PARIS — After a false dawn in Indian Wells, Calif., three months ago, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are well and truly set to renew their rivalry.

It has not been as edgy as Federer’s with Novak Djokovic, not as prolific — nor as routinely draining — as Nadal’s with Djokovic.

But Federer-Nadal — or Nadal-Federer if you are respecting Nadal’s 23-15 head-to-head edge — has been transcendent just the same.