There's a book on Djokovic's quest for Roland Garros

[roysid]

A separate book on Djoker's quest to win the French Open. Undoubtedly Djokovic had a huge effort to win the French, more so when he won the other 3 slams. He lost 6 times to Nadal in French, out of these 3 times he was surely denied a title (2012-14) by Nadal and once by Wawrinka in 2015.

http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2017...uchard-quest-french-open-roland-garros/66320/

But what I find surprising is not a single word on another man's quest of winning Roland Garros (in the article). He also tried for years, was denied multiple times by Nadal and finally got the win in 2009 and thus completing all 4 grand slams.

 

[Sentinel]

How arrogant of Nole not to mention Fedr in his quest for RG in a book written by someone else. Or article.

 

[Jackuar]

Waste of time in writing an entire book for Nole when the world knows its not as epic as the effort it took for Fed. And more so, when Fed lost them all in finals whereas Nole lost it in SF in his early years. History will see Fed as the guy who got put himself into genuine contention every single time and got stopped in the final by the clay GOAT; and Novak as the kid who managed to take away the candy because the shopkeeper got old.

 

[TheAssassin]

Waste of time in writing an entire book for Nole when the world knows its not as epic as the effort it took for Fed. And more so, when Fed lost them all in finals whereas Nole lost it in SF in his early years. History will see Fed as the guy who got put himself into genuine contention every single time and got stopped in the final by the clay GOAT; and Novak as the kid who managed to take away the candy because the shopkeeper got old.

Has Soderling received a statue yet?

Federer faced a tougher draw to win his RG but both put themselves in contention many times only to be stopped by the clay GOAT, never figuring him out in Paris during his fine days. Giving either player a clear edge on clay makes no sense.

 

[mika1979]

Waste of time in writing an entire book for Nole when the world knows its not as epic as the effort it took for Fed. And more so, when Fed lost them all in finals whereas Nole lost it in SF in his early years. History will see Fed as the guy who got put himself into genuine contention every single time and got stopped in the final by the clay GOAT; and Novak as the kid who managed to take away the candy because the shopkeeper got old.

fed wouldn't have made many finals had he had nadal in his half

 

[Sentinel]

Novak as the kid who managed to take away the candy because the shopkeeper got old.

"shopkeeper got old."
GOLD !!!

 

[BeatlesFan]

Waste of time in writing an entire book for Nole when the world knows its not as epic as the effort it took for Fed.

I think we can agree that it was an epic effort for them both, and the same guy was the one preventing them both from doing it. Roger never had an "almost won it" moment like Novak had:

And Roger never could defeat Nadal at RG. Nole did.

 

[Jackuar]

fed wouldn't have made many finals had he had nadal in his half

That's because Fed GOAT-ed his way to stay on top for 237 weeks, and the best Nadal could do was being No. 2.

 

[Jackuar]

I think we can agree that it was an epic effort for them both, and the same guy was the one preventing them both from doing it. Roger never had an "almost won it" moment like Novak had:

And Roger never could defeat Nadal at RG. Nole did.

Nole never faced Prime clay Nadal. Federer did, both peak and prime.

 

[joekapa]

Holding all 4 slams at once. Getc over it people.

 

[BeatlesFan]

Nole never faced Prime clay Nadal. Federer did, both peak and prime.

I'm not used to taking Djoker's side over Roger, but come on... Novak did face (and beat) peak Nadal on clay in 2011, just not at RG. And Roger has no excuse mentally collapsing in the 2011 final at RG. That was a match he should have won.

It's a fact that both Federer and Djoker were eviscerated at RG by Nadal. Without Nadal, Roger would be sitting at 25 majors and Nole would probably have 16.

 

[johnnyb]

How arrogant of Nole not to mention Fedr in his quest for RG in a book written by someone else. Or article.

The article does mention Federer and Nadal a couple of times. About the book, one have to read it to find out.

 

[johnnyb]

Waste of time in writing an entire book for Nole when the world knows its not as epic as the effort it took for Fed. And more so, when Fed lost them all in finals whereas Nole lost it in SF in his early years. History will see Fed as the guy who got put himself into genuine contention every single time and got stopped in the final by the clay GOAT; and Novak as the kid who managed to take away the candy because the shopkeeper got old.

If it's a waste of time only sales well tell. What a waste of time writing a book about young vampires, right?

 

[Big_Dangerous]

Nole never faced Prime clay Nadal. Federer did, both peak and prime.

Yeah 2015 Rafa was a shell of himself that year. Even Fed could have beaten that Nadal at RG.

 

[Gazelle]

I've heard the book is in discount.

 

[cc0509]

I've heard the book is in discount.

Ha ha. Seriously, you could probably find it in local dollar stores as we speak.

A book about Djokovic authored by Carole Bouchard?( I was going to insert a derogatory term to describe her.) What a combo!

 

[Steve0904]

I'm as big a Federer fan as most other people on this forum, but why did this turn into a Federer vs Djokovic thing again? I mean, the book is about Djokovic winning RG. It doesn't have to mention Federer in some obscure article, and nobody cares whose effort was more "epic." The point is they both got it done.

 

[ChaelAZ]

Man, that would be a short book really. Each chapter could be a year he tried and it would say "fail, Nadal Wins". Then one year when the king of clay isn't around and the only challenge left is Murray..."win".
Not best seller quality, IMHO.

 

[Mainad]

Man, that would be a short book really. Each chapter could be a year he tried and it would say "fail, Nadal Wins". Then one year when the king of clay isn't around and the only challenge left is Murray..."win".
Not best seller quality, IMHO.

I think you'll find that when the only challenger left was Murray, the King of Clay had already been dealt with in an earlier round!

Edit: Oops, got 2015 and 2016 mixed up. It was 2015 when Nadal got knocked out. Last year he withdrew with a wrist injury.

 

[Sentinel]

Pulitzer prize coming up. Steven Spielberg has bought the movie rights and Ryan Gosling and other stars vying for lead role.

 

[mika1979]

That's because Fed GOAT-ed his way to stay on top for 237 weeks, and the best Nadal could do was being No. 2.

Whatever dude his record at french would be the same as djokovic if he played nadal earlier

 

[Bender]

Djokovic may not be the GOAT, but in my books (lol) he certainly is a GOAT in publishing books that I think few are actually interested in reading.