What Did Wimbledon Teach Us About Genius?
Federer, Djokovic — and the debate between specialists and generalists.
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Sunday's tennis championship at Wimbledon between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer lasted nearly five hours, a record. It finished with a 12-12 tie in the final set, triggering a first-to-seven tiebreaker. For tennis fans, it was an epic struggle between legends in a storybook setting. The weather was perfect, and the hats were, however, it was an academic nail-biter, a test case in a simmering war between specialists and generalists.
