First published in Spanish as "Sin red: la historia detrás del duelo que cambió el tenis" (Buenos Aires : Random House Mondadori S.A., ©2015).

"Since 2004, two names have dominated men's tennis: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Each player is legendary in his own right. The Spanish Nadal is the winner of sixteen Grand Slam titles, including five consecutive French Open singles titles from 2010 to 2014, and is the only player ever to win Grand Slams for ten straight years. Federer, from Switzerland, has spent over three hundred weeks of his career ranked as the number-one player in the world and has won twenty Grand Slam titles and two Olympic medals. But neither player's career would have been nearly as successful without the decade-long rivalry that pushed them to rise to the peak of tennis excellence. Nadal and Federer have met thirty-eight times over the course of their careers and have shared the distinction of being ranked the two best players in the world for an astounding 211 weeks in a row from 2005 to 2009. In Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, international sports journalist Sebastián Fest uses information gleaned from his numerous interviews with both players over the past decade to narrate the rivalry, and its impact not only on the players, but on the sport itself"--Page 4 of cover.