On Sunday, the usual day off at the Wimbledon, the finest players of tennis got together at the practice court of All England Club.
For four consecutive years, none other than Federer and Nadal could compete for the position of number 1 and 2 respectively in men's tennis.
With a combined win of seventeen out of eighteen Grand Slams at a stretch, the duo of Federer and Nadal stands way above the rest.
In spite of being on the first and second position, the rivalry among them seems like a faded one, as they took on each other almost one and a half years ago.
Much like Nadal, Serena Williams stands tall at the top according to the new world rankings.
She set a record of eighty nine aces this year, after winning all fourteen sets at the All England Club.
With a winning record of five out of eight Grand Slams, she is one of the two women who ever got to two major finals in that period, the other one being Dinara Safina.
After making an exit in the second round during the French Open this May, she took off from Wimbledon due to a major back injury.
Unfortunately Venus, elder sister of Serena William who is now at thirty, is still to win a single grand slam and went down to number four according to the new world ranking.
Meanwhile, Nadal holds the top ranking in the men category of tennis with a victory in five tournaments since April.
Sadly, besides losing the top rank, Federer dropped to the third rank this time according to Monday's ratings.
To utter shock after winning the major for sixteen times and making to twenty three successive semifinals of Grand Slam, Federer lost twice at the quarterfinals of the major successively.
The record of Bjorn Borg winning the Wimbledon and the French Open in the same season was broken after 27 years in 2009 by Federer and twice by Nadal in 2008 and now.
After an easy win of 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 over Tomas Berdych this Sunday, Nadal was confronted about chasing the record of Federer in the Grand Slam.
The twenty four year old Nadal commented back that he considers eight more Grand Slam titles to be too hard for him.
At a very young age of twenty four, Nadal has already bagged as many major titles as Andre Agassi, Ivan Lendl and Jimmy Connors when they bid tennis farewell plus he keeps getting finer at what he does best.
Although his serving was thoroughly criticized before, Nadal's fierce forehand totally compensates for his not so popular serving.
The previous conceptions about his serving faded even more when he recovered all of the four break points versus Berdych.
The fantastic accumulation of 14-4 edge was much facilitated by his fierce forehand.
Actually a left hander, Nadal used to consider himself as a righty.
Initially, he made use of both of his hands to hit shots off both backhands and forehands.
But gradually, he figured it out that it was high time he stuck to one.
In order to make up for the only title that is absent from his resume, the US Open championship, Nadal has decided to take some time off to get his injured right knee fixed.
This tournament commences from thirtieth August this year.
Once he makes through the US Open, he will be joining the winner's league of Agassi and Federer who possess career Grand Slams.
One of the only nine ladies who have received this title, Williams has already bagged thirteen Grand Slams which are six ahead than any other active participant of women's tennis.
Navratilova has rightly commented that Williams is head and shoulders above others.
For four consecutive years, none other than Federer and Nadal could compete for the position of number 1 and 2 respectively in men's tennis.
With a combined win of seventeen out of eighteen Grand Slams at a stretch, the duo of Federer and Nadal stands way above the rest.
In spite of being on the first and second position, the rivalry among them seems like a faded one, as they took on each other almost one and a half years ago.
Much like Nadal, Serena Williams stands tall at the top according to the new world rankings.
She set a record of eighty nine aces this year, after winning all fourteen sets at the All England Club.
With a winning record of five out of eight Grand Slams, she is one of the two women who ever got to two major finals in that period, the other one being Dinara Safina.
After making an exit in the second round during the French Open this May, she took off from Wimbledon due to a major back injury.
Unfortunately Venus, elder sister of Serena William who is now at thirty, is still to win a single grand slam and went down to number four according to the new world ranking.
Meanwhile, Nadal holds the top ranking in the men category of tennis with a victory in five tournaments since April.
Sadly, besides losing the top rank, Federer dropped to the third rank this time according to Monday's ratings.
To utter shock after winning the major for sixteen times and making to twenty three successive semifinals of Grand Slam, Federer lost twice at the quarterfinals of the major successively.
The record of Bjorn Borg winning the Wimbledon and the French Open in the same season was broken after 27 years in 2009 by Federer and twice by Nadal in 2008 and now.
After an easy win of 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 over Tomas Berdych this Sunday, Nadal was confronted about chasing the record of Federer in the Grand Slam.
The twenty four year old Nadal commented back that he considers eight more Grand Slam titles to be too hard for him.
At a very young age of twenty four, Nadal has already bagged as many major titles as Andre Agassi, Ivan Lendl and Jimmy Connors when they bid tennis farewell plus he keeps getting finer at what he does best.
Although his serving was thoroughly criticized before, Nadal's fierce forehand totally compensates for his not so popular serving.
The previous conceptions about his serving faded even more when he recovered all of the four break points versus Berdych.
The fantastic accumulation of 14-4 edge was much facilitated by his fierce forehand.
Actually a left hander, Nadal used to consider himself as a righty.
Initially, he made use of both of his hands to hit shots off both backhands and forehands.
But gradually, he figured it out that it was high time he stuck to one.
In order to make up for the only title that is absent from his resume, the US Open championship, Nadal has decided to take some time off to get his injured right knee fixed.
This tournament commences from thirtieth August this year.
Once he makes through the US Open, he will be joining the winner's league of Agassi and Federer who possess career Grand Slams.
One of the only nine ladies who have received this title, Williams has already bagged thirteen Grand Slams which are six ahead than any other active participant of women's tennis.
Navratilova has rightly commented that Williams is head and shoulders above others.