Australian Open 2014 - Stan Wawrinka beats Rafa in the final

[surajmal]

Rafa gifts the break back. An opening for Fed?

[adi B]

well rafa-fed matches were pretty close by 2010,nadal mostly had the better of fed but the h2h was largely inflated in nadal's favour due to clay ,iirc it was 14-8 by 2010 but since then fed's level has gone down drastically and nadal basically eats him alive,8-2 h2h in the last 10 games!!

[adi B]

Rafa gifts the break back. An opening for Fed?

lets see but most probably fed will choke

[adi B]

fed as always the crowd favourite,the most loved tennis player i have ever seen but guess rafa will pwn him yet again

[surajmal]

*captain obvious* Fed really has a huge mental block against Rafa. One unforced error after another.

[Gambit]

LOL Nadal as usual delivers an ass whooping to Federer. Federer is mentally shot against Nadal. This ruthless and complete owning of a supposed GOAT is unmatched in history.

[surajmal]

Pretty **** match. Nadal didn't really have to go into extra gears. This is more a Fed loss than a Rafa win.

[Gollum]

Nadal will end up as GOAT.

[adi B]

rafa vs fed is more like aus vs ind in the one dayers,when india(fed) plays their best,they might win but in a tight match but most often get walloped by aus(rafa)

[adi B]

Nadal will end up as GOAT.

not really,there are various other paramaters which come into play along with rivalry of h2h like no of slams,wtf titles,no of weeks as #1 etc.. nadal has a 78 % win % iirc on HCs on which most of the tour matches are played,how is that GOAT worthy? fed has 85%+ on HC,80+% on clay which is supposedly his weaker surface

[Sooda]

Im not even gonna tune into the final, itll be a boring straight sets win. The only final I have looked forward to less recently was FO last year when Ferrer played Rafa

[rkt.india]

Nadal has become like a Vali for Fed. His powers reduces down to half whenever Nadal comes in front of him. :giggle:

[ganeshran]

Damn :((

[adi B]

In 2009 AO fed 27 + reached the final in quest of 14GS ,Sampras's record.. In 2014 AO rafa 27+ has reached the final in quest of 14 GS ..what a great coincidence b/w 2 of the best !!

[Raghav_12]

well rafa-fed matches were pretty close by 2010' date='nadal mostly had the better of fed but the h2h was largely inflated in nadal's favour due to clay ,iirc it was 14-8 by 2010 but since then fed's level has gone down drastically and nadal basically eats him alive,8-2 h2h in the last 10 games!![/quote'] lol at excuses.. On outdoor hard courts Nadal is whooping 8-2 against Federer. Still people love to claim that h2h is in favour of Nadal because of Clay tournaments only.

[Sooda]

I am very much in the Fed camp when it comes to preference but really now and especially so come Sunday, Rafa has a much stronger case for being the greatest of all time.

[Dil Dil India]

I am very much in the Fed camp when it comes to preference but really now and especially so come Sunday' date=' Rafa has a much stronger case for being the greatest of all time.[/quote'] I kinda agree with this. I''m very much a Federer fan but you have to admire Nadal. He's come a long, long way as a player and while I wouldn't say he has a stronger case come Sunday, I think by mid 2015 he may be seen as the greater player. The win today pretty much makes it 14-17 as opposed to 13-18 (with all due respect to Stan). He'll win another 3 French Opens for sure so he could potentially get to 17 through French Opens alone! We might well see him win all 4 slams this year, Djokovic seems to be running out of steam; Murray is never going to stop Nadal and I don't think Federer will ever beat Nadal in a GS now. As things stand I think Federer is still the better player - even if Nadal wins this AO but it'll be closer than it has ever been. Tipping Nadal to break Federer's record by next year's US Open.

[bones]

I am very much in the Fed camp when it comes to preference but really now and especially so come Sunday' date=' Rafa has a much stronger case for being the greatest of all time.[/quote'] Similar to when Indians claim Tendulkar is better than Bradman. Nadal is not fit to lick Rod Laver's boots. Just cause Laver played before and at the start of the Open Era, doesn't mean you can ignore his achievements.

[Dil Dil India]

Nadal is definitely in the top 3 of all time and will probably be the GOAT before he hangs up his boots...and this from a big Federer fan. To say he cannot lick Rod Laver's boots reeks of bias of the kind that is prevalent on the padosi forum when they keep talking about 71-50 but run into hiding when extra ICC trophies and Asia Cups are mentioned.

[yoda]

Feck, it is a mystery as to why Fed does so poorly against Nadal. Yes his game has waned of late, but still he should at least be winning a set.