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Rosol ends his tennis career. He shocked Nadal, won two tournaments and the Davis Cups Link „ It all ends once and this end is harder than any other. It was not easy to reach this decision at all, every professional athlete will understand, “ was written on Thursday on his Instagram by Lukáš...

Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal 6-1, 7-5 in the Cincinnati semi-final, 2008 on hard court Djokovic would go onto win lose the final to Andy Murray. The two would meet again shortly after in the Olympics semi-final in Shanghai, with Nadal winning en route to the title. The result broke Nadal's...

Jeff Sackmann has looked at how sensitive ATP players are to surface speed. Checking it against common sense, aka as well-known players, it seems very plausible. The article is highly recommended. Player Sensitivity Novak Djokovic 8.7...

I ranked all of the big 3 individual seasons based on the achievements alone, without taking their opponents into account. If you're all about the competition then I've also got a thread for that...

Carlos Alcaraz beat Rafael Nadal 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 in the Madrid quarter-final 2022 on clay Alcaraz would go onto win the title for the first time, beating defending champion Alexander Zverev in the final. Nadal would win the French Open shortly after Alcaraz won 73 points, Nadal 71 Serve Stats...

Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Rafael Nadal 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in the Madrid semi-final, 2019 on clay Tsitsipas would go onto lose the final to Novak Djokovic. This was his first win over Nadal, who would go onto win the French Open shortly afterwards Tsitsipas won 87 points, Nadal 93 Serve Stats...

I have some really old threads I started about this I'd rather not unearth due to other content. Plus it's time for a fresh discussion after Novak's latest failure which like Federer he had two bites at the apple. The Curse 1926-Bill Tilden fails to defend his USO title for a 7th consecutive...

https://www.tennis.com/baseline/articles/rafael-nadal-roland-garros-winning-babolat-racquet-up-for-auction One of Rafael Nadal’s Roland Garros winning racquets is up for auction Racket from the 2007 French Open

Federer: - USO 2014 SF vs. Cilic: 3-6 4-6 4-6 - RG 2008 F vs. Nadal: 1-6 3-6 0-6 Nadal: - AO 2019 F vs. Djokovic: 3-6 2-6 3-6 - USO 2009 SF vs. Del Potro: 2-6 2-6 2-6 Djokovic: - RG 2020 F vs. Nadal: 0-6 2-6 5-7 - USO 2021 F. vs. Medvedev: 4-6 4-6 4-6 What are some others? Especially during...

Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2 in the Indian Wells semi-final, 2008 on hard court Djokovic, who had recently won his first Slam at the Australian Open, would go onto win the his first title at the event, beating Mardy Fish in the final. Nadal was the defending champion, having beaten...

Checked out the draw of the 2007 French Open and noticed that Rafa defeated Del Potro, Hewitt, Moya, Djokovic, and Federer to win the title. Obviously Del Potro, Djokovic had not won a slam yet, but Rafa beat 3 Grand Slam champions and former #1s on way to the title and 5 eventual Grand Slam...

As Roger Federer became the new number one in February 2004 and as we will have a brilliant returner as number one during February 2024 a simply poll question came to my mind. What did they have in common? Did they produce a simple numerical outcome which seems to be a floor to get to the very...

Jannik Sinner's brilliant final run of 2023 has cemented his status as one of the very best (indoor) hardcourt players. In fact according to Elo only Djokovic is, slightly, ahead of him. Big success on clay has eluded him despite the perception of him was quite different in 2021 when Jeff...

Jannik Sinner's brilliant final run of 2023 has cemented his status as one of the very best (indoor) hardcourt players. In fact according to Elo only Djokovic is, slightly, ahead of him. Big success on clay has eluded him despite the perception of him was quite different in 2021 when Jeff...

Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Rafael Nadal (Spain) 6-2, 7-6(4) in an ATP Cup final rubber, 2020 on hard court in Sydney, Australia The result tied the match at 1-1. Djokovic would partner Viktor Troicki to win the doubles rubber over Pablo Carreno Busta and Feliciano Lopez to win the event for...

Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4 in the Year End Championship round robin, 2007 on indoor hard court in Shanghai, China Nadal would finish second in the group with a 2-1 record and go onto lose in the semi-final to eventual champion Roger Federer. Djokovic, who was playing for the...

Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer 6-4, 6-2 in the Indian Wells quarter-final, 2013 on hard court Nadal would go onto win the title, beating Juan Martin del Potro in the final. Federer was the defending champion Nadal won 73 points, Federer 54 Serve Stats Nadal... - 1st serve percentage (35/52)...

Assuming all three players were at pork form (magically transfigured into pigs) who could we see winning on each of the respective surfaces? I think pork Djoker could still be the best on grass. Please weigh in.

First of all, forgive the super long post, but detail is needed for understanding. After Kralingen put up stats for Federer and Djokovic’s peak periods, 2004-2009 and 2011-2016, respectively, and Djokovic age 30s period, 2018-2023 in this thread, I decided to take a deep dive into the strength...

In the last couple of years we've seen a lot of new big title champions, especially compared to 2011-2013 where Ferrer was the only one to make that breakthrough. Since we have a lot of 1 M1000 (which I'll just refer to M for short) winners I decided to look at all of them (and the more...

Recently (Aug. 2023), at a Uniqlo event in New York, a kid asked Roger: “What is your relationship with Rafa? ” and here's Roger's answer ...

I just read a story claiming that Federer had broken 11 racquets in his career, Djokovic 55 and NADAL 1. NADAL BROKE 1 RACQUET?? WHEN? https://esporte.ig.com.br/maisesportes/2023-07-20/djokovic--federer-e-nadal--veja-quantas-raquetes-o-trio-ja-quebrou.html.ampstories

Federer: SF: 7-1 Won: Roddick (W03), Kiefer* (AO06), Gasquet (W07), Monfils (RG08), Del Potro (RG09), Raonic (W14), Chung* (AO18) Lost: Nadal (RG05) F: 5-1 Won: Baghdatis* (AO06), Gonzalez* (AO06), Djokovic (USO07), Murray (USO08), Soderling (RG09) Lost: Del Potro (USO09) Nadal...

Now that the dust has settled and Novak Djokovic has cemented his place as the unquestionable, undisputed GOAT of tennis we must revisit history critically to understand how we got it all so wrong. You see, fellow fedal bros, I too was blind. I was blinded by Big Nike. Blinded by the paid media...

On 24 May, Federer launched a Q&A session on Twitter in which he mentioned Rafa Nadal at least five times. Here's the funny and touching responses from Federer: Q：Do you miss playing Rafa?? A：yes and no Q：Your favorite match against @RafaelNadal ? A：RG 2008. Those 4 games were awesome...

* stats below (not sure what that autocorrect was lol) Before 2019, Nadal had won 52% of his TBs vs top 10 players on hard court. This placed him 20th for the period from 2003-2019 (Fed was 16th with 57%). He has won 7% of his tiebreaks since then. 1 in 14… Out of 83 players I could find TB...

Last year an in-form Alcaraz got stopped by Ribdal at Indian Wells, then nabbed 2 wins against a rusty Djokodal at Madrid. Even in his semi-charged state, match-unfit Djoker produced a tough match for Chaz and it seemed we were in for more fun throughout the rest of the year. But some Covid BS...

For a future safeguard against overhyping the latest mug, let's make a benchmark of what it is actually possible for 17 year olds, 25 year olds, 35 year olds to do in tennis. Think Alcaraz's level is the highest ever from a 19 year old on HC? Think Fed's peak on grass is the highest ever? Now...

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