Of course normally he would. But the pressure of going for no.20 against a guy everyone says u will beat would be high. If he lost it would be a choke. At least a loss to djokovic there would be no regrets. Hope i am making sense. I totally get what u are saying but this is unique circumstances.Nah man!!!! Come on!
Nadal will take Rublev over those other 2 guys all day, every day...
You were refuted, Nadal himself said that he doesn't want Djokovic. He said he likes a challenge, but he isn't stupid. So, will you admit you were wrong?
No because in this instant i am right. Best thing for Nadal is Djokovic in the final. If he plays Rublev or Tsitsipas i think he will choke. Against Djokovic he wont as he knows how hard Djokovic is.
I’m going to go with the opposite of all this lol
He’s troubled him a hell of a lot more than any other player you could name. Not even close. You’re the one saying he wants him in the final when he Rafa has said the opposite
Nadal was in shocking form going into that match. He was hitting so short.
That doesn't make any sense, historically champions never choke vs lower guys, when did it happen? When did big3 choke to low level guys in finals, like never, especially Nadal.
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Yes i do compete at a good level at tennis and i have a much better record against some higher level players than i do against a much lower league player. Match ups matter.
That doesn't matter if his FH started GOATing in that match. One of his best post-2008 perfomances.
Good point that matchups matters, but not to such an extend that Nadal would prefer Medvedev over Djokovic, that is crazy, because skill gap here is higher than a bad matchup. If you say Nadal prefers Fed over Djokovic, ok fine, I give you that, but Djokovic is the only one pushing him to five and beating him at RG and has beaten him a lot on clay plus has beaten him the most times in GS.
No, I don't buy this, he is just not as smart. I lot of people are using trolling as an excuse for their ignorance, they are saying, hey I was just kidding or trolling.
I also dont understand his reasoning, going to agree with you, Rafa has mental edge over Novak at RG but he will surely prefer Tsists or Rublev over Novak
And we don't even have to speculate, Rafa himself said it he wouldn't prefer Novak. Rafa said the same about Fed, of course nobody would prefer to have two goats in the final, it's obvious.
How can anyone be irked exactly? This is not politics !!! Even the most sensitive person surely cannot get irked talking tennis the most genteel of sports.
If i was going for a record personally id rather play a rival even if they were a better player. Of course we dont know how Nadal and Djokovic are off court. I definitely think that playing someone you dislike is easier as well in terms of helping with nerves. Becker said that many times.
Maybe you are more of a shotmaker, but Nadal is more of a strategic player like myself. We strategic players prefer to play someone with lesser skills, because we know if we adjust strategy we will always win, playing talented shotmakers is always a gamble.
Djoko has talked about beatable Claydal more than a decade ago, can't prevent him from beating Dal several times later.
Maybe
Even Fed was always saying he is in control of the match vs Nadal. Of course champions like Fed and novak will never admit someone is better, that's why they are champions.
Oh, I'm not saying Fed was right, but at the time he trully believed that. And I heard him say that very late, I think in 2011 or even after 2011. And Fed was saying that about all surfaces about Nadal, not just clay, that the match is always on his racket.
Even better, I don't think anyone wants Djokovic in the final. Especially when Djokovic totally owned Nadal for the past years in h2h and he has beaten him at RG too. Of course Nadal doesn't want Djokovic.
Well im a limited player in the sense my BH is just a defensive shot that i hit double handed and try and get it deep. Sometimes slice it. My big shot is the FH that i hit hard and with a lot of top spin that i rely on to dictate rallies. Serve is not bad either when its going well and i have a good ROS that i can hit for winners outright even off 125 mph serves. Obviously at my level guys eho serve that hard lose accuracy so it is in the hit zone. A well placed 80 mph serve i find harder to deal with. I do not stand at the back fence to return serve as my ego will not let me give the satisfaction to my opponent that he has that big a serve.
Of course anything is possible. Plus I would imagine whoever makes the final on the opposite side did so by having played great tennis and being mentally strong. The odds favour Nadal obviously. Only Djokovic on the other side of the draw really has a shot against Nadal should they meet in the final.
You dont think Tsitsipas or Rublev if they beat Djokovic would be a threat?
First time Slam finalists? I don't know. I haven't seen exceptional mental strength from either. But then again what do I know? Wawrinka and Del Potro and Cilic all won their first Slam finals. So anything is possible.
Last meeting on clay Nadal destroyed djokovic
You don't think it will on the back of Rafa's mind?
You know this is the kind of post that only makes my claim more believable. And ''Better for Nadal to face Rublev than Djokovic because of pressure blablabla", maybe it is an acceptable take, even though I would not agree with it. But insisting that Nadal wanted Thiem and Djokovic rather than anyone else is just too much, you make statements that just make it impossible to believe in your seriousness.
