Most overrated match on here?

Is RG 2013 SF the most overrated match?

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Have seen a lot of threads about the best/most underrated matches but what is the most overrated?

For me it is the RG 2013 SF; the match didn't really have any real quality until the fifth set tbh, both played played quite conservatively during the first four sets and only in the fifth set did they really go for it (Nadal hitting like 20+ winners?)

Wimbledon 2008 final is a bit overrated by people but that had better quality and drama throughout imo.

Also kinda feel Wimbledon 2009 final was a bit overrated too, was a servebot fest at times.
 
Well RG 2013 SF was overrated because it was one of the few truly great RG matches involving Nadal.

Usually, Nadal would win all his RG matches in 3-4 sets with little drama. That one simply broke the pattern.

IMO, that's probably why it's overrated.
 
Federer fans overrate some matches that featured their guy, Djokovic and Nadal fans do pretty much the same. The former think most of the time that longer matches are awful grindfests, the latter criticize the shorter ones, boring servefests.

2005 AO semifinal is one of the best ever matches, but calling it #1 is overrating to me. I don't know, that one just isn't my cup of tea. Sorry.

Personally I overrate some Djokodal matches because I just love the brutality that their rivalry brings.

Btw, 2009 Wimbledon final featured a Virus so of course praising that match in any way is overrating. :D

Preparing for the wave of Arod fans...:eek:

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One of, along with the likes of W 2008 F and AO 2012 F.

AO 05 SF and W 09 F are not as overrated, simply because they are not rated as highly.

W 08 has to be the most overrated, with all the "best match ever" talk.

The most underrated matches have to be some historical gems of ancient past that almost no one ever talks about.
 
RG 2013 is a good choice, as well as AO 2012, and probably AO 2005.

I understand why some list W2008, because the match in it-self was not the best. W2007 was better, quality wise. But the drama, the context and the outcome of W2008 are too huge, you can't have a better story. In 2007, it was interesting to see how the match would go but Fed was huge favorite, he wasn't risking to lose his top ranking, etc.

In 2008 he had just been humiliated in RG, his top ranking was a target for Nadal, he lose the 2 first sets, come back with 2 tie-break, then the match goes on? How can you have a better match?
 
Flash O'Groove said:
RG 2013 is a good choice, as well as AO 2012, and probably AO 2005.

I understand why some list W2008, because the match in it-self was not the best. W2007 was better, quality wise. But the drama, the context and the outcome of W2008 are too huge, you can't have a better story. In 2007, it was interesting to see how the match would go but Fed was huge favorite, he wasn't risking to lose his top ranking, etc.

In 2008 he had just been humiliated in RG, his top ranking was a target for Nadal, he lose the 2 first sets, come back with 2 tie-break, then the match goes on? How can you have a better match?
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2017 AO final !No ?
Fed was 2 games down in the 5th set, and nearly everyone thought his dream of 18th would get demolished again. But Fed fought back winning 5 games in a row,and claimed the most impossible title.
Is there any better drama ,especially for a 36-year-old veteran who's chasing his next GS title for almost 5 years ,meanwhile cracked his nemesis' mental toughness at critical moment?
Of course not.
 
Luckydog said:
2017 AO final !No ?
Fed was 2 games down in the 5th set, and nearly everyone thought his dream of 18th would get demolished again. But Fed fought back winning 5 games in a row,and claimed the most impossible title.
Is there any better drama ,especially for a 36-year-old veteran who's chasing his next GS title for almost 5 years ,meanwhile cracked his nemesis' mental toughness at critical moment?
Of course not.
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Ye, AO 2017 was amazing. Maybe not the highest quality Fedal match, given how both have declined a lot, but nonetheless it had everything. For me it was also one of the most entertaining matches between Fed and Nadal, regardless of the outcome.
 
