<p>In a tournament for the ages, a 20-year-old man from a small island nation next to Greece reaches his first and last Grand Slam final, only to run into a 24-year-old World no. 1 in his 7th Grand Slam final. But it's not smooth sailing for Roger Federer; Marcos Baghdatis is the people's hero.&nbsp;</p>

French Open 2006: Nadal v Federer

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.