namelessone
Legend
It's too early to talk about Nadal's legacy.
However Fed did hold the #1 and many Slams were won on Rafa's watch, against the same field Fed has much more hardware.
This can't be explained away no matter what Nadal does now.
Fed had people trying to derail him in his prime but what Djokovic is doing to Nadal no one had done to Federer while in his prime.
Nadal needs to start making more slam finals, we know what Fed's record is there with streaks of 10 and 8 straight.
Djokovic may well become the masters king the way he is going also, on Nadal's watch.
No it's not.
If Nadal wins a slam this year this will have been the 7th consecutive year winning slams. Fed with a much,much easier style had 8 consecutive years of winning slams.
We can safely assume that the bulk of his legacy is done.
What matters now is if he can snatch a couple of slams and masters on his way out.
His last objectives are matching Borg for total RG's and maybe also matching him for total slams.
Remember, Nadal said 30 is his max age on tour, something backed up by Tony as well. My guess is that Rafa call it quits around 28. By that time he will have 13 seasons on tour, and most grinders had around 13-14 seasons on tour and were pretty much redundant in their last years.