That was a far cry from when former NYSE CEO John Thain announced the exchange's deal to become a public company in 2005 at a member's meeting after regular trading ended at 4 p.m.
This was the earliest the pair had met inaregular tournament since 2004, when Nadal won their first meetingin the third round of the Sony Open Tennis in Miami.
The need to avoid complacency is aregular theme at every Davos meeting - but this was the first in five years that there seemed a genuine risk of it breaking out.
He has suffered a number of injuries over the past few years, most notably a rotator cuff problem in 1997, and does not think his body is capable of meeting the demands of five-day cricket on aregular basis any longer.