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The # of tournaments metric is not too accurate because at many times of the year there are up to 3 small tournaments running at the same time, all of which might be the same surface and would be essentially equivalent to one big tournament.

Was it after that point that Fed got pretty mad and started playing way better? There was a point like that in the third set, soon after which he did a sampras-like dunk smash.

Actually, looking at last year's results, Nadal was the only one out of the Big 4 to do the same.

http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2014/08/33/Cincinnati-Friday-Federer-Murray-Raonic.aspx With the win today, Raonic became the only player this year to make the QF or better at 6 of the masters tournaments this year. That's great news for him, but in my opinion, it really speaks more...

And thus still a former champ

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xihn33_part-1-roland-garros-2009-final-federer-vs-soderling-full-match-hd_sport This is part 1, links on the side should lead to other parts.

Kinda like what 2003-2009 looks like without Federer, a bunch of murray to djokovic level players instead of what actually happened.

Its more the fact that until ~10 years ago, USA was used to Americans picking up majors all the time on men's side. So to now have no slam winners and a bunch of journeymen is a big change.

Since 2009 AO though...

He said 5 biggest, and the WTF is the 5th biggest.

GGL is in no way relatively unknown. Probably one of the hardest first round opponent a top 4 seed could have gotten imo.

Not sure if this has been posted before, but this is a pretty fun draw challenge that they have. Join this group and make your picks soon, before all the first round matches are over. http://www.myrolandgarroscup.com/?parrain=79em3qh&groupe=9084&password=3Q1FU > Group number : 9084 > Group...

Very interesting way of putting it

Voted Fed as I really want him to win, but honestly it's still Nadal's tournament to lose. Sure he has had a sub par clay season (by his massive standards) but he is still a beast on clay and even better in best of 5 on philippe chatrier with the massive back court. Hope for some really...

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Not that I disagree with the idea that Nadal's is better, but your logic seems to imply that Federer's "comeback" was more impressive, as Nadal was still young and well and Federer no longer had those expectations. Just saying.

This time last year Wawrinka was best known for giving Djokovic a crazy match at the 2013 AO, now look where he is. Maybe not this year or the next, but soon enough we will have to get some new winners. Top 4's dominance has already weakened some.

Making the quarters of the French would just be playing 1 round past his seed though, so not too bold. But I also think that he can do it.

If its the last 3 years we are talking about the Djokovic-Nadal era. Nadal has been a way more dominant force than Murray in the past 3 years.

Chang is considered from the U.S as he was born and raised in the U.S. even though is he of Asian descent.

What if he had beat Kuerten? Would Fed have won the grand slam? :) But on topic, I agree, never seen so many wasted matches.

^ Nice stat, year looking better and better for Fed. Especially after the horror that was 2013.

A post in another thread by underground really got me thinking about how Fed is doing this year. So far he has 2920 points in the race. Here are the points that he had coming into the 2nd Clay masters in the past: 2006: 5150 2007: 3200 2008: 2130 2009: 2100 2010: 2315 2011: 2170...

Federer could do the same and it would mean a lot more :twisted:

He's currently ranked 229 in the world http://live-tennis.eu/

Djokovic is 10-9 in finals vs Nadal http://www.atpworldtour.com/Players/Head-To-Head.aspx?pId=N409&oId=D643

Are you trying to say that he should lose weight, or that he has lost weight?

He's actually 3rd in the race, but 5th in the rankings.

I think its because in big matches again Nadal, he has done poorly. One match I think he was like 1/17 or something insane. No way he was winning less than 1/17 of normal return points, so I think that this is why.

He means the period when he did not hold any slam titles.