Is Federer's 2009 FO win empty?

[DropShotArtist]

Originally Posted by Cup8489

It's really obvious.

Yeah I think so too, just wondering if there is something glaringly congruous between the two trolls.

[kragster]

Originally Posted by DropShotArtist

What's your evidence that JV=Smellyman, other than intuition?

What's my intuition about you who supposedly joined only Aug 2012 but knows so much about forum users, even those who havent posted in a long time. Let me guess, long time lurker but never posted until August 2012. Right

DFTW for the win.

[rajah84]

Originally Posted by smoledman

I'm not going to argue the legitimacy of the win - that's 100%. He beat everyone in front of him including the Nadal slayer in straight sets fairly easily. But we all know that until he beats Nadal at the FO, he will not feel complete.

Nadal owns him everywhere - minus indoors- so his FO win is irrelevant anyway in those regards.

[dudeski]

Originally Posted by smoledman

I'm not going to argue the legitimacy of the win - that's 100%. He beat everyone in front of him including the Nadal slayer in straight sets fairly easily. But we all know that until he beats Nadal at the FO, he will not feel complete.

Silly jackson vile and his troll threads.

[smoledman]

Originally Posted by dudeski

Silly jackson vile and his troll threads.

I'm not jackson vile.

[DropShotArtist]

Originally Posted by kragster

What's my intuition about you who supposedly joined only Aug 2012 but knows so much about forum users, even those who havent posted in a long time. Let me guess, long time lurker but never posted until August 2012. Right

DFTW for the win.

What's DFTW, Kraggy? That is your name isn't it?

[Clarky21]

Originally Posted by kragster

What's my intuition about you who supposedly joined only Aug 2012 but knows so much about forum users, even those who havent posted in a long time. Let me guess, long time lurker but never posted until August 2012. Right

DFTW for the win.

Yep. He was found out a while back.

[90's Clay]

He won it.. But didn't have take the hard route to get it.. But still a win is a win

[Masayoshi]

Federer reached 5 French Open finals and only lost 4 of them because he was playing against the clay GOAT. It seems incredibly obvious that no one deserved to win a French Open (who hadn't already won one) more than Roger.

It even feels very fair in terms of the Rafa-Roger dynamic. Rafa owns Roger on clay, but Rafa's style of play is so physically demanding that you expect him to have some issues from time to time. Rafa wins almost every French Open, which is quite just. However, Roger just kept showing up, doing great, and giving himself the opportunity by making the finals, until one year Rafa didn't bring it (for whatever reason) and got himself knocked out. A well-earned grand slam, I'd say.

Think about it this way: in any other era, Roger making the finals of Roland Garros 5 times would probably have netted him at least two French Open titles.