The Day Federer DOUBLE BAGELED a Grand Slam Champion! (Tennis Most Ruthless Performance)
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Can you imagine being a two time grand slam champion, going for your 3rd major title, but eventually, you only end up with 6 games to your name?
That’s exactly what happened to the former tennis legend, Lleyton Hewitt, when he played the great Roger Federer.
Prime Roger Federer was just something else, he gave the Australian no chance whatsoever. The Swiss genuinely made everyone feel bad for Hewitt when he DOUBLE Bagelled him in a stadium packed with nearly 24000 people.
A performance that will never be repeated by any tennis player in history.
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Federer's career from beginning to end will forever be the most special moment in time in tennis history. So much success from beginning to end with the most beautiful tennis game. Broke so many records, created new records, dominated for generations, inspired generations, and ushered in the golden era of tennis.
Every member of the big three are tennis legends and GOATs but Federer is the only one who I would consider a sporting icon.
Djokovic may have broken most of his records, but Federer is the only one alongside Nadal to be the face of the sport. Even today everyone thinks of Federer or Nadal first when talking about tennis.
Are u high😂
Anyone who plays tennis at a decent level knows that Federer's game was something very special.
Novak Djokovic is the only GOAT, every stat and feature of Novaks suggests this. And i love Fed, but please respect the GOAT man :D
@@anonusniogsonisrgnip titles and stats aren’t the only measure of greatness. Michael Jordan is the GOAT and he doesn’t have the most points scored in a game. Kobe and Wilt Chamberlain scored more. Jordan only won 6 NBA titles, Chamberlain won 11. Jordan wasn’t even the #1 pick in the draft. It’s that special “IT” that Jordan and Federer have. You know it when you see it. Djokovic is great in other ways - unbelievable competitiveness, longevity, focus, and instincts. But his game isn’t exactly imaginative.
People (Federer haters) call this a weak era, but back then Hewitt was considered a wonderkid, who was holding his own against Sampras and Agassi. It was Federer who then made Hewitt look weak
Hewitt looks bad compared to Federer, but we also need to remember that winning a GS twice puts him in the top ~50 men of all time. Only 58 people have won a GS in the open era - we can't forget that.
All of the strong players in Rogers day retired young. I wonder why.
Agassi,Sampras,Rafter, Henman,Safrin,Hewitt, Roddick,and a few others were all top notch players. If any were still around they would be top 10. Once Federer got to know their game he shut them down. Forcing them to retire. For anyone to say it was a weak era is wrong. Once those greats realized they could not win any majors without going through Federer they quit trying. Roger was so dominant he made the competition look weak. Even Djokovic. His one nemesis was the left handed Spaniard Rafa Nadal.
I waited up to watch this game. We woke up the entire household & our neighbors besides because we were cheering like crazy. We thought surely Rusty would take the second set but one can imagine the euphoria when Roger pocketed the 2nd set and the third was an emphatic "I am the boss" moment. Thank you for showcasing this match. I must say Roger said his most memorable match was also a double bagel one. He lost to a kid named Reto Schmidli when he was just 10. Imagine the great Roger Federer telling the world about that!!
Wow this is so new to me, thank you for the info, Celine! I'm glad you enjoyed the video ❤️
Federer forehand was scary back then
Wow at these early tennis days, the faster court suited Roger game perfectly. When they slowed the court down, it also cripple a lot of player ability to come to the net effectively. This Fed on the faster court was unbeatable.
the US Open courts were slowed down in 2002 and 2003, it helped Federer and Nadal.
Courts speeds literally didn’t slow down lol, evidence suggests that they sped up.
@@justchillin6314 that isn't true in any way. Where do you get your ideas?
@@dthorne4602 th-cam.com/video/eKWlOtdOJfA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5SA_8jCk4rkh2BAz
😁 Federer literally couldn't even get past a slam 1/4 final at Wimbledon UNTIL THEY SLOWED IT DOWN. (one grass blend surface change only after the 2001 final). No surface change at the US Open between 1978 and 2020.
I've seen so many of your great videos. Now is definitely the time (even if it's late) to thank you for your work and commitment !!!!!!!
