Nadal will have to play well and hope that the fireworks Verdasco is capable of producing are kept to a minimum - otherwise any talk of destiny is going to seem rather hollow.
It was the end of an era at Crandon Park for the Miami Open last year. From the Lipton, to the Nasdaq 100, to the Sony Ericsson, to the Sony, to the Miami Open presented by Itau, Key Biscayne saw it all.