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Mailbag: Comparing Federer-Nadal at 2017 Australian Open to 2008 Wimbledon final

The calendar has moved on, but many of your questions remain—understandably—in Melbourne. We’ll take a few more questions this week, off the 2017 Australian Open but then let’s move on, shall we? Too much good tennis being played elsewhere….

As an unabashed Fedophile, I've childishly had a bee in my bonnet about the impact of the fading daylight on the outcome of the 2008 Roger vs. Rafa Wimbledon final...and I've affixed my own asterisk to that match as the greatest ever played. Fast forward nine years to the '17 AO men's final—a match not many of us saw coming.