Best of 2011
It’s pretty simple for Nadal. Whatever the winds of fate blow his way and whatever anyone else does, there will always be Roland Garros. Nadal won it for the sixth time this year.
Worst of 2011
With an ever-growing amount of ground to make up on Novak Djokovic, Nadal traveled to North America for the summer hard-court season—and promptly lost to Ivan Dodig. His only consolation was that the final two sets both were crap-shoot tiebreakers.
The Last Word
There’s nothing wrong with Nadal that a slight drop in Djokovic’s level of play could not cure. Rafa took a serious psychological beating this year (and he’d be the first to tell you that), so the real question for 2012 is how he’ll respond. This year, he expressed an eyebrow-raising degree of disillusion and, basically, professional fatigue. They may be as big an enemy for him as Djokovic is, although this time around the pressure will all be on the new No. 1.
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