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Poll: Nadal v Federer best ever tennis match? (25 member(s) have cast votes)

Nadal v Federer best ever tennis match?

  1. Yes (15 votes [60.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 60.00%

  2. No (10 votes [40.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.00%

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Posted 2008-July-06, 14:33

whoa
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Posted 2008-July-06, 15:11

double whoa

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Posted 2008-July-06, 15:12

Yes in the sense that these players would probably have beaten any other tennis player that ever played. But that's not so strange because the level of sports keep going up.

Maybe yes in that it was very exciting, but I'm sure that there have been equally exciting matches in the past.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-July-06, 15:17

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Maybe yes in that it was very exciting, but I'm sure that there have been equally exciting matches in the past.


Yes, but not many. And none on this level...
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Posted 2008-July-06, 15:31

i voted yes also, even though i've seen a lot of very exciting matches... these are two of the best to ever play
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Posted 2008-July-06, 16:13

It gets my vote too. Perhaps there have been matches which have had even better quality tennis, and perhaps there have been matches with an even more dramatic ending (I saw the 2001 Wimbledon final and I'll never forget that). But for a combination of things -- a match involving two of the best players ever; Federer coming back from two sets down and saving match points in the fourth; a 9-7 finish that could have gone either way; the way the result ended Federer's five-year run at Wimbledon and challenged his position as the best player in the world; and, most of all for me, the way they were both playing some incredible tennis at the most important stages of the match -- this was really pretty special.
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Posted 2008-July-06, 18:30

Usually I watch Wimbledon. This year I didn't. My error I see.
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Posted 2008-July-06, 20:53

I thought the Borg McEnroe final in 1980 was better, but I'm not really qualified to answer as I havent seen even a small percentage of all matches played.

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Posted 2008-July-07, 07:23

Yes, simply the best match I have ever seen ! :( (and I saw Borg-Mac Enroe in 80)

How can they play like this ? :)
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Posted 2008-July-07, 07:27

joker_gib, on Jul 7 2008, 08:23 AM, said:

Yes, simply the best match I have ever seen ! :( (and I saw Borg-Mac Enroe in 80)

How can they play like this ? :)

to me this is the only one that could seriously challenge yesterday's match.... both were full of high tension, both featured the best players of the day, and both lived up to the billing...
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Posted 2008-July-07, 12:08

Best ever. These guys make every other tennis player who ever lived look like hacks. I was bummed that I missed the end of the match (McEnroe gave the impression that they were done for the evening when the rain delay at 2-2 in the 5th occurred so I went kibitzing and missed the conclusion.)
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Posted 2008-July-07, 14:13

Simply amazing. At 4.5 hours, they were both still hammering the ball, and making crazy gets.

I feel sorry for the world #3 - he's got nowhere to go but down.

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Posted 2008-July-07, 15:22

Arthur Ashe vs. Jimmy Connor? Not the technical tour de force of yesterday's match, but for pure drama . . . .
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Posted 2008-August-14, 09:51

I am very sad now. Federer said he'd been practicing very hard, focusing, etc, that Beijing had been his dream for the last 4 years and I was thoroughly convinced he'd do it. Apparently he's just bad - of course not bad by any human standards, but compared to his best.
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Posted 2008-August-14, 21:14

nickf, on Jul 6 2008, 09:53 PM, said:

I thought the Borg McEnroe final in 1980 was better, but I'm not really qualified to answer as I havent seen even a small percentage of all matches played.

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Posted 2008-August-15, 02:57

Lobowolf, on Aug 15 2008, 01:14 PM, said:

nickf, on Jul 6 2008, 09:53 PM, said:

I thought the Borg McEnroe final in 1980 was better, but I'm not really qualified to answer as I havent seen even a small percentage of all matches played.

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If you've seen one that's better, you're qualified to answer.

that's a good point.

In that case, no I dont believe it was the best match ever.

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