2009 Shanghai - Final: Davydenko vs Nadal (part 2/2)

[fbinsulation]

dammit Davydenko!!!! Tennis NEEDS YOU BACK

[wagsbass]

i love to see Nadal get beat. Thanks for uploading

[davd1986]

The 'humble bull' wasn't so humble with the handshake there, was he? LOL. He got 'humbled.'

[Bossosunga]

The doped Spaniard does nothing but defence and wait for his opponent to make a error or to get tired.

[ForeverMan91]

it really amazes me how sore of a fucking loser rafa and fed are. hahaha. Great win Davy!

[arisklms13]

davydenko: the only player that has a winning record against nadal...

[SendaAngosta]

@arisklms13 Florian Mayer too :) and according to how it is going Djokovic could reach him.

[arisklms13]

@SendaAngosta c'mon pal

1-0??

is it a winning record??

are you for real?? this is just funny

[SendaAngosta]

@arisklms13 Of course it sounds funny but pal at the end numbers are numbers, statistics are statistics.

[hordak83]

@arisklms13 Dominik Hrbatý

[arisklms13]

@hordak83 oh no shit!!

that's for fucking real!

It's a wining record against nadal!

nadal was of course a teenager back then, but still...

how the heck did you find it??

[hordak83]

@arisklms13 Nadal was teenager when he won against Federer in Miami 2004 and in FO 2005, too, so it shouldn't be an "excuse" ;) Blake had 3:0 against Nadal until 2008, with one US open win in 2005...Gaudio Gaston has 3:3 against Nadal, but they played all their matches on clay! And so on...

[arisklms13]

@hordak83

I agree with you. It's not an excuse.I'm just pointing a fact

yes I know about blake, but it's still a wining record for nada

as for Gaston,Nadal won the three last meetings

and besides that it's not a losing record :)

by the way, just think about other players in the history of the game

is there a player who has so few loosing records?

I doubt so...

[hordak83]

@arisklms13 I think that nobody has winning record against Bjorn Borg.

[hordak83]

@arisklms13 Bjorn Borg has better record than Nadal, for example. Anyways, head-to-head record doesn't necessary means that one player is better than another. Nadal has impressive wining records against lot of players, but because of clay surface. If there would be 2 slams and 4 masters od grass, Sampras would have positive record against almost everybody. Because of that you should count another records, titles, consistency, ability to adapt to different conditions (surfaces) etc.

[arisklms13]

@hordak83 actually I think Borg and Nadal have the same winning percentage.Nadal's is 82.5 % and Borg's 82.7 %

It's a slight difference...

As fot the other things you said that should really count,I think that Nadal is in the top spots of these caategories.He has a grat record the last 6 years on grass, he's won he's eon 2 grand slams and 5 masters on hard courts and in 2010 he won 3 grand slams in three differnt surfaces so you can say that he has an extremely good ability to adapt to

[arisklms13]

@hordak83 .... different conditions. He also wins at least 5 titles a year since 2005 so he is very consitent.

And he also has quite few records...

I'm not trying to say he is the GOAT. He surely isn't.I will put federer in the top spot instead.

But you can't argue he is in the top5 of all time..

[3timeMVPNash]

@arisklms13 Federer, Sampras, Laver, Agassi, Borg. That's 5 guys that are definitely above Nadal.

[MaratSafinVideos]

@3timeMVPNash People will disagree with Agassi but it's clear that Agassi played in a superior era competition wise coupled with the fact there was a huge variety of different surfaces. A prime Agassi against Davydenko would have been a wonderful baseline battle. 

[arisklms13]

@3timeMVPNash you have your opinion

I have mine ;)

[namthan95]

lol at davydenko's face at 5:40. hope he goes back in form

[mechkapechka]

Look how at 5:50 to 5:55 his face is slowly becoming happier and happier

[bjarktron]

Davydenko played so flat!! amazing ball striking

[pierre45a]

Best I've seen Davydenko play.

[AlexfromHollywood]

Davy is the man!

[69wiwi69]

It seems to me that to beat Nadal, you need to be really really above him in level of play, because nadal wins all the important points : how can there be only 7/6 1/1 when Davydenko is 28 winners/ 28 UO and Nadal 4 winners/ 16 UO ??? that could be stats of a 6/3 6/3 match lol

It's like Nadal beating Fed in AO winning less points...

mental strength is more important in tennis than some can think.

(but I still hate Nadal LOL)

[TheBassplayer888]

one of the best finals

[Axotrotl]

my 2 favourite players!) thats hq tennis...pity,that DAvydenko cant play so good,as he did there...and btw he must like Shanghai,cuz he plays best tennis there! :p

[Jamus182]

good scenes at the end. How has this match only been viewed 423 times????? When these two play the quality of ball striking is just, well, gorgeous.

[andy316800]

@Jamus182 people normally prefer to watch federer, or the matches which nadal won as their fans i guess. I absolutely like Davydenko...watching him live was one of the best experiences i had!!!

[Jaishankar100]

Nadal's slice backhand really tends to hurt him..!!

[IKnowWereYouSleep]

@Jaishankar100 exactly what i was thinking. maybe he was nervous/his topspin backhand was unreliable at that time.