Nadal has never lost a final to NextGen player

beard

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The real story is that Nadal has met one of his NextGen players (4-5+ years younger) in a final only eleven times his entire career. In comparison, Federer had already met a young gun in a final 10 times by the end of 2006.
Yes, we already know he had enormous advantage while swapping those slams...
Rafole at that age had to play against goats for their slams, let them bread a little ;)
 

CYGS

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The real story is that Nadal has met one of his NextGen players (4-5+ years younger) in a final only eleven times his entire career. In comparison, Federer had already met a young gun in a final 10 times by the end of 2006.
And Peak Federer got dominated by that young gun. #NotGoat
 

MichaelNadal

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He better slay :p


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Hitman

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while at the same time he lost his edge against fraudovic on non-clay surfaces.........i am not that happy with nadal at the moment........he is not what he was before 2015........

LOL - Give the guy a break, he is not invincible and you're talking about the guy who will go down as the greatest on HC the way things are shaping up, plus that guy is one of the greatest ever on grass.....there is absolutely no shame in losing his edge against Djokovic outside of clay.
 
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while at the same time he lost his edge against fraudovic on non-clay surfaces.........i am not that happy with nadal at the moment........he is not what he was before 2015........
Nadal is not happy with you either, given that you criticize him for peaking in his 20s instead of his 30s....
Has anybody ever peaked in their 30s? Wawrinka and maybe Agassi but many would say 1994-95 Agassi was better than 1999 Agassi.
Nadal is more dominant at Roland Garros now than ever before.....dropped 3 sets in the last 4 years.....plus he's won 2 of the last 3 US Opens prior to covid, and the last 2 Canada Masters....
He's headed for 25 slams.
 
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This stat is not very important. Djokovic's run 2021, 22 and 2023 against next gen is much more impressive. Why? Djokovic exposes himself out of comfort zone 10x more often. Nadal does mainly on good conditions for him. Nadal never tasted ultimate level of Sinner and Carlitos. It is similar like with h2h on GS against Djokovič. If Nadal gets more often to finals of Australian Open, Wimbledon or World Tour Finals out of clay.... Djokovič would have a positive h2h overall 45:28 against Nadal.... Djokovic would have a positive h2h 20:11 against Nadal on GSlams. But Nadal was not good enough of tennis player to get into those finals. :))
 
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