What year is it again???
Jun. 5th, 2019 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meteordustRoger Federer, Rafael Nadal win at Roland Garros to set up epic French Open semi-final
"If you want to do or achieve something on the clay, inevitably, at some stage, you will go through Rafa, because he's that strong and he will be there," Federer said.
When I got into the RPF side of tennis fandom in 2009, people were writing futurefic. It was about when Roger or Rafa or both had retired, set a few years in the future - maybe 2011, maybe 2014.
Ten years later - TEN YEARS LATER - in 2019, they are still playing grand slams and even still winning and somehow this is real life.
"If you want to do or achieve something on the clay, inevitably, at some stage, you will go through Rafa, because he's that strong and he will be there," Federer said.
When I got into the RPF side of tennis fandom in 2009, people were writing futurefic. It was about when Roger or Rafa or both had retired, set a few years in the future - maybe 2011, maybe 2014.
Ten years later - TEN YEARS LATER - in 2019, they are still playing grand slams and even still winning and somehow this is real life.
