<p>September 11. An emotional day for America. At Arthur Ashe, one of America's favourite sports sons, Andre Agassi, age 35, takes on upcoming Swiss legend Roger Federer in the US Open final. A rare instance where Federer was the blue-blooded enemy. &nbsp;</p>

Federer v Baghdatis (2006)

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.