Do u think Nadal can win Fed only at RG ?

[Aykhan Mammadov]

I think it is already no surprise that Fed lost to Nadal AGAIN ( 2 days passed after the final). So I'm not writing "Spoiler".

I started to pity this ugly pirate boy a little asking myself why me and many people as me don't like him in their soul ? Is it right?

Conversely, Fed proved ( despite I warned him many times) that he is miserable coward. In the beginning of the match hands of Fed were shaking because he was afraid. Even stupid me could play 1-st set against Nadal better than Fed. That was ashaming. How can be No 1 without brave heart? Finally we understand that the man played so successfully against Gonzales and others lost because he just trembled.

For stupid me despite millions of reasons described already millions of times why clay is so different from hard or grass, it still stays the same. My brain doesn't accept this, I consider that great player is greater on every surface. Just psychological problems assure them and steals their self-confidence on a particluar surface. There are many examples - and one of bright examples is Borg with his 6 times FO and 5 times of W championships. Conversely, absence of self-confidence has also many examples: Lendl at W, Sampras at RG. IMO it is myth. Agassi doesn't get anything special apart of brave heart and he won on all 4 surfaces.

I don't understand the following. OK, there are some differences between clay and say hard. So what else? If first demands more endurance let a real No 1 have more endurance, if second demands more speed let him have it. If Nadal is more powerful and has more endurance then why can't he win at W or USO ? Is Fed faster than Nadal ? I can't tell so. Isn't this the same psychological problem preventing Nadal to win everybody on every kind of courts ?

Shortly do u really think that he can't win Fed at W final or somewhere else ? I don't think so.

 

[The Pusher Terminator]

I think it is already no surprise that Fed lost to Nadal AGAIN ( 2 days passed after the final). So I'm not writing "Spoiler".

I started to pity this ugly pirate boy a little asking myself why me and many people as me don't like him in their soul ? Is it right?

Conversely, Fed proved ( despite I warned him many times) that he is miserable coward. In the beginning of the match hands of Fed were shaking because he was afraid. Even stupid me could play 1-st set against Nadal better than Fed. That was ashaming. How can be No 1 without brave heart? Finally we understand that the man played so successfully against Gonzales and others lost because he just trembled.

For stupid me despite millions of reasons described already millions of times why clay is so different from hard or grass, it still stays the same. My brain doesn't accept this, I consider that great player is greater on every surface. Just psychological problems assure them and steals their self-confidence on a particluar surface. There are many examples - and one of bright examples is Borg with his 6 times FO and 5 times of W championships. Conversely, absence of self-confidence has also many examples: Lendl at W, Sampras at RG. IMO it is myth. Agassi doesn't get anything special apart of brave heart and he won on all 4 surfaces.

I don't understand the following. OK, there are some differences between clay and say hard. So what else? If first demands more endurance let a real No 1 have more endurance, if second demands more speed let him have it. If Nadal is more powerful and has more endurance then why can't he win at W or USO ? Is Fed faster than Nadal ? I can't tell so. Isn't this the same psychological problem preventing Nadal to win everybody on every kind of courts ?

Shortly do u really think that he can't win Fed at W final or somewhere else ? I don't think so.

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[Aykhan Mammadov]

By the way 2 from 4 victories over Fed Nadal got on hard.

 

[Turning Pro]

Aus Open.Maybe take him to 5 at the Us open.

 

[raftermania]

Aykhan, if Nadal was around when Agassi won his FO, let's just say, Agassi would not have won the FO. I think facing a lean and mean Nadal would have been more of a barrier than Andrei Medvedev. lol

 

[Lee]

yeah Aykhan.

 

[ATXtennisaddict]

By the way 2 from 4 victories over Fed Nadal got on hard.

Slow hard. Bouncy hard. Pretty close matches too.

 

[Grimjack]

Are you asking whether we think the French is the only Grand Slam where Nadal can beat Federer?

If so, then yes. That's precisely what I believe. But I believe it will be because Nadal never advances far enough to face Federer at any slam but the French, not because Federer will assert any kind of personal dominance over him. (Not that he wouldn't dominate Nadal at those venues; I just don't think Nadal is capable of living up to his end of the bargain anywhere but RG.)

