The Tennis Thread- French Open (26/05- 09/06)

[Atobe the king]

They're an excellent measure for sure. That's why Haas has an amazing career, and Federer and Nadal have Legendary ones.

Federer Djoker last year was 2-3, Federer Murray was 2-2, Federer Nadal was 1-1. That's not too bad.

[Hardy]

He won 6 titles last year (3 of which were masters second only to slams and I guess the WTF),runner up at the Olympics and WTF. Djokovic being off form (still made the semis) is his fault for losing focus,he's not a "grass court player" anyway tbh. His wimbledon title is actually his only grass court title.

Fed is "struggling" (his results would be satisfactory for other players) this year, but honestly the only one who isn't is Nadal. Murray has been as inconsistent as ever, and Djokovic cant string two good tournament performances together. I hope you're not one of those people that think only 4 tournaments a year matter. A slam is the most important,but it's a difficult feat, and there are amazing players with very successful careers who never win one (Haas,Davydenko,Henman,Dementiava on the womens side;hell up until last year Murray was the poster boy for this).

@goldB No one expects Federer to beat Nadal on clay in general (regardless of surface actually), let alone at age 31, a lot of players retire before this age lol (Like Roddick, who is a year younger than Federer and was on tour for less time). Federer (and Haas technically) are some of the few players from their generation to still be doing well. Nalbandian is sitting at 124 in the world, Hewitt is number 83, already mentioned Roddick retired etc. He won every match prior to losing to Nadal in straight sets and looked the most impressive all week tbh

In other news, Murray withdrew from the french open.

Nalbandian is that far below because he simply stopped caring, he just parties a lot here (he's like... Tennis' Ronaldinho but much less brilliant ), so yeah his carreer pretty much ended right now.

You forgot about Stepanek(34 years), who is the No 51 right now but ended last year as the 31.

[Atobe the king]

I forgot about stepanek....likely because i don't like him lmao. Shame about Nalbandian he was one of my favorites.

Del Potro also pulled out of the French, so thats Murray and Del Potro so far orz.

[Josef K.]

Well, weird enough Nadal is once again in the hot spot for being the king of clay. Quite frankly he never really was taken down, he just got the injury, sad day for him, but this might be his big comeback and he might do something BIG this year. I think Djokovic is a bit scared of him.

[FrostyMouse]

Djokovic has beaten him the majority of the times they've played the for the last three seasons. In fact, I think Djokovic is like 10-3 against Nadal since the 2010 US Open Final loss to him. Djokovic beat Nadal in the Final of a clay Masters a few weeks ago, but he's looked horrible ever since.