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    What are the good takeaways from Fedal H2H rivalry?

    I Ok mate. You win. Federer was never in a better form than Nadal when they met and when they met Nadal never raised his level but played at the same level as he played against other opponents.
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    What are the good takeaways from Fedal H2H rivalry?

    Again, you may have a different perspective but Nadal was not at his best in AO 2012, 2014, Miami 2011 ...
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    What are the good takeaways from Fedal H2H rivalry?

    My comment was more on the relative form of Nadal in the tournament and not the form he showed in the match with Federer. More often than not in the earlier rivalry, Nadal always upped his game against Federer.
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    Why Andy Murray failed to come a ATG?

    Plus Wawrinka defeated him outside of Finals as well in the slams. To me the Wawrinka Djokovic rivalry can be divided into 2 parts. One a Bo3 rivalry which is completely dominated by Novak 15-2 (The 15 are consecutive). But then there's the Bo5 which stood at 6-4. Out of the 6 that Stan lost...
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    What are the good takeaways from Fedal H2H rivalry?

    The thing about early Fedal rivalry was that no matter what form Nadal came into the match with Federer, he would more often than not find a way to beat him. In AO09, Nadal could have lost to Verdasco in the SF. I am sure if that would have happened people now would be hypothesizing that since...
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    Why Andy Murray failed to come a ATG?

    Ofcourse Murray is closer to Big-3 than Wawrinka. But Wawrinka is much much closer to Murray than Murray is to Big-3
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    5-0 at the YEC = Major

    This left me wondering for a while that how come Michael Jackson = MM ... :laughing:
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    Will Federer and Nadal win more grand slams?

    The need to keep mentioning the other player while asserting being satisfied with your own hero's career is self contradictory. That just shows that the robot is in your head and you are trying to convince yourself that all is well :)
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    Will Federer and Nadal win more grand slams?

    To be clear I was not commenting on one particular fanbase. It is true for all. But I do find your self righteousness quite amusing. You speak very convincingly on behalf of your brethren comprising of users on an internet forum whom you have never met, seen, talked to ..... A good coping...
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    Will Federer and Nadal win more grand slams?

    Fanbase of a player is more concerned about how much other player has won rather than their own.
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    Karatsev : Not a single person in the crowd supported me

    For anyone having difficulty understanding what pot calling a kettle black means, this should really help
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    One of the most unfair points ever

    Not saying footspeed was not the contributor. But if you see some of the points, even on the forehand side Nadal struggled against the flat backhand (of course aided by the new racket). Few weeks back I was watching highlights of AO-14 final and found similarities between how Wawrinka dealt on...
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    One of the most unfair points ever

    9 out of 10 shots to Federer's backhand. Kind of summarized their earlier rivalry. People attribute the turnaround of the H2H at the *** end to Nadal losing footspeed, but if one just compare this rally against some of those rallies in AO-17 (esp in the fifth set) it is clear that once that...
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    Fedovic was a better rivalry than Djokodal/Fedal

    If you ask me which was a better matched rivalry, it was definitely Federer vs Djokovic. Federer Nadal rivalry was clearly plagued by match up issues where Federer constantly struggled against the top spin forehand to his backhand. So much so that ultimately the mental aspect began playing a...
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    The career inflation era argument is utter propaganda

    Apparently, it is only a propaganda when Nadal benefits out of it.
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    The career inflation era argument is utter propaganda

    If I was you, I would take one of the two advices below: 1. "Don't argue with fools. They bring you down to their level and then beat you by experience" 2. "Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it" There's no point in engaging with someone who keeps moving the goal...
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    Unpopular opinion

    Better is not a winner always. The slam race is prime example, no?
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    Prophetically Toni: "“Rafael, we have a problem"!

    Since my college days I was made aware that solving Navier Stokes equation precisely would immensely help in predicting accurately the weather patterns. Didn't help a dime in solving it.
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    RIP 4-3 2-1, bud

    And how do you suggest Djokovic could have ensured that?
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    RIP 4-3 2-1, bud

    So what would have been better? Djokovic to lose or to not play because it is a so called weak field? And speaking of draws - what about USO 2017/19 AO 22? The only non clay slams Nadal won post 2013 ... In the end you beat who is in front of you. And before you bring it up - No, 2004-07 was...
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    Is it weird to be a mega fan of a player who is younger than you?

    So basically a time will come when you are fan of no one in sports?
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    Have people finally understood how gigantic the difference between an amazing player and a mediocre generation like this one is?

    I understand where you are coming from. But frankly, if we start using the same twisted logic that idiots use to support their case, that ends up making us look idiot. As I mentioned in my other post, weak era is a BS concept. It is just a narrative built by one fanbase to have a go at other...
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    Have people finally understood how gigantic the difference between an amazing player and a mediocre generation like this one is?

    If I listen too hard I may hear 2003-06 as well. It is all BS - just a tool for one fanbase to come at other.
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    Have people finally understood how gigantic the difference between an amazing player and a mediocre generation like this one is?

    With the same logic can we then say that Federer won his last 3 slams because Djokovic was on decline at that time? In my view year 2011 domination of Djokovic when Nadal had not declined and Federer was not "old" simply puts to bed these arguments. What criticism are you really suggesting...
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    Have people finally understood how gigantic the difference between an amazing player and a mediocre generation like this one is?

    This putting up of an arbitrary milestone of turning 28 in May 2015 and looking at slam record from just before and ignoring the one immediately after is confirmation bias. If you really want to see his record till 28, see it till May 2016 because he was still 28 before his 29th birthday and his...
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    Have people finally understood how gigantic the difference between an amazing player and a mediocre generation like this one is?

    An honest question. Why do you look at this stat till he turned 28? Federer and Nadal swept 6 slams from AO 2017 to FO 2018. So why should we not include till at least 2018 to see his record in finals. While there is no question that Novak is benefitting from keeping himself fit and motivated...
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    Djokovic and Federer are not in the same tier with the difference in achievements.

    The problem with only using mathematics is that the above would result in: Djokovic - Federer > Murray
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    Alcaraz is currently very close to Big 3 level

    Spot on. And that match going to 4 sets was more to do with the match up advantage that Nadal had against Federer rather than being good on grass. Federer had lost 4 times that year already to Nadal and you could see some tentativeness coming in his play in set 2 and set 3 when Nadal started to...
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