Thank you so much my friend! It really is my pleasure ❤️
He also double bageled Gaston Gaudio, another grand slam champion
Dont say that... djokovic fans dont know that yet 😂
@@zvonkosolin8627Gaston 😂😂😂 gaudio ahhhahahahahaha
@@trumpameri1638 he is the guy who made more money than you in life by a very large factor!!!
@@juliopacio612 nice 👏👏👏💪💪💪
Gaston Gaudio was an amateur 😂😂
There are always ways to dethrone a king. Federer was the epitome of Tennis. He was everything during those years. So beautiful as a player and as a human. You are written in my head and heart.
It's easy to miss the fact that Federer is the same generation as Hewitt, being only 6 months younger.
Federer is the GOAT of men’s tennis.
Ha haha haha NO DJOKO!!!
Federer could have more slams but they slowed slams courts surfaces to allow more rallies
without any disrespect to any tennis player of any era. The Fed is simply the goat 🐐
As a Djokovic fan and SERBIAN i must be real... Djokovic is GOAT
Federer's forehand was fierce and devastating.it was scary
Hewitt,Nalbandian,Roddick,Blake,all these guys from the early 00's was more of a player than all of the next gen players we have today,Alcaraz is only one different and Sinner still have a lot to prove.
Yeah yeah Blake better than sinner 😂😂😂😂😂
all the current gen is only so-so imo. the players you mentioned had a good variety of shots. the others have good ground strokes and can hit hard and that's about it.
How many slam finals Hewitt made between 2003-2015 ?? Just one. LoL 😆😆😆😆
@@sincm91 What are you kidding me 😆. Jannik Sinner already has more titles than James Blake and actually has a master 1000 title and he is only 22. James Blake has no master titles and a way lower win percent than Sinner. If you think Blake is better than Sinner, you must be high XD 😆.
@@inachos9766 I was ironic because the guy said that sinner has a lot to prove like he didn’t prove more than Blake already lol
Never understood how Hewitt had such a succesful career. He didnt seem to have any real weapons. Mentally strong and made few unforced errors, that's about it.
Federer made him look ordinary
Did you see feds forehands in this match?
Hewitt had a good baseline and net game
Federer is the goat of Hewitt/Baghdatis/Safin/Roddick😂
That was enough!
He wasn't great on a slow court, but on a fast court the guy had great shot placement, solid service, good volley, tactically very smart, was the fastest guy on the tour until Nadal showed up, mentally very strong and a fierce killer instinct. Later on the courts slowed down and a hip surgery in 2008 ended up severing his career greatly.
Hewitt had a great baseline game and he wasn't afraid to come up to the net. His footwork was also above average. He doesn't look that good by today's standards because Nadal popularized the monster power groundstroke game but Hewitt was a good placement oriented baseliner.
Your intro makes me cry. Its a sum up of all memories of Fed and Nadal.😅
Sorry buddy ❤️
I'll also never forget when Fed double bageled Gaston Gaudio, the French open champ, at the Tennis Masters cup too.
A beat down of epic proportions!
Djokovic has more records but nobody has reached peaks like Federer. His 2006 season and his 2007 win at the AO (no sets dropped) are other examples among many.
he could reach the highest levels in Tennis.
Actually Federer has more records. 34 are in the Guinness Book.
@@prestonfroelick8613 well thats great actually.
Your videos are awesome
Thank you John! Glad you enjoy them my man
I remember this game, i stayed up at night to watch it and i just hoped it would be a match at all, in that moment of time federer was so much better than anyone else that i had a doubt he would become a boring winner of everything. Some people say it was a weak era and it probably was to an extent...but maybe he was simply so much better than everyone else and its all his merit.
I've never seen anyone apparently as unbeatable as he was ever since...
Djokovic seems pretty unbeatable
es por el tipo de juego, djokovic es algo como nadal demora en su saque y tiene un gran peloteo hasta devuelve todo y a las lineas, pero lo que de verdad carcomia la cabeza de los adversarios de federer era su saque, ya veias que tenia mejor derecha, dejada volea y revez pero cuando sacaba apenas duraba 1 min y cuando le tocaba sacar al contrario demoraba horrores para ganarlo, hay que mencionar que federer es un gran restador solo que al tener a nadal en el circuito se le daba a este ultimo los creditos
Federer is not a machine, so he had bad days and aged like everyone, so he was beatable, but less so. However, he has a place of his own in the history of tennis because he played the game so much better than anyone else, win or lose, and that accomplishment---which cannot be quantified--earns him a place of his own in the history of tennis.
