MOSCOW, Sep 24 Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal said that with the departure of the Swiss Roger Federer left a part of him. On Friday, the Swiss played the final match of his career, at the Laver Cup paired with Nadal, they lost to Jack Sock and Francis Tiafoe from the USA with a score of 6:4, 6:7 (2:7), 9:11. «With Roger leaving the ATP tour, an important part of me left with him because the moments when he was next to me or in front of me were the most important moments in my life. I was excited when I saw the family, I saw all the people. It's difficult describe, but this is an amazing moment, «quotes the words of the Spaniard The Guardian. Nadal and Federer held 40 meetings, in 24 of them the representative of Spain won. Federer made his professional tennis debut in 1998, earned $ 130.594 million in prize money and set many records. In particular, he was the oldest first racket in the world (36 years old) and stayed at the top of the rankings for 237 weeks in a row. At the Grand Slam tournaments (20 wins), Federer won 369 matches, reached the semi-finals 46 times (23 times in a row) and played 58 times in the quarter-finals (36 times in a row). In total, the Swiss won 111 tournaments under the auspices of the ATP (103 of them in singles), became the Olympic champion (2008) in doubles and the silver medalist of the Games (2012) in singles, and also won the Davis Cup (2014).
