You expect 3 more slams from a 36 year old guy who has only won 3 in the past 7 years? 2017 should still be considered an anomaly based off of his age and “lack” of titles this decade. Not saying it can’t happen especially if he has a good 2018 but those are some ridiculous expectations.
Yeah, we have. Maybe we are totally delusional, time will tell.
Federer has 2 HC slams and 1 grass slam every year to 1 clay slam for Nadal, and still the slam count is very close. Not to mention Nadal has 4 HC slams and has beaten both Fed and Djokovic in HC slam finals. Then you add the injuries, and it's nothing short of amazing.
“This year, there have been circumstances,” he added.
agree on everything here
do you expect that to happen? I've honestly got no clue as to whether he will or not. I do expect him to get back to a higher level than Muzz though
good one!
Ok, so if Rafa beats the count, it's not hard work beating talent? So, you think Nadal is more talented than Federer if he beats the slam count?The others are right.
You are just another vamosalaplayan.
Exactly.
You can argue with intellects,ignorant people ,but don't try to argue with people who never accept their flawed logic and whose hero worship is foolishly insane, it's just waste of time.
and corollary is competition would be easiest on grass as only 5% tennis is played on Grass. Lets strip FED of all these 8 easy gets.
Yeah, I said competition is also easier on grass, did you miss that part?
Have to agree on this.
Not really. Rafa will load up on clay slams in order to get the slam count. Impressive, but kind of hollow.
Two certainly seems reasonable.Five? Even winning one every year that means winning the last one at 37 or nearly so(haven't looked up his birthday).That seems a lot to ask,even for him.
"I will not coach Nadal any more".
"Federer is the greatest of all time/better than Nadal".
"Nadal has utmost respect for Federer".
"I will not be actively involved with Nadal's career any more".
"Winning at any price was never important".
Just a couple of uncle Phony's many statements.
Oh, and, as though even if that come to pass anything will change about who Federer and who Nadal really is.
Nadal is uninjured, folks.
You knew this. However, it is most curious. Am I imagining things or did a chronic knee injury force convenient withdrawal from late season tourneys? Does no one remember?
This has been going on for more than ten years, but the top of it was last year when Rafito appeared in the final with his knee taped.
The tape was not seen before or after this in any other near matches.
That development is rivaled only by his sabbaticals due to family problems ( are they also no more? I don’t follow as closely as I perhaps should for the full experience, lol).
Of course it is proven Rafa needs to work harder. Do you see his matches? He needs to run more. And using that topspin takes so much effort.You put forward an argument that many vamosalaplayans did before and made the same mistake, which is twofold.
One, none of the said group had ever managed to provide a proof that Nadal works harder than Federer.
It is a speculation that for the vamosalaplayans just "is".
Two, you are quick to award Nadal ("beats"), when except for the scenario I already outlined, it would still mean that Nadal is better than Federer only on clay.
Again, a conclusion typical for a brainless Nadal drone.
Have fun with yet another "personality".
Too bad that so much work went down the drain, but you have nothing better to do anyway.
Well, it's pretty obvious for anyone that hard work means that you need to expand more energy and time."Runs more"
"Needing more time to finish his matches".
Yep, that is what defines hard work.
Good riddance.
Before we go on, who are you and what do you want? Are you Rafa or Nole or Fed fan?You are talking about tennis, so the hard work should be related to the development of tennis skills, efficiency, etc.
You think that Federer is able to play tennis the way he does just by "feeling"?
Federer needed years to develop that style.
His scheduling, work ethic, commitment and training are legendary.
That is hard work when it comes to tennis.
But let's switch to more trivial measure.
Federer has around 330 matches more than Nadal on the tour.
He has massive advantage when his wins against the top 10 players are compared to Nadal's.
He has sustained dominance.
That is hard work.
Now, back to your cave.
That's why I said it's one of the possibilities, not a certainty. Other possibilities being Fed winning more or Nadal having injury issues and that would settle the count in Fed's favor. I just didn't think I needed to list them all.He's three slams behind Fed and even one slam at his age will be enormous. I have no worry that Nadal will pass or tie Fed in the slam count. If people bothered to look at tennis history in the Open era, the men who have won slams after 30 are a tiny number. Even more delusional are people thinking Novak will pass Fed. Yeah...8 more slams after 31.
