With all due respect, I know a lot of individuals laud that victory but despite being a hige Nalby fan it's extremely overrated. It is a fact that Federer was far from 100% especially during the last few sets, suffering as he was from a relapsed twinging of his recently healed sprained ankle which had put him out of contention for much of the latter end of the season prior to the WTF. His movement and serve was blatantly compromised. It was very obvious. He was almost hobbling during the last couple of games during the fifth set and was either trying to serve and volley (with extremely weak serves) or go for inopportune offensive shots to prevent Nalby from running him around on the court and exacerbating his ankle further.
I consider it to be one of Federer's more "heroic" defeats that despite his injury he was still able to keep things competitive -- not surprising since I consider Fed's 2005 level to be the best he has ever played.
Why are you so obsessed about me? Of course Safin said Nadal is better overall at this point in time. Djoker will surpass Nadal easily since he's superior to him on all counts.