Novak Djokovic’s Clash with Rafael Nadal Will Be Fitting End to Season

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Published: November 11, 2013

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In a year-end tournament that is supposed to pit the most dominant players of the season against each other, it's only appropriate that the two men who have lapped the rest of the field meet in the final. 

Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet in the ultimate match of the ATP World Tour Finals in London because...of course. 

Both men have been otherworldly in 2013. 

After missing last year's U.S. Open and this year's Australian Open with knee problems, many wondered if Nadal would be the same player upon his return. 

All he did was win six of his first eight tournaments before thundering through the French Open in vintage Rafa fashion. All he did was dominate the North American hard-court series, winning in Montreal and Cincinnati before taking home his second U.S. Open title.



All he did was win a career-high five Masters 1000 events. All he did was win a tour-best 10 of 17 total tournaments (counting the current one), making a career-high 14 finals in the process. 

All he did was return to No. 1 in the world, churning out an all-around season reminiscent of Djokovic's 2011 or Roger Federer's 2006 (or '05 or '04). 

What he has accomplished after his setback has been nothing short of robot-like, stringing together a career year coming off a significant injury like his name was Adrian Peterson. 



Then you have Djokovic. You could make an argument that this was the Serb's worst season in the last three years, but that speaks more to his dominance in '11 and '12 than anything else. 

He began the year, as has become custom, with a win at the Australian Open, rolling through Stanislas Wawrinka, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer and Andy Murray—four ATP World Tour Finals qualifiers—in the process. 

Although he ran into the buzzsaw that has been Nadal at Roland Garros and in Ne...
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