Comments on: Federer v Nadal — Is the rivalry over?

By: francisco R

francisco R — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:50:44 +0000

perhaps Fed’s reign is over, but Nadal’s also, he can not beat top 8 players any more, next year he wont be able to beat top 15 players, next, top 25, and at 27 years he will be number 74 in the world, and only 7 Slams. Nadal was destroyed by his extreme efforts to be number one for one year.

By: Tommy C

Tommy C — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:34:51 +0000

It’s not over, but the best may be over.

In 5 years time it will be Murray v Nadal…

By: Bobby NZ

Bobby NZ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:15:02 +0000

The reality is – for those who chose to look at it objectively – is that Nadal’s record against Federer doesn’t show the full picture.

It is because of Federer’s amazing versatility and that he gets deeper into clay-court tournaments that he encounters Nadal on Nadal’s favourite surface. But the same does happen the other way around. For the last 4 years straight Nadal has performed poorly in the post-Wimbledon season on hard-courts. It is because Nadal gets knocked out earlier in this part of the season that Federer misses the chance to play Nadal more often on what could be called Federer’s ‘home ground’ court.

As an example consider their career head-to-head. Nadal leads 13-7 which looks pretty dominant for sure.

Clay however is where Nadal picks up most of his wins over Fed – with a 9-2 record…

On hard-courts they are 3-3 (where Federer has won 9 of the last 12 grand slams on hard court, Nadal only 1)

On grass Federer is ahead 2 – 1 (Federer has won 6 of the last 7 slams on grass, Nadal only 1)

Even moreso, in 2008 people were talking about how Nadal was catching up etc in terms of GS performances.. yet Federer is actually still pulling away, having won three slams since Nadal last won one. (injured or not, you have to be there to play – if you’re not it doesn’t diminish the winner’s achievement)

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:04:57 +0000

I’m amazed anyone can claim Nadal is the greatest player of this era, ahead of Federer, as Olivia has above.

Federer is simply incredible.

By: Felipe

Felipe — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:50:38 +0000

Well, it looks like the editorial’s opinion could not
be more wrong and pointless.

Federer won the 2010 aussie title over Murray, Del Potro
and Dokovic both lost track somewhere during the
tournament… All in all, I like the first comment of this list
where the author says that there seems to be a negative
campaign against Federer. I agree with that….

By: eduardo D

eduardo D — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:37:58 +0000

I want to remark one point, Nadal always has had an advantage playing to Federer, his age. He is 4 or 5 years younger, so his wins over Roger were not in equal conditions. What would have happened if both were the same age? Or , what would be the results of matches between a 27 years Nadal versus a 22 years Federer? I believe the statistics would be better for Federer. The same case for the matches Nadal-Agassi, Nadal had the great advantage of being about 14 years younger. I think a 23 years Agassi would beat 80 % of times a 30 years Nadal, and maybe 100% times a 35 years Nadal.
After Nadal crossed the barrier of 22 years, his record against top 7 players is not very good. Last 20 times he has faced Soderling, Djokovic, Federer, Del Potro, Davidenko and Murray (all combined) his record is negative. I think it must be around 5 wins and 15 loss. And let’s wait to see his results when he gets older than 25 years.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:15:52 +0000

I doubt if Nadal will ever recover to anything near his peak performance during 2010.
It would not surprise me if he were to announce his retirement from professional tennis, at the end of 2010.

By: olivia

olivia — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:48:25 +0000

Federer’s reign is over..its time for him to pack up and go….nadal may be the biggest rival of roger but nadal dominates over the court & over federer in a supreme way….nadal is the best player of this era….roger won french open in rafa’s absence..so,much credit cannot be given to him for winning the french open…there’s a serious lack of sportsmanship within roger….he is no good mental strength-not for himself nor for anyone……RAFA RCKZ!!!!!!!

By: rhiannon

rhiannon — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:50:23 +0000

you do love to predict Federer’s demise. In fact you never stop sniping .
prediction – will probably win 3 grand slams in 2010.
go away – we are tired with the negative campaign against federer.

…..and we hate djokovic!!!!and soderling!!!so there!!!