For starters I think it goes 5 sets, but ultimately I think RAFA takes it. He basically does everything Borg did on clay, but better. He's just as fast if not faster (the courts are slower, but the game is faster), and he has more firepower. I think once things start getting tighter as the match winds down RAFA just has more ways to end the point.
Where's your poll ?
My favorite players of all time and my favorite fantasy match
Larry Stefenki said it best, "He's like a big body Borg, basically".
I don't think so I was just generalizing. Anyway, my pops used to have old tapes of Borg in the late 70 and early 80's at RG, and the difference in the rally speed compared to the modern game is like night and day.
Can't compare eras. Let Nadal compete against Borg with a wood racket and see how many games he would get.
This is TTW effect.. there is so much moaning that you start feeling if everything has become slow.. other day I complained to my car dealer that my new car is slower than the older one.. the guy was perplexed..
Let me take internet away from you and see how many posts you would make.
Which is equally valid as saying "Nadal in 3" or "Borg in 3". No one knows and everybody is inventing an absurd answer. No time machines have been created and so all this speculation is untestable and absurd. All answers are pretty much equally valid, which means the question cannot be meaningfully answered.
“Untestable”
UNTESTABLE
THEREFORE
IRRELEVANT
Stop with the untestable speculation. Serious tennis debate should never tolerate untestable scenarios, just like science does not accept untestable theories.
bit harsh, 15mins
Not sure about future. Tennis is evolving and players are getting bigger, stronger and faster. There will be players down the line, be it 10, 20 or 30 years down the line, who would have the talent and the game that would match up well against even a peak level Nadal on clay. It's unfathomable to think about but it's a reality. That's how sports work. Athletes evolve. Technology evolves too.
Other way around. If Nadal grew up in Borg's era with a wooden racquet he would be good too.
Only if said racquet was reinforced with graphite or steel.
Yup, there is. And there will be.Peak Nadal on clay is the greatest physical specimen to grace tennis. There's no evolving from this
That's because he will be on the brink of retirement.
Nadal doesn't dominate in Madrid where clay courts are faster and lower bouncing. He's gotten blown out numerous times on Madrid clay even to non-clay specialists. What happens if RG organizers had decided to make faster and lower bouncing clay courts?
No chance for Borg. But he'd have a shot if Nadal played with his right hand methinks.