Luckydog said:
2017 AO final !No ?
Fed was 2 games down in the 5th set, and nearly everyone thought his dream of 18th would get demolished again. But Fed fought back winning 5 games in a row,and claimed the most impossible title.
Is there any better drama ,especially for a 36-year-old veteran who's chasing his next GS title for almost 5 years ,meanwhile cracked his nemesis' mental toughness at critical moment?
Of course not.
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It was a cool match but it won't change the shape of tennis nor the place of the protagonists in history books. Wimbledon 2008 for me had an outside context which makes it particularly important. If we don't consider outside context, it's a cool match but not one of the best, and I certainly loved the AO 2017 more, especially the outcome!
 
Australian Open 2012 between Nole and Rafa... the one that lasted 6 hours (and felt like 36 hours). It was 4 hours of ball bouncing, toweling off, butt picking and boredom. Both were literally taking 35 seconds between points. The actual time the ball was in play was less than 2 hours. Yet people claimed it was 'the greatest ever match!'

Now nobody even remembers it, unless they are Nole fans.
 
BeatlesFan said:
Australian Open 2012 between Nole and Rafa... the one that lasted 6 hours (and felt like 36 hours). It was 4 hours of ball bouncing, toweling off, butt picking and boredom. Both were literally taking 35 seconds between points. The actual time the ball was in play was less than 2 hours. Yet people claimed it was 'the greatest ever match!'

Now nobody even remembers it, unless they are Nole fans.
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Talks about the match in the first paragraph, then says nobody even remembers that same match immediately in the second one.

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Interesting, I thought I was the only one who thought Wimbledon 2008 was over rated. Seems to be quoted as Top 1 or 2 match throughout this board. To me 2008 represents a point in time which identify the end of Grass Court tennis as a style. Realistically it was much earlier but it was a defining point. A point where Wimbledon no longer stands above as a standout Tourney.
 
NatF said:
Djokovic was crap af for 50% of the match. Middle two sets were high quality the rest was poor.
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Crap, shmap. How many times has he beaten Nadal on HC where Nadal was crap? Djokovic would have beaten anyone else that day, Nadal was undefeated on HC at that point in 2013. I'd be more ok with hearing that if Nadal got credit for beating a well playing Djokovic on HC. Which he never does.
 
MichaelNadal said:
Crap, shmap. How many times has he beaten Nadal on HC where Nadal was crap? Djokovic would have beaten anyone else that day, Nadal was undefeated on HC at that point in 2013. I'd be more ok with hearing that if Nadal got credit for beating a well playing Djokovic on HC. Which he never does.
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I don't care about the past man. Djokovic was at 4 winners and 13 UE's in the first set, he couldn't hit the side of a barn with his forehand. I actually think Djokovic played well in 2010 and better than 2013.

He would have beaten anyone else because the other great HC players were missing in action :D Nadal was immense but let's not pretend that match was quality from Djokovic.
 
The Wimbledon 2008 final. It had alot of drama but the quality wasn't high enough to call it the 'best/greatest match ever'
 
Russeljones said:
Your opinion being that the level of play is all that counts toward whether a match is great? Yes, it differs.
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Now your putting words in my mouth i didnt say. I didn't say level of play is all that counts, neither did I say it wasn't a great match. But if a match get labelled as ''the best ever' constantly and even gets a book written about it, I expect a higher quality overall, througout the match and not just in certain parts.
 
Artist said:
Now your putting words in my mouth i didnt say. I didn't say level of play is all that counts, neither did I say it wasn't a great match. But if a match get labelled as ''the best ever' constantly and even gets a book written about it, I expect a higher quality overall, througout the match and not just in certain parts.
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Well there's a reason a book WASN'T written about Fed-Safin 05
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Artist said:
Now your putting words in my mouth i didnt say. I didn't say level of play is all that counts, neither did I say it wasn't a great match. But if a match get labelled as ''the best ever' constantly and even gets a book written about it, I expect a higher quality overall, througout the match and not just in certain parts.
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If you make a 3rd post confirming you don't get tennis, I will have to say it a 3rd time myself. ;)
 
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