Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played Audiobook (Free)

In the 2008 Wimbledon men’s final, Center Court was a stage set worth Shakespearean drama. Five-time champ Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the utmost dominant player in the history of the game. He simply needed to cling to his trajectory. Therefore in the last few moments of daylight, Center Court witnessed a coronation. Only it wasn’t a crowning for the Swiss heir obvious but also for a swashbuckling Spaniard. Twenty-two-year-old Rafael Nadal prevailed, in five models, in what about Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played was, based on the author, ‘essentially a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennis-a festival of skill, accuracy, grace, strength, speed, endurance, determination, and sportsmanship.’ It had been also the encapsulation of a fascinating rivalry, hard fought and of historic proportions.

Strokes of Genius deconstructs this defining instant in sport, using that match as the backbone of a provocative, thoughtful, and entertaining look at the science, art, psychology, technology, strategy, and personality that go into a single rugby match. With vivid, romantic detail, Wertheim re-creates this epic battle within a book that’s both a report of the mechanics and art of the overall game and the family portrait of a rivalry as dramatic as that of Ali-Frazier, Palmer-Nicklaus, and McEnroe-Borg.