 

[superman1]

Agassi didn't just get lucky at the '99 French Open. He was in the finals twice before that. You could also say that if Nadal was in the 2000 French Open, maybe Kuerten wouldn't be shining that trophy right now. Nadal is a bigger obstacle than Magnus Norman.

 

[sureshs]

It must be so difficult for Aykhan to pretend to have bad English skills. Good sentences creeping in inadvertently, then contrived errors introduced into other sentences to make up for it. And an incorrect thread title to cap it all. It is a genius at work.

 

[Lee]

Hey at least our man Aykhan Mammadov is showing some flashes of brilliance in his writing; it is like watching Richard Gasqut hitting an amazing backhand crosscourt, but followed by missing an easy volley immediately after

 

[Aykhan Mammadov]

At my 40 really is difficult to study English and especially sitting far away from USA and UK, in Azerbaijan. If I lived somewhere in English-speaking country probably I'd learn it faster.

But despite my errors ( most of them appear because I learn everything from books, not live) I want to break Russian barrier with all my efforts. I call this cultural barrier Russian because just they kept us and millions of other nations cuted off the rest of the world for almost a century. And I'm not interested in the rest of the world, what is important we were kept with no communications with West Europe, USA and Canada - countries which I respect.

 

[Moose Malloy]

Agassi didn't just get lucky at the '99 French Open. He was in the finals twice before that. You could also say that if Nadal was in the 2000 French Open, maybe Kuerten wouldn't be shining that trophy right now. Nadal is a bigger obstacle than Magnus Norman.

Not so sure about that. Norman was playing at a very high level in 2000. He beat Kuerten in the Rome final before Paris. They were clearly the 2 best claycourt players in the world in that year. Norman came out very nervous & lost the 1st 2 sets easily. He won the 3rd, was down 5-3 in the 4th, saved 8 or 9 match points & forced a tiebreak, the games were getting ridiculously long. In the tiebreak Guga looked exhausted, Norman looked much fresher. Guga was lucky to win the 4th, a 5th would have been tough for him. Norman was the fittest guy on tour at the time. The match was 4 1/2 hours for only 4 sets. It might have been 6 hours had it gone 5.

There are many great claycourters who don't win the French. Many have very short peaks. Norman was one of them. Nadal is better than Norman, but probably not fitter. He ended 2000 ranked #3, I believe.

I don't think Agassi was lucky either. The French is always a ridiculously hard title to win. Every round can be a war. Yes, there were a lot of upsets that year, but there are every year. More often than not, the favorites do not win the French(for at least the last 10 years or so)
And in '99, Americans were considered a joke on clay, they all lost early in '97, '98, & '99.
It was no longer Agassi's best surface like it was in the early 90s. There were a ton of specialists lurking throughout the draw. He was injured & had virtually no clay court preparation beforehand. And he was 29, an age when most are winding down their career. An amazing win, more impressive than had he won it in '90 or '91 when he was one of the favorites.

Aykhan, if Nadal was around when Agassi won his FO, let's just say, Agassi would not have won the FO. I think facing a lean and mean Nadal would have been more of a barrier than Andrei Medvedev. lol

Medvedev was one of the best claycourt players of the 90s. Many MS titles, etc.

 

[sureshs]

At my 40 really is difficult to study English and especially sitting far away from USA and UK, in Azerbaijan. If I lived somewhere in English-speaking country probably I'd learn it faster.

But despite my errors ( most of them appear because I learn everything from books, not live) I want to break Russian barrier with all my efforts. I call this cultural barrier Russian because just they kept us and millions of other nations cuted off the rest of the world for almost a century. And I'm not interested in the rest of the world, what is important we were kept with no communications with West Europe, USA and Canada - countries which I respect.

You are brilliant. You could have fooled anybody about being in Azerbaijan.

There was a guy in Jay Leno's show once who fooled him for several shows pretending to be an international student. Turned out he was a local.

 

[raftermania]

Aykhan has been here too long to be faking. You can only get your sh!ts and giggles out of being a faulty foreigner for so long before it gets boring.