Rafael Nadal, 2012 Wimbledon | featured news

Lukas Rosol, ranked 100th, pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the past decade of men’s tennis, blasting his way past Rafael Nadal in the second round at Wimbledon.

After dominating tennis so completely in his mid-20s, Roger Federer has only one trajectory remaining in a brilliant career: downward, as certain as gravity. And even that has been graceful. It’s difficult to pinpoint a skill of Federer’s that has diminished these last two years, in which he slid from No. 1 in the world to No. 3. His movement, at 30, remains fleet and fluid. His serve is shrewdly placed with plenty of pace. And he brandishes a full array of strokes and the smarts to deploy each as circumstances dictate.