"To Slams win, pigeons you must beat." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
The 03-07 forehand was scary and scariest from 04 to 05 in my opinion, after that it was still great until 2012 but it was less deadly and more prone to errors
Playing Baghdatis in a slam final was scary!
@@huzcer Scarier than Casper the ghost at least
@@angerisdiscipline3913 just one of three completely unseeded players that Federer played in slam finals. The ATP in that period was like the WTA of the last ten years with multiple unseeded players in slam finals and even winning them too (French open 2004). A shameful period.
@@huzcer What about the other 27 slam finals he reached? The 2011-23 period has been so weak, that for a big chunk of it , a well-past-his-peak Federer was one of Djokovic's 2 main rivals! When Federer was 29, he'd have been delighted to have faced any 35-year-old in a major final.
@@milesnicholas5973 if you actually are interested in this there was a data based study done "rating the difficulty of the big 3 slam wins" using full draw opponent strength analysis. It was done by an actual Federer fan this year. Djokovic's collection of slams came out as the hardest. When you think that 17 of his slams won he had to beat at least one of Federer, Nadal or Murray in the semifinal or final you would know that Federer doesn't remotely have the same pedigree in his slams. Add in beating the favourite Alcaraz in the semi this year in paris and hard court expert Medvedev you have 20.
His forehand was unmatched here.
Beautiful.
Insane how two years prior to this, Hewitt beat Sampras in straight sets.
Thanks for another great video!
Have been watching you for years! ❤
As always, reading comments is much fun, how people behind a screen feel they know what it is, to be a pro. Continue the good work on both sides!😀
Thank you for sticking around my friend! ❤️
Nice
Prime federer,djoko and nadal's level was insane! Unreachable..
Hewitt is the same age as Federer. He won 30 tournaments, officially retired in 2016, but only won four tournaments after 2007.
Marat Safin is also the same age. He retired in 2012.
Andy Roddick is a year younger than Federer, he won 30 tournaments and retired in 2012.
Federers greatest accomplishment is his ability to adapt. All of these guys were great players, but they just couldnt deal with the slowing down of the courts.
Federer won Wimbledon when it was still the era of the great serve and volleyers. He won Paris during Rafas reign of terror.
Yeah, Novak has all the records now, but he didnt have to compete in basically two eras, only in the era of similar surfaces, if you want to call it that. Roger being able to stay relevant late in his 30ies when his big rivals from the youth all had retired 10 years ago, is just truly outstanding.
No doubt, the G.O.A.T.
That 04 forehand. Full complete swing, so heavy. It was unplayable
Not the only time Roger did that. He also beat former RG Champion Gaston Gaudio 6:0 6:0 in the Semis of the ATP Finals once.
Federer shouting free bagels for everyone in the crowd.
That is just facts.
I remember that Finale and Fed made him look like a club player lol! 😂 Uncanny display of winners hit by Fed!
Federer did it against Gaston Gaudio too, another grand slam champion
Roger was untouchable when on fast surfaces
Federer is an inspiration in and out the sport
Why?, he is not a hardworker, he is a effortless champion, what is the inspiration forvthe people around the world?
Novak will go down as the best on record, but prime Fed is the best thing that ever graced a tennis court.
Total BS!
@@mikipope5140 which part
When it comes to pure all round number 1 tennis for the longest time, then federer is the clear Nr.1 and its not even close.
Federer's FH at his peak was a bloody monster.. I think it lost some steam in the 2010s till 2017
Funny thing, after 2011 until 2017 Djokovic was the best, 2017 djokovic had surgery and played badly, after that djokovic came back. Isnt it funny that Federer was monster if djokovic is not there?
@@miloraddjurdjic1695 If there was any player who gave peak Djokovic the most trouble, it was Federer.. Even the Federer nowhere close to the 2005-06-07 one.
