all time. Rafa, the best Clay court player of all time. And Novak, the best Hard court of all time. Who is the goat will be subjective but they are all 3 the goat for me. I'm a Rafa's fan but I can that acknowledge what Roger and Novak achieved is just as big as what Rafa did.

When all 3 retire Tennis Lovers would certainly miss a lot, but the Game Tennis 🎾 would move on.

Roger is forever

I'm 34 y.o man and I'm sobbing

Yes same here! And then Nadal nodded his head in agreement. I love when people are secure enough to admit being vulnerbale, and also that sometimes vulnerability is good.