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Bionic Poster
Talking about numbers, does anyone know how many times Joker has beaten Nadal in Slams?
It's a bit unfair to say that Nadal pwns Djokovic in Slam meetings and end the discussion.
They played in the 2006-2008 French Opens on clay in Nadal's best years, he had a huge advantage and no wonder he won all 3 meetings.
They also played at 2007 Wimbledon, Nadal's second best surface and Djokovic's worst. Even though Djokovic having his first big run at SW19 pushed Nadal in the first 2 sets (winning the 1st one) before retiring (he barely beat Baghdatis 7-6 7-6 6-7 4-6 7-5 after 5 hours of play in the previous round and generally had a tough road to the semis, in the 4th round he beat Hewitt 7-6 7-6 4-6 7-6)
2010 US Open - again Djokovic was unlucky to spend tons of energy in the previous round as he has to beat Federer in over 4 hours in the semis, saving match points.
Now since Djokovic is just entering his peak and Nadal is fading (as opposite to 2006-2008 where Nadal was in or close to his peak and Djokovic was only maturing as a player) let's see who gets on top in their eventual Slam meetings.
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