NADAL or FEDERER: Better Role Model

Better Role Model

  • Roger Federer

    Votes: 88 72.7%

  • Rafael Nadal

    Votes: 33 27.3%
  • Total voters
    121
  • Poll closed .
JoshDragon said:
How is Roger a good role model for kids. He got his girlfriend pregnant before he was married and he's cried during the finals of the Australian Open and I think Wimbledon 2008 as well. He's a tremendous tennis player but he's not a good loser. He's also not humble.
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I think its a bit draconian to slate him for only getting married because a child is on the way. I do however agree with the rest of your post.
 
JoshDragon said:
How is Roger a good role model for kids. He got his girlfriend pregnant before he was married and he's cried during the finals of the Australian Open and I think Wimbledon 2008 as well. He's a tremendous tennis player but he's not a good loser. He's also not humble.
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He is a good role model in that he works extremely hard at what he does (I hear his work ethic is incredible). He has pretty sizable charity organization and has provided aid to many poverty stricken areas around the world such as India and South Africa. He was also the mastermind behind the ATP tsunami relief rally. All in all, Federer has more good qualities than bad ones.
 
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JoshDragon said:
How is Roger a good role model for kids. He got his girlfriend pregnant before he was married and he's cried during the finals of the Australian Open and I think Wimbledon 2008 as well. He's a tremendous tennis player but he's not a good loser. He's also not humble.
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Excuse me? What century is this? There is nothing wrong with not being married if you are in a committed relationship. Marriage does not somehow make you better than everyone else. Roger's been with the same woman since he was 19 years old, he could have thrown her over hundreds of times over for someone more prettily packaged, once he got to the top. As for the crying he cries when he wins as well. Does that make him a bad winner then? There's a saying about good losers - "show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser". I seriously doubt any elite athlete is a good loser, some just hide it better than others. It is the desire to win, and the hatred of losing that goes into making them elite athletes.
 
volleynets said:
Both have good characteristics to be role models. For instance, you cannot go wrong with Federer's sportsmanship. You could also not go wrong with looking up to Nadal for his determination to win every point.
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Crying at Slams, making snide comments, making excuses, etc are not good characteristics.

No tennis player in history can even touch Nadal when it comes to being a role model for everyone.
 
jackson vile said:
Crying at Slams, making snide comments, making excuses, etc are not good characteristics.

No tennis player in history can even touch Nadal when it comes to being a role model for everyone.
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Arthur Ashe was a far better role model than either Federer or Nadal.
 
VivalaVida said:
He is a good role model in that he works extremely hard at what he does (I hear his work ethic is incredible). He has pretty sizable charity organization and has provided aid to many poverty stricken areas around the world such as India and South Africa. He was also the mastermind behind the ATP tsunami relief rally. All in all, Federer has more good qualities than bad ones.
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These are all good qualities. He also seems to go out of his way to promote the sport. In this last respect he is very different from say Sampras.
 
I don't think crying like a baby at a trophy ceremony because you lost(Fed at AO 2009) or breaking racquets because you are losing(Fed at Miami 2009) can be considered a good role model.
 
JoshDragon said:
How is Roger a good role model for kids. He got his girlfriend pregnant before he was married and he's cried during the finals of the Australian Open and I think Wimbledon 2008 as well. He's a tremendous tennis player but he's not a good loser. He's also not humble.
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I agree. Additionally, shame on Roger for not making Mirka wear this:

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Nadal obviusly has more trolls as fans, so I don't think he makes for a good role model....... Unless you want your kid to be a butt-picking, ignorant troll.
 
settolove said:
Excuse me? What century is this? There is nothing wrong with not being married if you are in a committed relationship. Marriage does not somehow make you better than everyone else. Roger's been with the same woman since he was 19 years old, he could have thrown her over hundreds of times over for someone more prettily packaged, once he got to the top. As for the crying he cries when he wins as well. Does that make him a bad winner then? There's a saying about good losers - "show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser". I seriously doubt any elite athlete is a good loser, some just hide it better than others. It is the desire to win, and the hatred of losing that goes into making them elite athletes.
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I never said that it did.
 
Roger is my personal role model, and I'm in my late thirties (call me a ****)...

I like Nadal but I don't see him at all as a role model... For me he's like a late teenager, extremely gifted and competitive (not only on the playstation), but someone who really needs mature guidance and framework...

Roger, on the other side, makes his own decisions (OK he asks for Mirka's opininon, that's what most male adults do anyway :)
 
ThePerfectMan (unlike me) said:
Roger is my personal role model, and I'm in my late thirties (call me a ****)...

I like Nadal but I don't see him at all as a role model... For me he's like a late teenager, extremely gifted and competitive (not only on the playstation), but someone who really needs mature guidance and framework...

Roger, on the other side, makes his own decisions (OK he asks for Mirka's opininon, that's what most male adults do anyway :)
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To me Roger appeals to a wider audience.
 
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