<p>Down Under. First Slam of the year. Aditya and Rahul dive deep into Marat Safin's miracle – and last memorable performance – over an invincible 23-year-old Roger Federer.</p>

Nadal v Federer SF (2005)

They played. We watched. And the journey of the greatest tennis era is as much ours as it is theirs.
We are Aditya Iyer (@adi_iyr) and Rahul Desai (@ReelReptile) – college friends when the era began and writers when the seemingly endless spell of magic was halted, more than half our lifetimes later.
This is 'God, It's Killing Me', a chronicle of nearly two decades of tennis and its impact on our lives, one defining Grand Slam contest at a time.