What?? This looks like classic claycourt tennis: strong ground-stroke games and good sliding. If they were playing like it was a hardcourt, you'd see these players falling often.
@tenishotshot I'm talking about the extreme pace, both players taking the ball really early, many winners and really agressive all-court tennis. Not the grinding and endless rallies you often see on clay-courts.
The pace of the game has significantly changed in the past 15 years. Look at hardcourt games from the past. They're much slower than hardcourt matches today. You can't compare tennis plays with respect to time. You can only compare courts with respect to each other. Grass is still the fastest. Clay is still the slowest.
@tenishotshot I'm not comparing two courts with eachother, I'm comparing two different kind of gamestyles related to specific courts. Of this I'm certain, master yoda!
What the hell? First, I'm not pleased to come back a year later to answer the ignorant comments of someone who can't read. I said the PACE of the game has greatly increased over time. People are hitting harder and faster nowadays. I don't know what you mean by hardcourt matches being "slower" now. The pace of the ball is faster and players have to be quicker. Maybe you meant "length" of matches? If so, maybe yes, since the faster players of today are getting the ball back more.
@tenishotshot Yeah, people are hitting harder and faster thanks to technology. But the courts have been slowed down significantly so the rallies are longer, and the pace has not been increased over time. Is Federer/Safin from AO2005 slower than Nadal/Djokovic from USO2011? Hell no, and it's not even close. The game was MUCH faster back then, and I'm pretty sure the players themselves were just as fast and strong. But the technology has changed.
that was Fed's best chance of winning in Mote Carlo, great win against Nalbandian and he was doing pretty well against Nadal in the final, made too many UE unfortunately and lost despite leading up a break in both sets
you can tell by feds reaction he was more than hungry and would more than love to tear nalbandians performance apart and he pretty much did the last couple of sets! Pure revange from last years demolishings!
pretty close match. As I'm always saying , Nalbandian is the best active player without grand slam. He is hitting ball so clean and pace is so good. His rivarly with Federer could be even better than Federer's with Nadal, but injuries killed Nalbandian's potential.
this is what tennis is like at its best - clean hitting, great winners, all-court tennis and no stupid grunting :)
greekie88 10 months ago 6
hahaha these commentators are awesome
misterlonely1446 1 year ago
ooh la la
mama mia!
mousiehamster 1 year ago
This looks like hardcourt tennis on a claycourt.
Stylaz21 1 year ago
@Stylaz21
What?? This looks like classic claycourt tennis: strong ground-stroke games and good sliding. If they were playing like it was a hardcourt, you'd see these players falling often.
tenishotshot 1 year ago
@tenishotshot I'm talking about the extreme pace, both players taking the ball really early, many winners and really agressive all-court tennis. Not the grinding and endless rallies you often see on clay-courts.
Stylaz21 1 year ago
@Stylaz21
The pace of the game has significantly changed in the past 15 years. Look at hardcourt games from the past. They're much slower than hardcourt matches today. You can't compare tennis plays with respect to time. You can only compare courts with respect to each other. Grass is still the fastest. Clay is still the slowest.
tenishotshot 1 year ago
@tenishotshot I'm not comparing two courts with eachother, I'm comparing two different kind of gamestyles related to specific courts. Of this I'm certain, master yoda!
Stylaz21 1 year ago
@tenishotshot Hardcourt matches today are far slower than they were even 5 years ago, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
3timeMVPNash 2 months ago
@3timeMVPNash
What the hell? First, I'm not pleased to come back a year later to answer the ignorant comments of someone who can't read. I said the PACE of the game has greatly increased over time. People are hitting harder and faster nowadays. I don't know what you mean by hardcourt matches being "slower" now. The pace of the ball is faster and players have to be quicker. Maybe you meant "length" of matches? If so, maybe yes, since the faster players of today are getting the ball back more.
tenishotshot 2 months ago
@tenishotshot Yeah, people are hitting harder and faster thanks to technology. But the courts have been slowed down significantly so the rallies are longer, and the pace has not been increased over time. Is Federer/Safin from AO2005 slower than Nadal/Djokovic from USO2011? Hell no, and it's not even close. The game was MUCH faster back then, and I'm pretty sure the players themselves were just as fast and strong. But the technology has changed.
3timeMVPNash 2 months ago
that was Fed's best chance of winning in Mote Carlo, great win against Nalbandian and he was doing pretty well against Nadal in the final, made too many UE unfortunately and lost despite leading up a break in both sets
andrewblastoff 1 year ago
orange at its best
chess1212 1 year ago
you can tell by feds reaction he was more than hungry and would more than love to tear nalbandians performance apart and he pretty much did the last couple of sets! Pure revange from last years demolishings!
UnleashedPassion1 1 year ago
Uuuuhhh
Oyeeeeeeeee
mikatagahara1212 1 year ago 8
pretty close match. As I'm always saying , Nalbandian is the best active player without grand slam. He is hitting ball so clean and pace is so good. His rivarly with Federer could be even better than Federer's with Nadal, but injuries killed Nalbandian's potential.
GordonekXP 1 year ago
that win was so impotant to Rog coz , he took revenge from Nalbandian after two straight loss against him in 2007 ,
it was greate match indead
Louloish 1 year ago
i have never seen this match, never knew how amazing it was, but u should have not cut the hand shake between them, dats my fav part lol
noubar89 1 year ago
@noubar89 What was so special about the handshake?
Stylaz21 1 year ago
great video
federerbestclass 1 year ago 2