Who is the greatest sportsman ever?

5 hours match Against Coria in 2005 4–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 6–7(6)
5 hours Against Federer in 2006 6–7^(0–7), 7–6^(7–5), 6–4, 2–6, 7–6^(7–5)
5 Hours Against Verdasco in 2009 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 7-6 (7-2) 6-7

6 Hours Against Novak in 2012 5–7, 6–4, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5

5 hours match Against Coria in 2005 4–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 6–7(6)
5 hours Against Federer in 2006 6–7^(0–7), 7–6^(7–5), 6–4, 2–6, 7–6^(7–5)
5 Hours Against Verdasco in 2009 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 7-6 (7-2) 6-7

6 Hours Against Novak in 2012 5–7, 6–4, 6–2, 6–7(5–7), 7–5

Federer and Djokovic are not clay court specialists whereas Hewitt and Roddick were grass court specialists who Federer defeated on the grass at Wimbledon. Two of Nadal's best years had joke competition.

2010- Federer declining, pre-Lendl Murray and Djokovic whose serve was a mess and registered his first top ten win of the season against Federer in US Open Sfs before facing Nadal who got Youzhny in the SFs. Very tough even got his biggest fanboy in the Wimbledon final who took out his two biggest challengers on his way to the final.

2013- Federer old and injured, Murray injured and Nole being a mental mess. Not to mention another cake US Open draw and an amateur net mistake by Djokovic which helped Nadal to come back in the match. If the competition was really tough Nadal wouldn't have come back from a 7 month injury to dominate in a manner that he did unless if he faked his injury which wouldn't surprise me.

These matches would have been over an hour and a half earlier had Nadal not engaged in his match wasting butt picking tactics.

Nadal himself was a mental mess in 2011 but he recovered won the next 6 or 7 matches against Djokovic. Djokovic is an exceptional Clay courter. Fed and Djokovic are tougher Compeition than Hewitt and Roddick

So 157 in nadal's three longest matches against 183(!!) in isner mahut.




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But are they clay court specialists? Roddick leads H2H against Nole and even beat Nadal in 2010.

And if Federer is a weak era specialist then he is also a weak player so don't use him as to boast up Nadal's competition.

Especially the one against Roger?

If he had played that match against Nole, it would have gone on for 6:30 hours. Federer can finish a service game under 1 minutes whereas Nadal can sometimes take that long between points.

Federer is a brilliant player who had easier Competition than Nadal.

He has OCD hes forced to do rituals he can't even walk on the lines

But if he had easier competition then he is a weak player so was easy pickings for the supposed tough competition (Nadal).
I leave it at that.

He wasn't like that when he started. Check out his matches from 2004.

Lets end the cold war

Federer has good Astrology for the US Open

I hope Nadal and Federer don't come in between our Muslim brother in faith relationship.

25-7.

9-2 vs Fed, 9-3 vs Djok, 7-2 vs Murray

That's an incredible record, there's a very strong argument for him over Federer. About 7 of his wins vs Fed were at the French lol

Tennis is about winning tournaments, not maintaining positive H2H records over other top players.

Otherwise, Federer should just have deliberately tanked in the French Opens to preserve his H2H against Nadal. Only an idiot would think that he'd be a "better player" if he'd done that.

Federer is just being penalised for being the 2nd best claycourter of his generation.