Wimbledon 2007: Follow the Men's Final Between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal With Our Live Game-by-game Report

The toss Is conducted in the presence of the UK's youngest blind-dog owner and, rather embarrassingly, the coin hits the dog on its way to the ground. Federer calls correctly - would you expect anything else? - and will have a bat. Sorry, will serve.

Warm-up The pair walk out onto court - Nadal, short and stocky, dressed in his customary sleeveless t-shirt and three-quarter length shorts/trousers; Federer, long and languid, decked out in his white trousers and jacket. In fact, Federer is so revered in these parts that he even has some lackey to carry his rackets to his chair for him.

Preamble Borg v McEnroe, Ali v Frazier, Bird v Johnson, Prost v Senna, Nicklaus v Palmer ... Federer v Nadal? Last year the Swiss and the Spaniard became the first men's duo to contest the French Open and Wimbledon finals in the same year, and this season they've achieved the same feat. From recent evidence there seems little reason why they cannot continue in this vein for the next four or five years and build one of sport's all-time great rivalries.

Federer is, of course, dominant on grass - he is gunning for his fifth successive title today; Bjorn Borg, on Center Court at the moment, is the only other player to have managed this in the past 100 hundred years - but Nadal has stated that holding aloft the Wimbledon trophy is his ultimate ambition, and he's a man who usually gets what he wants. Will he get what he wants today? You know what, I have a feeling he just might.