Re: just think....



Jughead wrote:

coop-a-loop wrote:

Who knows how events would have played out if Fed had won 1 or both RG
titles. Looking back, it does look like Nadal is the only person that
prevented Federer from Graf/Nav type Grand Slam run.

Results would play out differently. For example, if Federer had won RG
this year, chances are Nadal would have conquered him at Wimbledon.


How so?. He probably would have had the psychological edge of beating
Nadal in a slam final and that too on Nadal's favourite surface.

-Aravind

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Weren't people concluding that Nadal would win Wimbledon this year because he had beaten Federer at the FO and therefore owned his head going into the final?

Losing at RG will shake Nadal's confidence in a manner similar to a Federer loss at Wimbledon. It will make the rest of the field believe that they (Federer and Nadal) are mortals after all.

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Cheers,

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