Rafa is 22-2 in his last 24 ATP finals

mehdimike

mehdimike

Hall of Fame
During this period, he only lost to Roger at 2017 Shanghai and Novak at 2019 AO.
4-0 vs Thiem
3-0 vs Medvedev
3-0 vs Tsitsipas
3-1 vs Novak
1-0 vs Wawrinka
1-0 vs Zverev
1-0 vs Anderson
1-0 vs Nishikori
1-0 vs Norrie
1-0 vs Kyrgios
1-0 vs Fritz
1-0 vs ARV
1-0 vs Cressy
0-1 vs Roger
 
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adil1972

Hall of Fame
mehdimike said:
During this period, he only lost to Roger at 2017 Shanghai and Novak at 2019 AO.
4-0 vs Thiem
3-0 vs Medvedev
3-0 vs Tsitsipas
3-1 vs Novak
1-0 vs Wawrinka
1-0 vs Zverev
1-0 vs Anderson
1-0 vs Nishikori
1-0 vs Norrie
1-0 vs Kyrgios
1-0 vs Fritz
1-0 vs ARV
1-0 vs Cressy
0-1 vs Roger
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first of all WOW for nadal

2nd, pls provide the link to above data
 
DSH

DSH

Talk Tennis Guru
titoelcolombiano said:
Credit to Moya, Rafa has been more consistent and more willing to try new things under Moya. Uncle Toni was fantastic and the team made the right choice to hand over to Moya for the latter years of his career.
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The change should have been made a couple of years earlier, I think.
What do you think about it?
:unsure:
 
titoelcolombiano

titoelcolombiano

Legend
DSH said:
The change should have been made a couple of years earlier, I think.
What do you think about it?
:unsure:
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You are probably right there, but I really can't complain about how it's worked out so far. I just love how Rafa is using his incredible skills at the net more these days, it really is exposing the younger players. Solving the Djokovic puzzle on hard courts would be a nice bonus too ;)
 
Mainad

Mainad

Bionic Poster
Does anyone else think 2022 is turning out like 2013 for Nadal? In 2013 he returned to the tour after a 6 month absence and almost immediately started winning nearly everything in sight! After his injury layoff last season he has started dominating 2022 almost in similar fashion!

Whatever the nature of Nadal's injuries they are never career-threatening or he just wouldn't be able to do this.
 
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Heliath

Rookie
Mainad said:
Does anyone else think 2022 is turning out like 2013 for Nadal? In 2013 he returned to the tour after a 6 month absence and almost immediately started winning nearly everything in sight! After his injury layoff last season he has started dominating 2022 almost in similar fashion!

Whatever the nature of Nadal's injuries they are never career-threatening or he just wouldn't be able to do this.
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Didnt Nadal miss the 2013 Australian Open and started losing in Viña del Mar?
 
Mainad

Mainad

Bionic Poster
Heliath said:
Didnt Nadal miss the 2013 Australian Open and started losing in Viña del Mar?
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Sure, he had a slightly rusty start but did at least make the final of Viña del Mar. After that he won almost everything he played that season. Incidentally, Horacio Zeballos (whom he lost to in that final) is the only guy apart from the other Big 4 to ever beat Nadal in a claycourt final.
 
ibbi

ibbi

G.O.A.T.
The current 11-0 run he's on is a pretty nice one. Wondering how far he can go, and if he'll pass his own record of 14. Also just goes to show how ridiculous Roger's record is.
 
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Ray Mercer

Hall of Fame
Mainad said:
Sure, he had a slightly rusty start but did at least make the final of Viña del Mar. After that he won almost everything he played that season. Incidentally, Horacio Zeballos (whom he lost to in that final) is the only guy apart from the other Big 4 to ever beat Nadal in a claycourt final.
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Zeballos will love telling that to his grandkids one day.
 
BeatlesFan

BeatlesFan

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Indian Wells high bounce and slow court speed may extend Rafa's winning streak. His beginning of the year is looking like Roger's in 2017 when he was also.35.
 
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zuluzazu

Hall of Fame
BeatlesFan said:
Indian Wells high bounce and slow court speed may extend Rafa's winning streak. His beginning of the year is looking like Roger's in 2017 when he was also.35.
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Actually its eerily similar to Fed's 2018 winning Ao and Rotterdam. In 2017 Fed lost to Donskoy. I really hope that Nadal's 2022 does not turn out like Fed's 2018.
 
T

TMF

Talk Tennis Guru
DSH said:
If it weren't for 'Fedovic, Nadal would have already surpassed a little-known Swiss player's record of winning 24 consecutive finals.
Stuff of legends, yes!
:cool:
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When my idol can't match Federer's insane records, insert "if, but, woulda, shoulda"
 
Mustard

Mustard

Bionic Poster
DSH said:
The change should have been made a couple of years earlier, I think.
What do you think about it?
:unsure:
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In hindsight, yes. I think Toni was the one who eventually decided during 2016 that something had to change, i.e. that he wasn't the man to take Rafa forward anymore. Toni called Moya, Moya wanted to see Rafa to see if Rafa still had the strong ambition to win majors again, and then Moya joined the team. In hindsight, it perhaps could have happened sooner, but sometimes you need the tough times to recognize the need for change. Also, Moya had been working with Raonic before.
 
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IgoatFerlkeVogus

IgoatFerlkeVogus

Rookie
Ray Mercer said:
Zeballos will love telling that to his grandkids one day.
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Everybody will love telling to their grandkids that the 2 so-called GOATs & so-called greatest hardcourt players cried like a baby in despair for failing to win a gold medal on Hardcourt at the Olympics after desperately trying many time. Just heart breaking also to tell their grand kids that at those Olympics., they ranked at no.1, facing no GOATs and in a weak era too. What more can anybody do to help them to win a gold medal on the hardcourt? my suggestions:
Not allow top 200 players to play
Give many walk overs to the final
play in-door
or just grab a medal give it to them
 
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Sampras-Bruguera 1993

Legend
Unless Djoker gets back to top form and can play, its not out of the realm of possibility, Nadal could legimitately win the calendar slam this year, as long he doesn't overplay
 
The_Order

The_Order

G.O.A.T.
TheNachoMan said:
He just broke Federer’s biggest record tho.
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He's literally complaining about the same thing that he's been doing... you could swap Federer's name with Nadal in his sentence and it's a carbon copy of his own behaviour.

The guy's a fraud... he's too embarrassed of his idol's records to post that list of his now...
 
Sudacafan

Sudacafan

Bionic Poster
mehdimike said:
During this period, he only lost to Roger at 2017 Shanghai and Novak at 2019 AO.
4-0 vs Thiem
3-0 vs Medvedev
3-0 vs Tsitsipas
3-1 vs Novak
1-0 vs Wawrinka
1-0 vs Zverev
1-0 vs Anderson
1-0 vs Nishikori
1-0 vs Norrie
1-0 vs Kyrgios
1-0 vs Fritz
1-0 vs ARV
1-0 vs Cressy
0-1 vs Roger
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With a bad foot. Wow!
 
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