Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal: The War of the Report Cards

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Published: November 2, 2010

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I have shied away from tackling the Greatest Of All Time (GOAT) debate for some time because:

1> I think it’s been done to death.

2> It’s gotten to be tiresome; there’s little new under the sun to be said about the great Federer – Nadal rivalry.

3> It’s the season end and just as the players will be taking a well-deserved break , so should B/R writers take a rest from this acrimonious topic.

4> I feel the other players deserve some space and time devoted to them.

But since there seems to be no abatement of interest in the subject , I will have another dekko at the risk of seeming repetitive.

 Frankly, the whole debate seems a bit unfair to Nadal. It’s like looking at two students: one senior , the other a few years junior.One has graduated and post-graduated with honours and is doing a few extra courses just to round out his grades.The other has presented his half-term report; it is an excellent one, a fantastic one. He has outdone his senior in some respects and his trajectory has shown a sharper, upward curve.He’s even taken on a few courses that his senior deigned to tackle much later.But yet there is the feeling of incompleteness, a feeling as though the elder statesman is the favoured one because the younger man is still a work in progress.

The elder Federer had taken the world by storm, completely eclipsing the accomplishments of his predecessors in the tennis school.It’s as though the sport is now identified by Federer; the stature of both past and present players is judged against his luminescence.It’s no longer about how Federer compares to the others; it’s about how the others compare to Federer. That’s undeniable.

Let’s take a retrospective look back at  how Federer and Nadal have reached this point in their respective careers.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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