Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal succumbed tamely to Roger Federer at the Shanghai Masters after dominating the field to make the finals.

Roger Federer still has a chance to finish the year as the world number one after beating Nadal in the final of the Shanghai Masters.

Former British number one Greg Rusedski believes had Roger Federer not been injured in Montreal, he would probably be leading the race for world number one over Rafael Nadal.

Federer is now the only man who can prevent Nadal from finishing the year as the world's number one on the ATP rankings.

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will face each other for the fourth time this calendar year as they meet in the final of the Shanghai Masters on Sunday (15 October).

Federer and Nadal booked their places in the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters with wins over Richard Gasquet and Grigor Dimitrov respectively.

Ex-coach Mark Petchey says the competition from Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka has made Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer even better players.

Federer is fresher than the other players going into the final weeks of the 2017 season after taking a nine-week mid-season break.

Former French Open champion Yannick Noah believes the future stars of tennis will be hoping for Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to retire so that they can start to win more titles.

Roger Federer is 2360 points behind Rafael Nadal in their fight for the year-end number one ranking with four tournaments left to play.

Roger Federer admits that getting to 100 ATP titles will be special, but is mainly focusing on remaining healthy for the rest of the campaign.

Roger Federer has refused to rule out playing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games ending any talk about potentially retiring in the near future.

Annabel Croft believes Rafael Nadal's decision to let his body recover has paid dividends as the world number one won his sixth title of the year after his recent China Open win.

Rafael Nadal won his sixth title of 2017 beating Nick Kyrgios in the final of the China Open and now has one more trophy than Roger Federer in 2017.

Andy Murray's ex-coach Miles Maclagan believes it will take quite a while for the next generation to emulate the success of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

Andy Murray has been urged to follow Federer and Nadal's example in terms of scheduling tournaments when he returns to action in 2018.

Carlos Moya has warned against writing off Djokovic after the Serb ended his season early due to injury.

Nadal can extend his 1960-points lead at the top of the world rankings over Federer by reaching the latter stages of the China Open.

Alexander Zverev says he must mirror Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal's insatiable desire to improve as motivation to kick-on after an encouraging 2017 season.

Federer and Nadal have played each other on 37 occasions while Borg and McEnroe faced each other 14 times.

The future stars of tennis have underperformed in Grand Slams.

McEnroe praises the comebacks of Federer and Nadal.

Federer says there was always 'enormous respect' for each other despite being rivals.

Federer and Nadal featured in doubles action with each other for the first time ever.

Nadal was seen advising Roger Federer during his match against Nick Kyrgios.

Nadal is currently 3 behind Federer's 19 men's singles Grand Slam title record.

Nadal and Federer have won five titles apiece including two Grand Slams each in 2017.

Federer has lost just four times in 43 matches in 2017 winning five titles along the way.

Nadal has finished as a runner-up on two occasions in London.

Nadal achieved the men's singles number one ranking for the first time since July 2014.