Because, historically the toughest competition was on HC and is now too. And it shows.
Fed won only 11 HC titles compared to 8 W titles and yet he has double the chances to win.
Why is competition tougher? Because HC is 70% and everybody focuses their games on HC.
Just look that most great players in this era are all hard courters. Roddick, Safin, Wawrinka, Murray, Djokovic, Hewitt. All are the toughest on HC, that's why it's so hard to win on hard courts.
All time greats historically all focused their games for HC and for grass. All things aren't equal. Learning Chinese is tougher than English, why? Because you have simple alphabet in English, in Chinese every word is almost an entire picture, you have to learn basically thousands of pictures to read. Winning on hard courts is the toughest, because competition is way tougher there.
Even if you remove Nadal in this era, Hewitt, Safin, Roddick, Murray still aren't that great on clay, that they would be winning multiple RG titles. But if you remove Fed, Safin, Roddick, Hewit become basically all time greats, so the argument that Nadal stopped them is not true. They simply didn't focus their game on clay. Why is it so hard to win WTF? Because everybody is so good on hard courts, especially indoor where conditions are perfect, so no luck factor.
Remove Fed and Nadal and you will see that top guys in this era still have greater stats on HC than on clay, this proves that competition on HC is the toughest. And why would we even need evidence, it's common sense that it will be so, when it's 70% and the biggest change to win titles.
Fed won only 11 HC titles compared to 8 W titles and yet he has double the chances to win.
Why is competition tougher? Because HC is 70% and everybody focuses their games on HC.
Just look that most great players in this era are all hard courters. Roddick, Safin, Wawrinka, Murray, Djokovic, Hewitt. All are the toughest on HC, that's why it's so hard to win on hard courts.
All time greats historically all focused their games for HC and for grass. All things aren't equal. Learning Chinese is tougher than English, why? Because you have simple alphabet in English, in Chinese every word is almost an entire picture, you have to learn basically thousands of pictures to read. Winning on hard courts is the toughest, because competition is way tougher there.
Even if you remove Nadal in this era, Hewitt, Safin, Roddick, Murray still aren't that great on clay, that they would be winning multiple RG titles. But if you remove Fed, Safin, Roddick, Hewit become basically all time greats, so the argument that Nadal stopped them is not true. They simply didn't focus their game on clay. Why is it so hard to win WTF? Because everybody is so good on hard courts, especially indoor where conditions are perfect, so no luck factor.
Remove Fed and Nadal and you will see that top guys in this era still have greater stats on HC than on clay, this proves that competition on HC is the toughest. And why would we even need evidence, it's common sense that it will be so, when it's 70% and the biggest change to win titles.
