The top three tennis players in the world – Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer fails miserably in the hand wire loop game at the ATP World Tour Finals 2019 in London.

In an exclusive chat with Sally Nugent at the BBC Breakfast during the ongoing ATP World Tour Finals 2019, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer talked about their respective family, rivalry and their lives respectively. The three goliaths of the sport also played a hand wire loop game which requires some steady hands.

A wire loop game has a metal loop and it is to be taken from starting to ending point along the length of the wire. The metal loop is moved in such a way that it should not touch the wire. Strong hand-eye coordination is required in the game.

Nadal, Djokovic, and Federer also tried this game but unlike on the tennis court, the trio was unsuccessful to pass the game.

World No.1 Rafael Nadal, who had no idea about the game volunteered to try it first. The Spaniard started off well but was not able to turn at the fingertip of the pinky finger as he touched the wire and the alarm ringed.

Roger Federer was next and the Swiss maestro was nervous as he joked, “Is it normal to have sweaty palms already?” – leaving smiles all around. The 20-time Grand Slam champion thought that he has to “get the right grip from the get-go” but he couldn’t even get till the pinky finger and the beep sound came.

Novak Djokovic performed even worse than Federer as he touched the wire right in the start and failed miserably.

Nadal performed certainly the best in between the three as Roger Federer admitted, “Rafa is by far the best so far.”

Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are drawn in the same group along with Matteo Berrettini and Dominic Thiem –  in the Bjorn Borg group at the ATP World Tour Finals 2019. While Rafael Nadal is put with the defending champion Alexander Zverev and debutants Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Andre Agassi group.