Federer v Djokovic Shanghai 2014 or Federer v Nadal Shanghai 2017 - What was the better Fed performance?

[Holmes]

Quite a bit. Fast-courterer is unrivalled.

But .... it's what it is.

You mean "Medium-court-with-a-medium-bouncerer". Federer never dominated on a fast surface, let alone played the highest level seen on one. That would be Pete.

 

[FeroBango]

You mean "Medium-court-with-a-medium-bouncerer". Federer never dominated on a fast surface, let alone played the highest level seen on one. That would be Pete.

You can have PETE up there. I don't mind. Pete bro certainly has the accolades for it.
But fast-courterer is unparalleled and I'll die on this hill.

 

[Holmes]

You can have PETE up there. I don't mind. Pete bro certainly has the accolades for it.
But fast-courterer is unparalleled and I'll die on this hill.

Fast-courterer doesn't exist. Medium-courterer does.

 

[Third Serve]

This poll just shows how much respect ttw has for the GOAT. You can mope as much as you want but you still will be happy when fed takes down the GOAT. Especially on hc.

This isn’t really about Djokovic. Fed simply played better in 2014, irrespective of the opponent.

You’d have a much closer poll if it was comparing the 2014 match to the Indian Wells 2017 match against Nadal.

 

[FeroBango]

Fast-courterer doesn't exist. Medium-courterer does.

Alright fine medium-courterer/00s-and-14-Shangrer is the BOAT.

 

[Holmes]

Alright fine medium-courterer/00s-and-14-Shangrer is the BOAT.

on "medium 00s and 2014 Shanghai courts". Deal.

 

[nolefam_2024]

This isn’t really about Djokovic. Fed simply played better in 2014, irrespective of the opponent.

You’d have a much closer poll if it was comparing the 2014 match to the Indian Wells 2017 match against Nadal.

Yeah because he LOST

 

[Third Serve]

Yeah because he LOST

Fed didn’t lose?

 

[nolefam_2024]

Fed didn’t lose?

Fed lost IW2014

 

[D.Nalby12]

Fed turned clock back in 2014. It looked like it was 2007 Fed all again in that particular match.

 

[Third Serve]

Fed lost IW2014

No I’m talking about comparing Shanghai 2014 to Indian Wells 2017. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

 

[NatF]

No I’m talking about comparing Shanghai 2014 to Indian Wells 2017. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

It was clear, certain posters have drunk too much cool aid though.

 

[Aestheticsaboveallelse]

That won't matter when Nole ends his career. He will create a huge gap.

Without pandemic, he would have already. And 4 is a big gap already. 1/2 slams going either way in the end won't matter but the 40-15 was a huge stain vs Federer's mental toughness. It can happen once but to happen it 3 times is really poor.

Its not necessarily mental toughness it could be his body gets too fidgety when very nervous. For example when I get very nervous my entire body gets very shaky and trembling which would make it impossible to play high level tennis

Or it could just be that too much nerves throws off his high precision offensive style just enough to mess everything up