What is there to think about? Federer would win any final where there is no Nadal. The Cuevas', ageing Verdasco's, Dustin Browns', Pom-Tidley-poms and any journeyman will do Fed the favour of knocking Nadal out, and if Nadal's curse doesn't strike, that journeyman will get cleaned up by the Swiss Maestro in the final 0-1-(2). If Nadal makes the final, however, Federer is toast.
Nadal might eke out a match on clay. With an a couple freak exceptions, no one beats Fed these days but Djokovic. Fed has even been dominating Murray lately.
Regrettably, yes, I was there and saw it all unfold. I went with a bunch of friends to watch the game on the big screen at Georgia and Homer. Definitely would have stayed home if I had some foresight. It got very claustrophobic to say the least, took a few hours to get to our car and drive out of there. Most people wanted absolutely no part of it. It's widely believed that the riots would have occurred regardless of whether they won or lost. A large faction of the crowd was there for the sole purpose of rioting.
Regrettably, yes, I was there and saw it all unfold. I went with a bunch of friends to watch the game on the big screen at Georgia and Homer. Definitely would have stayed home if I had exhibited some foresight. It got very claustrophobic to say the least, took a few hours to get to our car and drive out of there. Most people wanted absolutely no part of it. It's widely believed that the riots would have occurred regardless of whether they won or lost. A large faction of the crowd was there for the sole purpose of rioting.
That is too bad. Often a few bad applies ruin things for a lot of good people. Although in cases like this some of the good people even get sucked in by some of the bad apples. Partying and emotions or frusteration is par per course for young people having fun, or passionate sports fans, but you have to know where to draw the line.
This is a question I've thoght about a lot. Say they were to play 10 matches on each surface(fast hard, slow hard, clay, grass and indoors). How would their H2H look like on each surface?
I personally can't see Rafa trouble Roger too much on any surface but clay tbh.
Correct me if you think I'm wrong, but I just don't see how Nadal's current game can trouble maybe the absoulte best version of Federer. All the parts of Rafa's game that used to be the reason for his dominance over Fed have declined so much.