Best of 2011
By winning the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals, Federer channeled Mark Twain and declared, as so many have so often in the past, that, “rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.” That performance included a savage beatdown of career rival Rafael Nadal, and it earned back the No. 3 ranking Federer had surrendered a few weeks earlier to Andy Murray.
Worst of 2011
Going into the Miami tournament, Federer had lost to just one man all year—Novak Djokovic, against whom the Mighty Fed was 0-3. And while Djokovic was developing into the story of the year, the Federer/Nadal rivalry was still a major narrative in men’s tennis. Thus their semifinal night match at Crandon Park was a highly anticipated event. But Federer barely showed up and played one of his worst matches ever against a top player at an important tournament, bowing to Nadal, 6-3, 6-2.
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