Appreciate the video, but getting pretty tired of the "Novak did way better on clay than Fed against Nadal, Novak is the only one who made Rafa dig deep nonsense". If this were a final and Nadal's foot was firmly on the gas it would have been a 4, 2, and 2 blowout and nobody talks about the match besides how ridiculous Nadal was. Novak did play very well at the end of the third, he didn't disappear like Federer did, but Nadal still let him back into the match with some errors, if he hadn't, there's really nothing Djoker could have done. Same thing happened in the first set of the 07 semi, where Nadal was up a double break. Federer could have easily scavenged a few more games anyways in the 08 final if he wasn't kamikaze-ing the net. He knew from the baseline his chances of losing were 100% so he tried to change things up more, to disastrous results.
To the general point, last I checked, only one of these guys had match point against him in a B05. Let's not let Novak facing generally inferior versions of Nadal on clay in his own prime cloud our memory. Federer beat a mediocre Nadal on clay both times he faced him, Djokovic just faced that version way more times, thrice in 15-16 alone. If we're talking just 08 Nadal, let's not forget how competitive Fed was in their MC and Hamburg matches despite choking left, right, and center. 08 RG and 07 MC (although the first set was pretty tight) are the only ass-kickings Federer got against Nadal on clay from 05-11 and people act like it was a regular occurrence. Twice in 7 years and 14 matches, all in Nadal's prime/peak. Djokovic got destroyed twice in 2012 alone and three more times in 2007 and 2017, granted he wasn't in the best form due to his grandfather's death in 2012 and not in his prime on clay in 2007 and 2017, but even Federer in 2010 and 2011, past his prime, put up 3 competitive showings against Nadal on clay.