You can't compare Djokovic's boring game to Federer's. Federer had much more depth and variety to his game. Djokocvic did not have the ability to make many of those shots that Federer made in the match against Hewitt and many other players. Federer's volleys, drop shots, angles were incredible.
@@miloraddjurdjic1695 Isn't it funny how, on quick courts, Federer (six years older!) was still able to beat Djokovic after 2011 (and could occasionally win on slower, eg, Roland Garros, 2011 semi-final)? The slowing of the court surfaces favoured Djokovic (and Nadal) enormously. There's a place for slow courts (and for the athleticism that defensive players need to excel on them), but too many have made the game less exciting. And Federer was never as good after contracting glandular fever (mono) in 2008 - that's the illness that brought a premature end to the careers of Ancic and Soderling and so it shouldn't be discounted. Because of mono, the world never saw peak Federer.
@@milesnicholas5973 what is so strange that federer, as the second best player of all time, is able sometimes to win against djokovic? He didnt anything important against djokovic tho
The above comment sounds like dissection of Rodger and as a fan of this legend, it doesn’t matter how he was bitten nor who bit him, for me it’s enough to know he had an exceptional talent and that he was very special to watch him, never boring, never controversial and very humble human being. To me a GOAT title needs to tick ✅ certain boxes , period 😂😂😂❤
Now Jokovich is the GOAT.
Not alot know...but Hewitt was acutually Federer s most feared Opponent at the time
Man, I miss this commentating team.
Federer was in mode robot terminator no mercy
I believe this was the last US Open played on the all green courts.
Yep
When you face a Tennis Master in top conditions this can happen
The was when Federer came into the scene way ahead of the meta. Hewitt unfortunately, was one of Federer's early victims. He was made an example of.
Defeating subsequent foes in similar crushing fashion put the entire league on notice, forcing players to adapt and catch up to the meta Rodger set.
Well, that's live. There is often somebody who is stronger. Federer fell victim to Nadal.
Back in time when USO was a real fast court. I don't watch tennis anymore because of all the playgrounds becoming even.
Federer au top
I don’t know how so many comments (fake or real) spend so much energy to said djoko is bigger than federer. Of course djoko win more today, but you just have to understand that federer was the one who level up the tennis and bring player like djoko and nadal and the next gen to be better. He was the first of this era, the first true king of tennis after 2000´s and that s just history. His style a brand. You can’t erase it.
Well said. This is the only way to see it. Federer creates this super era and push the sport to a level that history never had seen.
Hewitt just got NO ENOUGH POWER
Yeah, kinda like Deminaur today
We haven't heard from Hewitt since
Get that man a bagel.
only goats to see... the wolf nole not shown who ate them all up ...
Imagine winning 18 sets in a row only to loose 3 sets in a row and getting two bagels.
At his best he was better than the Joker has ever been
Even though federer has the perfect game i like him for ending Leyton Hewitt's and Andy Roddick's career without anymore grand slams and the emergence of all European men's tennis dominance🎉🎉
courts are so much slower these days, no wonder nadal and joker managed to win these hard court tournneys
Ferderer made Novak. Not the other way around!
Court was faster back then
Federer is the very best in hitting dead snakes without parallel.
@michael8597 Blahblah bullshit.
Former legend hahahahahahahahha.legend is forever ccc
And now Djokovic recently did the same at the AO.
Jugó tan bien y fuerte que en el tercer set no se veía la pelota.
I believe Federer beat Murray 6-0, 6-1 in a tourney...think Fed says he was almost glad he lost 1 game as he would have felt really bad for Andy..
wooow prime federers forehand was amazing, but since 2010 is his forehand to old.
But for that his backhand was to old from 2004-10, but not to old at 2017
Amazing what another 7sqi will let you do. The bigger racquet let him take the backhand on the rise. Not as pretty as the old backhand, but way more effective.
"Double bageled" Such a tennis term.
7:17 what happened to the video quality
Unfortunately it's only available in HD until that set. After that the broadcaster had a technical difficulty or something.
Federer i believe was upset with lleyton for some comments made about him, lleyton was a bit of an over competitive jerk.
This man deserves a bagel.
