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Rafa's relentless march to roland garros starts now
Rafa's relentless march to roland garros starts now
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Wesday knew
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almost time to restart the march |
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I don't see him winning as many clay titles this time round, but as long as he wins the big one, Rafa fans will be happy.
Vamos ! |
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 ready....steady....GO |
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Only injury can stop Nadal at the French Open surely
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Did think thiem was his biggset threat at rg but destroyed him today
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Nadal on clay at the moment is like how Mike Tyson was in his heyday.
Opponents are beaten before they step out on court. Yep, the only thing stopping an 11th RG is injury. |
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he's going to stumble soon
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Only if he forgets to tie his laces.
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btw, wasn't he ALWAYS injured, when he lost a match? I can't remember otherwise, it became his habit
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As did making excuses for the biggest losses in your career, said he lost Wimbledon08 because he was scared from the thrashing a month earlier at Roland Garros. Said he was the better player v Delpo at USO09 for 4 of the 5 sets. Lots of subtle classless comments from Fed over the years that the media don't report.
Choosing to miss the French Open for the rest of his career will reflect very badly in years to come, it's not he has no chance. There is no doubt if Nadal wasnt around, he'd never skip the clay season, it's all about avoiding him and keeping the h2h healthy for his legacy status, which is really quite sad tbh. |
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it's not like he has no chance*
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It's only in the mind of those grasping at straws to find sth where Nadull outperforms Fed, that Fed would care about the h2h vs Nadull thinking of his legacy.
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He was just lucky he was born in 1981 and not 1986 when Nadal was, imagine if they were born in the same year, do you really think it'd currently be 20:16 in slams, of course not. And he wouldn't currently hold a record for longest Number 1 either, his decline started when Nadal and Novak came good.
Moreover, imagine if there had been 2 clay court slams rather than 2 hard court slams, the Slam totals would be reversed and then some. The tour is weighted against clay court players and favours those on hard, there are 6 masters events on hard, 3 on clay, 2 slams on hard, 1 on clay, and the World Tour finals is always hard indoords favouring Federer's tennis when really the surface and location if need be, should be alternated. Nadal has a better slam conversion rate in slams - 1 slam win every 3.19 events played, Federer = 1 slam every every 3.6 events played. Nadal has a better Masters conversion rate - 1 masters win every 3.5 events played, Federer = 1 Masters every 4.8 events played And he won an Olympic Gold on hard court, Federer hasn't on either grass on hard. And he's won Not many areas where Federer has outperformed Nadal, and no straw clutching based on all that  If he wasn't for knee problems 6 or so years ago, he wouldn't have had so many first week exits at Wimbledon whereas before hand he was making finals almost every year. |
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there are much more clay court tournaments than on Fed's best surface, grass. In former times, 3 GS tournaments were played on grass, imagine what the GS count would be then
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Nobody likes Grass, it's not real tennis.
Federer likes quick, fast surfaces, plenty of fast hard courts, his style suits it, Nadal's suits clay. I've always said the US Open or Aussie open should alternate between clay and hard at least. |
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train derailed
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like it was v Thiem in Rome last year, we all know what happened next, Nadal dropped the fewest amount of games he's ever dropped at Roland Garros en-route to winning his 10th French Open
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Federer #1 even without playing the clay season
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rafa is going to chin all the mug layers, cannot wait, VAMOS RAFA!!!
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Cooper you're hilarious |
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I try hard I always give mt=y best
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If I have seen Doctor
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will see..how he does in French Open.
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They keep lining them up and rafa keeps knocking them down! |
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never read so much utter garbage as that written on this thread. why can't people just celebrate the fact that we are lucky to witness these great players in the same era rather than constantly trying to bring them down.
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bb66 11 May 18 19:44
Federer #1 even without playing the clay seasonLaughLaugh Don't forget to check the rankings in the morning you feckin' mug |
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That sweaty mug will get beat in the Final! I have it on good authority Robin Soderling is in qualies and will take Nadal out in the second round
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before the final I should have said
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another pretender goes down like like amir khan after getting chinned by canelo |
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Rafa deserves to win 4 you after that comment ! genuinely made me smile
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