Nadal - Djokovic H2H skewness... numbers

[MadariKatu]

You just confirmed my point. He is 'natural' only in the sense that he developed those motions, became comfortable with them, and then has stuck with them. He obviously has tremendous talent like all the Big 3 and top 100 players have, but he developed his skills in the direction of the clay court and did not deviate. I think you as a Nadal fan agree that Nadal doesn't deviate very much from anything. Players develop their strokes, their tendencies, their preferences which may be somewhat influenced by their talent, but is mainly choice.

Look at the biggest choice that the Nadal's made, making him a left-hander over being a right-hander. So no, Nadal is not a natural clay-courter or a left-hander; he was trained to be what he is.

I disagree. You're saying he chose to play that way. I'm saying he developed his game due to different conditions.

On being a natural clay courter... I don't think that the best in the history at something is not a natural. You can take butterfly swimming, marathon, cycling, skying whatever to want. If there's someone that is the best there ever was, obviously lots of work went into it as well, but I will never believe they weren't natural at it.