The Nalbandian Conundrum

[bjk]

Possibly the most surprising Federer H2H is his 11-8 record vs Nalbandian. In fact he lost his first 5 matches to David, including losses in Basel, AO and USO. And it's not as if Nalbandian was a veteran taking advantage of a new player on tour, Nalbandian is actually younger than Fed. Up until 2007 the H2H was actually even at 8-8.

So does anybody have an idea why Fed had so much trouble against Nalbandian / Nalbandian was able to dominate Fed early in his career?

https://www.atpworldtour.com/en/pla...d/david-nalbandian-vs-roger-federer/N301/F324

 

[Deleted member 307496]

Because he was a powerful hitter off both wings - capable of variety to a certain degree too.

Nalbandian is like all the crap that was said about Gasquet except it was true.

 

[Deleted member 307496]

Because he was a powerful hitter off both wings - capable of variety to a certain degree too.

Nalbandian is like all the crap that's said about Gasquet except it's true.

 

[crazyups]

Bandy's backhand gave Federer trouble, it was superior to Federer's backhand and that set up the problems on both sides of Federer.