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On his way to winning the first of his six French Open titles, Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in the semifinals of the 2005 tournament, their first meeting in a Grand Slam event. Since then the participants in tennis' most thrilling rivalry of the modern era have faced each other a remarkable eight more times in Slams, all in finals.
When Federer slipped to No. 3 in the world by last year's French Open, the possibility existed that he and Nadal would play only the penultimate match at the last three Slams in 2011. But the tennis gods apparently deemed that the draw would continue to play out in the manner to which we had become accustomed, and as luck would have it, Federer continued to be placed on the opposite side of the draw.
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