Any player ever said Nadal is the best player of all time?

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Originally Posted by NadalAgassi

Indeed, all do, except for Rod Laver, the one GOAT candidate with a truly unblemished record with no flaws.

except that :

the best players were missing in the amateurs and then the fields were extremely small in the pros ...don't say that the full fields don't matter , because laver was defeated by drysdale - hardly a top 10 player ..... @ the USO in 68 .... even he was prone to upsets ....

poor performance in the majors after 69 ....

didn't win the WCT in 71 or 72 ....a title he really wanted ...would be atleast some sort of "compensation" for poor performance in majors after 69 ...

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Originally Posted by TheFifthSet

Federer was closing in on Rafa's ranking even BEFORE the injury -- if we accept that Rafa's injury was exruciatingly debilitating at the time he played Rosol, it still doesn't matter much -- if it took only one tournament in which Rafa was injured for Federer to surpass Nadal as number two and Novak as number one, then obviously the injury didn't play that big a factor and it wasn't that big of a gap. If Nadal defended his points he STILL woulda lost the ranking to Fed if Fed reached the final and won (that's IF), so even if he was at 100% it was imperative that he performed well.

nadal was not injured physically when he played rosol ....the only thing that was injured was his pride ...

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[Povl Carstensen]

Originally Posted by NikeWilson

Well, the first half of those Slams he won was during a time where the field was very weak. It was a time where Andy Roddick was his #1 foe.
It was a time where Hewitt and Safin and old Agassi were also of his toughest opponents. None of these guys are comparable to a Prime Nadal, a Prime Djokovic, or even a Prime Agassi and Prime Sampras.
Federer was very lucky to dominate during a time where tennis was at a very low point.

31 year old Federer at nr 1. now deflates that argument.

[tudwell]

Originally Posted by NikeWilson

Well, the first half of those Slams he won was during a time where the field was very weak. It was a time where Andy Roddick was his #1 foe.
It was a time where Hewitt and Safin and old Agassi were also of his toughest opponents. None of these guys are comparable to a Prime Nadal, a Prime Djokovic, or even a Prime Agassi and Prime Sampras.
Federer was very lucky to dominate during a time where tennis was at a very low point.

Why are you such a Nadal hater? Nadal was a slam champion from 2005 onward, and you consider that a weak field? Shame on you.