How Nadal made the 2017 cake taste so good

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The things I have been hearing about Nadal, that 2017 emphatically answered.

Nadal is finished and will never win a slam again - Nadal wins La Decima at RG and USO

Nadal hasn't won a title on HC since Doha 2014 - Nadal wins back to back HC titles in USO and Beijing

Nadal's washed up on clay, he is too slow - Nadal win four titles on clay, including back to back masters and RG with the least amount of games dropped in all ten of his wins

Stanimal beat Nadal at AO 2014 - Nadal destroys Stan with the loss of six games at RG

Nadal hasn't even taken a set off of Djokovic since RG 2014 - Nadal straight sets him in Madrid and snaps the winning streak

Nadal cannot play on fast courts - Nadal makes the final of AO, wins Beijing and reaches the final of Shanghai

Nadal is irrelevant in the second half of the season - Nadal puts together a 16 match winning streak on HC and reaches three straight finals and wins two of them.

Nadal will never be number one again - Nadal recaptures the number one ranking, is the most consistent player on the tour and is on course for a fourth year ending number one.

Incredible to see what a difference a year makes.
 

Smasher08

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The things I have been hearing about Nadal, that 2017 emphatically answered.

Nadal is finished and will never win a slam again - Nadal wins La Decima at RG and USO

Nadal hasn't won a title on HC since Doha 2014 - Nadal wins back to back HC titles in USO and Beijing

Nadal's washed up on clay, he is too slow - Nadal win four titles on clay, including back to back masters and RG with the least amount of games dropped in all ten of his wins

Stanimal beat Nadal at AO 2014 - Nadal destroys Stan with the loss of six games at RG

Nadal hasn't even taken a set off of Djokovic since RG 2014 - Nadal straight sets him in Madrid and snaps the winning streak

Nadal cannot play on fast courts - Nadal makes the final of AO, wins Beijing and reaches the final of Shanghai

Nadal is irrelevant in the second half of the season - Nadal puts together a 16 match winning streak on HC and reaches three straight finals and wins two of them.

Nadal will never be number one again - Nadal recaptures the number one ranking, is the most consistent player on the tour and is on course for a fourth year ending number one.

Incredible to see what a difference a year makes.


You forgot a couple of things:

1. Nadal is Finnish. But treats his fans to a very swede year.

2. Nadal is better than Fed due to h2h. But loses all those marbles after the Great Forfeit.
 

Gary Duane

Talk Tennis Guru
The things I have been hearing about Nadal, that 2017 emphatically answered.

Nadal is finished and will never win a slam again - Nadal wins La Decima at RG and USO

Nadal hasn't won a title on HC since Doha 2014 - Nadal wins back to back HC titles in USO and Beijing

Nadal's washed up on clay, he is too slow - Nadal win four titles on clay, including back to back masters and RG with the least amount of games dropped in all ten of his wins

Stanimal beat Nadal at AO 2014 - Nadal destroys Stan with the loss of six games at RG

Nadal hasn't even taken a set off of Djokovic since RG 2014 - Nadal straight sets him in Madrid and snaps the winning streak

Nadal cannot play on fast courts - Nadal makes the final of AO, wins Beijing and reaches the final of Shanghai

Nadal is irrelevant in the second half of the season - Nadal puts together a 16 match winning streak on HC and reaches three straight finals and wins two of them.

Nadal will never be number one again - Nadal recaptures the number one ranking, is the most consistent player on the tour and is on course for a fourth year ending number one.

Incredible to see what a difference a year makes.
Again, excellent.

Too bad you did not do a thread just like this around the end of 2014 for Novak - or maybe you did!!!
 

irishnadalfan1983

Hall of Fame
The things I have been hearing about Nadal, that 2017 emphatically answered.

