Je viens de lire ça dans des commentaires d'un article anglais disant que Nadal est le plus grand joueur de tous les temps:
The World Tour Finals, that "insignificant" 1.5K tournament Nadal has yet to win. It's another story when Nadal has to play only against the other 7 best in the world in the same tournament, no ?
I will re-post another comment found on the ATP comments section years ago, see how you like it:
"This article
http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/(...)NC_01 reports that, on the 19th of May 2009, so exactly just FIVE DAYS before the start of Roland-Garros, the AFLD (French anti-doping agency renowned for its uncompromising stance) announces that it had negociated with the ITF the right to conduct TARGETED, UNANNOUNCED tests at Roland-Garros.
On Friday 29th, day 6 of Roland-Garros, two days before his fateful match against Soderling, Rafael Nadal complains vehemently about anti-doping and announces that, the other morning, his good friends David Ferrer and Fernando Verdasco were woken up at 6 am for UNANNOUNCED testing. He gets blasted by the Telegraph in this article :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/spo(...).html
On the same day, David Ferrer loses against Soderling. Two days later, Nadal and Verdasco exit the tournament.
After Roland-Garros has ended, the AFLD announced it has conducted 20 additional targeted test (link :
http://www.rmc.fr/editorial/80(...)ires/).
It was the first and last year the AFLD was allowed to conduct TARGETED, UNANNOUNCED tests at the French Open.
Let everyone form his own conclusions."
In 2011, at almost 30 years old, Fed destroyed Nole in the RG SF in one of the greatest matches ever (Nole was in the best form ever, unbeaten in 43 consecutive matches).
In the final against Nadal, some things happened that had happened before. At 2-5 down and Fed serving for the first set, Nadal took an almost 9 minutes MTO for a knee injury (max allowed during the set is 3 minutes).
He exited the court (allowed only in special circumstances), returned after almost 9 minutes, ran like a rabbit with his injured knee, took the set (!) and subsequentially, the match.
Everybody could see Nadal gained speed after the knee injury, he did not lose speed. If I remember correctly, the English commenters said on air that they would "love to have Nadal's doctors".
Nadal had done this to Fed in the 2006 Monte Carlo and 2008 Hamburg finals also, Fed blowing a substantial lead in both.
https://anygivensurface.wordpr(...)-mto/ That is gamesmanship in my book.
And that in my opinion is Nadal's trademark.
Biosmog: "T'es franchement pathétique."
