CORIA!!!!!!!!!!! I cry myself to sleep at night about how he missed that FO.
Are you guys nuts? Coria was born to win the French. I'm too upset to even talk about it.
I will prove you wrong. Its Federer. Although Coria disappeared in 06 & 07 because of injuries & a desire to re-invent himself to regain the success he had in 03-05, Federer defeated Coria twice when Coria was in his prime (between 2003-2005).
- Federer hold a 2-0 lead on CLAY on Coria (3-0 overall).
2005 ATP Masters Series Hamburg
Germany Clay Q Federer 6-4 7-6(3)
2004 ATP Masters Series Hamburg
Germany Clay F Federer 4-6 6-4 6-2 6-3
Notable performances in FO:
- Federer has 3 FO final appearances one semi and one quarter, one 4th round.
- Coria has 1 FO final and one semi appearance, one 4th round.
Master Series Shields (titles):
Federer: 4 titles, 6 times runner-up (lost 5 times to nadal, once to Felix Mantilla(in 2003))
Coria: 2 titles, 4 times runner-up (lost to Nadal twice, Federer once, Ferrero once)
- Fitness and longevity are an aspect of greatest, and if Coria could not prevent himself from getting injured and could not sustain his high level of performance and then needed to reinvent himself to ATTEMPT to be successful again (on Clay), those are negative points against him. And if he were to reinvent himself it would be in attempt to be successful again at clay, because lets face it that was the only surface Coria had great success at.
Now Federer is also utterly undefeated on clay (as well as overall) against the guy who beat Coria in Coria's one FO final appearance, Gaston Gaudio.
Federer leads 2-0 against Gaudio on Clay. (5-0 overall)
2003 Gstaad
Switzerland Clay S Federer 6-1 7-6(6)
2004 ATP Masters Series
Hamburg Germany Clay R64 Federer 6-1 5-7 6-4
Coria has lost in 4 CLAY Master Series finals, to 3 individuals:
Juan Carlos Ferrero, Federer, Nadal.
And guess what Federer is 3-0 against Ferrero on Clay (9-3 overall).
2007 ATP Masters Series
Hamburg Germany Clay R16 Federer 6-2 6-3
2007 ATP Masters Series
Monte Carlo Monaco Clay S Federer 6-3 6-4
2003 ATP Masters Series
Rome Italy Clay S Federer 6-4 4-2 RET