Nadal is finished and will never win a slam again - Nadal wins La Decima at RG and USO

Nadal hasn't won a title on HC since Doha 2014 - Nadal wins back to back HC titles in USO and Beijing

Nadal's washed up on clay, he is too slow - Nadal win four titles on clay, including back to back masters and RG with the least amount of games dropped in all ten of his wins

Stanimal beat Nadal at AO 2014 - Nadal destroys Stan with the loss of six games at RG

Nadal hasn't even taken a set off of Djokovic since RG 2014 - Nadal straight sets him in Madrid and snaps the winning streak

Nadal cannot play on fast courts - Nadal makes the final of AO, wins Beijing and reaches the final of Shanghai

Nadal is irrelevant in the second half of the season - Nadal puts together a 16 match winning streak on HC and reaches three straight finals and wins two of them.

Nadal will never be number one again - Nadal recaptures the number one ranking, is the most consistent player on the tour and is on course for a fourth year ending number one.

Incredible to see what a difference a year makes.

That's a nice piece - to be fair I probably thought about 90% of that myself :)
 

Red Rick

Bionic Poster
The things I have been hearing about Nadal, that 2017 emphatically answered.

Nadal is finished and will never win a slam again - Nadal wins La Decima at RG and USO

Nadal hasn't won a title on HC since Doha 2014 - Nadal wins back to back HC titles in USO and Beijing

Nadal's washed up on clay, he is too slow - Nadal win four titles on clay, including back to back masters and RG with the least amount of games dropped in all ten of his wins

Stanimal beat Nadal at AO 2014 - Nadal destroys Stan with the loss of six games at RG

Nadal hasn't even taken a set off of Djokovic since RG 2014 - Nadal straight sets him in Madrid and snaps the winning streak

Nadal cannot play on fast courts - Nadal makes the final of AO, wins Beijing and reaches the final of Shanghai

Nadal is irrelevant in the second half of the season - Nadal puts together a 16 match winning streak on HC and reaches three straight finals and wins two of them.

Nadal will never be number one again - Nadal recaptures the number one ranking, is the most consistent player on the tour and is on course for a fourth year ending number one.

Incredible to see what a difference a year makes.
I honestly feel that his comeback this year is very underrated because of Federer. I honestly think it's at least as impressive as Federer's.

Federer had been the 2nd best player in big tournaments from 2014 until the 2016 Australian Open, and he was stopped consistenly by Djokovic.

Nadal basically had stopped being relevant in slams after 2014 RG, and now he's had a better year in slams than Federer. Nadal is basically more dominant than he's ever been off clay, except for that his matchup advantage with Federer has turned around. And that's because both have made similar changes. Improve backhand, take the ball earlier, and play more agressive. Them both doing that has suited Federer tremendously in this particular matchup, as it's a regular battle of the baseline now instead of Federer trying to hit winners somewhere while Nadal keeps stomping on that backhand.
 
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I honestly feel that his comeback this year is very underrated because of Federer. I honestly think it's at least as impressive as Federer's.

Federer had been the 2nd best player in big tournaments from 2014 until the 2016 Australian Open, and he was stopped consistenly by Djokovic.

Nadal basically had stopped being relevant in slams after 2014 RG, and now he's had a better year in slams than Federer. Nadal is basically more dominant than he's ever been off clay, except for that his matchup advantage with Federer has turned around. And that's because both have made similar changes. Improve backhand, take the ball earlier, and play more agressive. Them both doing that has suited Federer tremendously in this particular matchup, as it's a regular battle of the baseline now instead of Federer trying to hit winners somewhere while Nadal keeps stomping on that backhand.

Take Federer out, and Nadal could have a year that might have solidified him at the top. A possible, and I say possible 3 slams and five masters to his name this, if Federer didn't do what he did.
 

Red Rick

Bionic Poster
Take Federer out, and Nadal could have a year that might have solidified him at the top. A possible, and I say possible 3 slams and five masters to his name this, if Federer didn't do what he did.
At 17-17 it's very close and other variables would be pretty mixed between them, but then Rafa would be the big favorite to win more in their remaining careers.

Still though can't catch Mury Goat though.
 
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