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Will Federer Ever win the French Open?
What do YOU think? If yes, you are one stubborn fella.
fededer's obstacle to winning the french open these past three years has been nadal. so, if nadal fails to compete in future french open due to some reason, federer will have a good chance of taking home the french open trophy.
Please. Djokovic would have spanked Federer at the French Open the way both were playing. Federer is not the 2nd best clay courter at the moment, unless he re-raises his game drastically, and he only was in the final due to his joke draw of this years French. As todays final proved, he did not really even belong in that match.
i don't know what would be the outcome of a federer-djokovic match. not sure who would come out on top but i don't think it would result in a blowout.
in my view, federer likes the flat balls of djokovic much better then the high topspin balls of nadal. futhermore, nadal's a lefty and that bothers federer even more.
Maybe it's his intimidating physique?
i don't know what would be the outcome of a federer-djokovic match. not sure who would come out on top but i don't think it would result in a blowout.
in my view, federer likes the flat balls of djokovic much better then the high topspin balls of nadal. futhermore, nadal's a lefty and that bothers federer even more.
haha. nadal is definitely a lot more muscular than djokovic
I think this year was Federers best chance to win it, now I think everything is going to go downhill for him (I still think he will take 2 more gs) but he may even lose wimbledon to nadal :shock: especially if you saw the replay of last years wimby today, nadal was shockingly close, a couple of points here and there and it would have gone the other way.
He will when Nadal is injured or retired.
You never know. A lot of the other winners were very unexpected when they did win. However, it is hard to think about it now.
Fed will retire first. If he's injured who's to say Fed is a lock? Joker is a serious threat now and others will become threats in the future. Fed is declining as he gets older, this much we know. If Nadal gets injured I can bet it won't happen during the FO. Maybe the US Open or Aussie, but not during his beloved Roland Garros. He'll play with one leg if he has to. I'd still like his chances even then.
I think this year was Federers best chance to win it, now I think everything is going to go downhill for him (I still think he will take 2 more gs) but he may even lose wimbledon to nadal :shock: especially if you saw the replay of last years wimby today, nadal was shockingly close, a couple of points here and there and it would have gone the other way.
After watching today's beatdown, I'm starting to think his first or second times playing Nadal were his best chances. Not only has he not figured out how to beat Nadal on clay, Nadal appears to have him completely figured out.
Will Federer Ever win the Nadal Open?
There I fixed that for you.
Please. Djokovic would have spanked Federer at the French Open the way both were playing. Federer is not the 2nd best clay courter at the moment, unless he re-raises his game drastically, and he only was in the final due to his joke draw of this years French. As todays final proved, he did not really even belong in that match.
He will when Nadal is injured or retired.
today's match should put an end to this question.
also, Djokovic played better against Nadal than Federer did. therefore, Djokovic would've had the upper-hand against Federer too.
It was music to my ears to hear 5,000 French people be silenced today.
Nope. Clay is a surface for young players. 20-25 is usually the best age for Clay.
Nadal's biggest obstacle to the year end #1 is Djokovic. Djokovic is now the best hard court player in the world and most of the events remaining this year are hard courts. He is less then 100 points behind Nadal after the clay court season. To be honest Djokovic is a huge concern for Nadal for the year end #1, but it could go either way between them.
Fair enough but in the past Federer was strong enough to take Nadal to 4 sets regularly in best 3-of-5s on clay, even with Nadal's superiority on clay and any potential matchup issues. I dont think any matchup problems explain away how much more competitive Djokovic was vs Nadal then Federer. Djokovic at this French Open was just alot stronger then Federer. Maybe if they played it wouldnt have been a blowout, but Federer wouldnt have won a single set. I would bet money on that if a time machine could make it happen somehow.
sorry but im pretty sure federer beat him during the season and he made the final..
Speaking about Djokovic ? I think Fed would switch place with Djokovic right now and take the performance in semis vs Nadal over his performance in finals any day in the week.
No question about that,in fact he would probably take Belucci's perfromance as well(although that was Nadal's first match this year at FO so I guess he wasn't fully in his clay machine mode yet).
Kid is underrated. He had a set point, he was playing excelent tennis and in the third set he fell apart which is expected ( Djokovic and Federer fell apart in the 2nd ). The fact that he went out in the very first round is killing the chance of people talking about him but if he was in any other part of the draw he'd go deeper.
I say undecided because given the right factors he can still do it.
Next year the pressure will be on Nadal to win 5 in a row. By the next FO it's a reasonable assumption to say Federer might just be on 13 GSs. I think Fed will adjust his training to accommodate more and more clay court practice and strategy, if he really wants this title.
In any case, I don't think Fed has to prove to anyone (apart from himself maybe) that he's the best tennis player of this generation, and one of the best (if not the best) of all time.
I say undecided because given the right factors he can still do it.
Next year the pressure will be on Nadal to win 5 in a row. By the next FO it's a reasonable assumption to say Federer might just be on 13 GSs. I think Fed will adjust his training to accommodate more and more clay court practice and strategy, if he really wants this title.
In any case, I don't think Fed has to prove to anyone (apart from himself maybe) that he's the best tennis player of this generation, and one of the best (if not the best) of all time.