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<\/a><\/p>\nTwenty-time Grand Slam champion Federer delivered an intriguing response, specifically saying \u201cmaybe we can create a Fedal Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old Federer, who looks extremely fit, says he\u2019s been playing tennis fairly frequently and would love to reunite with old rival Rafa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not? I love Rafa,\u201d Federer told CNBC. \u201cI played four hours of tennis the other day in LA\u2014here in San Francisco, sorry\u2014and then in LA also another hour and a half. So before that I\u2019ve been playing a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to keep in good shape. And I know that Rafa is totally open to maybe playing some tennis. It sounds terrible, seniors tennis, to us but maybe we can create a tour like a Fedal Tour or something like that. I mean it would be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
The King of Clay won 24 of the 40 matches he played against Federer, who captured seven of their final eight matches, including a gripping five-set triumph in the 2017 Australian Open final. Federer said part of the inspiration for creating Laver Cup was to honor past champion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s also one of the reasons I did start the Laver Cup\u2014to shine a light on the past greats of the game,\u201d Federer said. \u201cAnd maybe a seniors tour, we\u2019ve had a little bit of it in the past, I think it was called The Champions Tour at the time it did exist. I think there\u2019s a lot of appetite for seeing past champions in tennis as well. I could maybe look into that as well with Rafa for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The friends and former rivals recently reunited on the golf course near Nadal\u2019s Mallorca home. Nadal shared these images of their golfing outing captioning his Instagram post \u201canyone ready to take on the two of us?? #Fedal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swiss Maestro Federer, who is in San Francisco for this weekend\u2019s Laver Cup, said the game is in great hands with world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and No. 2 Jannik Sinner, who have combined to collect the last eight straight Grand Slam crowns, leading the charge.<\/p>\n
Federer said the epic French Open final that saw Alcaraz fight off three championship points out-dueling Sinner will go down as a flashpoint in tennis history, signaling the changing of the guard from the Big Three and Serena Eras to the New Two Era.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the French Open, for me, was that match that the game needed,\u201d Federer said. \u201cTo really sort of move on from the post Roger, Rafa, Serena time as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTo truly embrace this rivalry and this incredible shotmaking that Carlos and Jannik have right now. And Novak\u2019s right there as well I think he played four semis in all four majors, which is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, September 19, 2025Photo credit: Rafa Nadal Academy Instagram They faced off 40 times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-169618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}