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In 2006 the late David Foster Wallace wrote a sublime essay called ‘Federer As Religious Experience’.  A competitive player in his younger days, Wallace uncovered something under the surface of what goes on at that top level of individual sport – not in the traditional sense, ie. of scandal, but the wider, fuller meaning that sport, physical movement directed towards some arbitrary goal, does to us and in us.  It’s an astonishing essay.  We’ve accompanied it with a review of the autobiography of Federer’s traditional nemesis, Rafael Nadal.  Nadal’s extraordinary mental and physical strength has unseated Federer from his seemingly unassailable position as king of the men’s game.  The contrasts, however, lie not just in the body but the mind.