Nadals Clay Dominance vs. Federer's Grass Dominance

[serve/and/volley]

From examining the stats on Nadal's clay dominance:
- http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=195188

and Federer's grass dominance:
- http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=195327

I find some striking similarities:

Nadal's clay stats from from 2005 Monte Carlo through 2008 Barcelona QF:
Matches won: 101
Matches lost: 1
Match winning percentage: 99.02%
Sets won: 231
Sets lost: 26
Set winning percentage: 89.88%

Only players to have taken multiple sets off of Nadal:
- Federer: 8 sets
- Coria: 3 sets
- Hewitt: 2 sets

Federer v. Nadal on clay:
1-8 head-to-head
Won 8 sets out of 28: 28.57%
(Nadal won 20 sets out of 28: 71.43%)

Federer's grass stats from 2003 Halle through 2007 Wimbledon:
Matches won: 55
Matches lost: 0
Match winning percentage: 100%
Sets won: 142
Sets lost: 16
Set winning percentage: 89.87%

Only player to have taken multiple sets off of Federer:
- Nadal: 3 sets

Nadal v. Federer on grass:
0-2 head-to-head
Won 3 sets out of 9: 33.33%
(Federer won 6 out of 9: 66.66%)

[gj011]

Nadal. 10 chars.

[mfischer]

here is a good article featuring Sampras opinion about Nadals clay court performance

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...h/?eref=sircrc

[Nadal_Freak]

Nadal easily clay dominance. Fed is almost done.

[BigT]

Nadal gets the nod. The clay court season is much longer and demanding. Grass season is what...2 tournaments?

[fastdunn]

i think fed's 5 straight season is bigger than nadal's 3 straight, currently.

[Gizo]

In my opinion Federer's hardcourt domination from the Masters Cup 2003 - Masters Cup 2007 tops both his own domination on grass and Nadal's on clay. Hardcourts are easily the most dominant surface nowadays, and there is many, many times more strength in depth on hard, than either clay or grass. Most of the current generation play hardcourt tennis on clay and grass anyway.

[veroniquem]

Sorry but 101 is more impessive than 55. If Roger can double his number then I'll be equally impressed and if he gets to 100 with 0 match lost, I will definitely be more impressed. Hopefully it won't happen because Rafa will finally manage to snatch one this year! (and make my dream come true in the process...)

[edberg505]

Originally Posted by Nadal_Freak

Nadal easily clay dominance. Fed is almost done.

It didn't take a genius to figure out who you'd vote for.

[quest01]

Nadal has obviously accomplished more on one surface compared to Federer. The clay court season is much longer with more tournaments being played so Nadal should be held at a higher level then Federer in this regard because of the length of the clay season compared to grass.

[[d]ragon]

tough choice, i like both players but i voted nadal because hes had almost double the amount of matches fed has

[boredone3456]

I said Nadal...although both are amazing achievements the clay court season is much longer and potentially more draining, and the fact that nadal can do what he does on the dirt so continously is amazing. Much credit to fed...but Nadals just takes it for me

[Vision84]

Grass because Federer would be much more dominant if there were grass events.

Grass is harder to dominate on because the points are so short so favor players who are really in the zone and it is hard to maintain this level than on clay. Sampras said something to this effect. Grass also welcomes much greater variety than clay.

[fer]

I voted for Nadal s dominance, he has won more matches and clay is more physically demanding.

[zagor]

I'm leaning towards Federer's record because he won five Wimbledons in a row while Nadal still has three in a row but losing 1 match out of 100 on clay is just insane so I'll just go with both.

[willgonase10]

Nadal wins...KO!?!?!?

[Tempest344]

Can't compare
there are a lot more clay tournaments than grass

[latinking]

Nadal has more wins because of the length of the season his record is sick. Fed has got 5 grass slams which is just crazy.

Both very impressive! We are all lucky to see both these guys.

[BlahDow]

Both are amazing but i'll give Nadal thumbs up here...100+ wins and the only loss coming to the #1 player in the world.

[deme08]

The field of players are much stronger on Grass than Clay. Hardly any decent dirtballers these days, except Fed/Nadal. On grass you have Djokovic, Roddick, Nadal, Gasquet, just to name a few. Fed's competition is better that makes his record more impressive.