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Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties or toughness. Many sports teams and athletes have showed resilience while playing whichever sport they play, but recently, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal played against each other in the U.S Open Finals.

Towards the beginning of the match, Rafael Nadal won the first set 6 to 2. During the second set, Djokovic showed resilience by winning the set 6 to 3. He worked hard during the third set but failed to win, and Nadal won 6 to 4. Nadal showed resilience by quickly recovering from the third set. During the fourth set, Nadal wins the set 6 to 1 and claims first place for the U.S Open Finals in New York.

Both Djokovic and Nadal showed resilience, but Nadal showed more resilience because first of all he won. Secondly, he recovered quickly after losing the second match to Djokovic, and he did that by winning the third and fourth set. Djokovic showed resilience during the second set by winning after he lost the first set to Nadal, but didn’t recover himself afterwards. He was smoked by Nadal, and I personally think he was slacking off because he can play way better than how he did in The Finals.

Nadal currently holds second best tennis player in the world, and has been in the top five since 2003. He has won 13 grand slam titles, one Australian Open, eight French Opens, two Wimbledons, and two U.S Opens. This isn’t the only time hes’ showed resilience, and will show more in the long run.

Djokovic currently holds first best tennis player in the world, and went on to win 43 consecutive matches in 2011-the only player in the world to achieve such a run. He has seven grand slam titles, four Australia Opens, one French Open, one U.S Open, and one Wimbledon. Although he didn’t show much resilience in this match, he has showed it tremendously before and will continue to show it in the future.

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