90 sq inch if he use 97 early he can win multiple french open
Only if someone else takes out Nadal
He never double bageled Agassi that I know of. The key to beating Roger would have been to go to his backhand and volley when appropriate. Also make sure you win your serve.
That would only work if your backhand is better than Roger's. Or if you're a lefty with a monster forehand (like Nadal)
Well, you need the cream cheese on the bagels. Maybe smoked salmon too.
When novak fans say federer was peak in 2015 you have to show them this match , ofc they will say that a 2 time slam champion former #1 and us open champ who reached the final without dropping a set is an easy prey . For real purists , this along with nadal in 2008 rg and djokovic in ao 2016 is some of the greatest slam final stages performances
Federer just had zero fear of Hewitt. He had played him and beat him in juniors, so Roger came swinging for the fences.
Hewitt actually caused him huge trouble earlier in Roger's career. Roger had no answer to him at all. Check out my video about that if you'd like. I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. It's called "What awakened the monster inside Roger Federer?"
Hewitt went into this match with an 8-5 H2H against Federer, it’s literally in the video
Where did you go fishing the last set! Such a poor resolution!!🤮
A double bagel is winning a best of 3 set match 6-0 6-0....
Hewit won 6 games and Roger won 4 games in Roland Garros 2008 final versus Nadal (61 63 60)...
4*2 is not 6…
@@komarikir6062 haha, yes
@@lilyleon1475 originally the comment said “hewitt won double the games than roger did … against nadal” and i just pointed out that 4*2≠6
6-0 6-0 would have been nice. the 6-7 makes it not ruthless for sure
That's NOT a double bagel; 6-0, 7-6, 6-0 is a bagel sandwich. D-bagel is 6-0, 6-0 consecutive sets--it only has meaning in WTA tennis since it amounts to a near-flawless victory. Equivalent in men's tennis is a triple bagel, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 like Stefan Edberg vs. Stefan Eriksson 1987 Wimbledon 1st round
No one would have beaten him on that day. Prime Federer didn't happen very often against Djokovic
Why do people say Roger won in a weak era, but never say Rafa won French Opens in weak clay court era? This is pure bias. There are no weak eras in sports. Every win is earned, and those who demean the great legends have probably never done anything in life.
This is NOT a double bagel
Only fitting he got one as well from Hurkacz in his last singles match.
Losing 6, 1 and 1 to Lleyton Hewitt in a US Open final shows how weak Sampras' generation was. Put Fed, Nadal and Djoker in the same era and he would have ended up with 1 or 2 slams at best.
Lol no. Those 2 are so reliant on the baseline & modern day string technology to generate heavy topspin. Put them on fast surfaces that require good serves & good volleying, it ain’t happening. Nadal’s got the volleys but not a good serve. Djokovic’s got a good serve but his net game is embarrassing.
NIEMAND, unabhängig von Rekorden, hat diese Ausstrahlung. Bei ihm sah es immer so leicht aus. Als hätte er den Tennissport erfunden. Nur Rafa kommt ihm nahe. Sind beide ja auch Freunde. Ein Djokovic mag noch so viele Rekorde brechen; er kommt NIE an Roger heran. Beim Serben kommen auch immer wieder Gerüchte bezüglich seiner Nichtverletzungen auf.
Djokovic solved the Federer problem
Together with slow courts.
@@knotwilg3596 And being 6 years younger also helped.
Highlights are from the serve to the point... What's the point if you don't show the construction of play ?
That's due to copyrights buddy! Wish I could upload the full match.
I didn't know, mb@@WivoRN
Hewitt is NOT a tennis legend. Understand this fact and 6-0, 6-0, is not out of the ordinary.
The day I realized R. Federer will be the Greatest of all time ever no matter the 24 GS of Novak Djokovic
He literraly destroyed the carrer of Hewitt and Roddick 😅🤣
Hewitt is no djokovic or Nadal
peak federer will destroy anyone easy
Federer had it harder , initially came through during peak Sampras Agassi era, also had Carlos Moya, Michael Chang, Richard Kryjcek.... Mark Philippouuses ... then Nadal Djoko and Murray.
If people think Djoko is better think again...
No rivals for Federer until Rafa and Novak came...
by the time they came he was already aged, they wouldn't be able to hold a candle to Federer in his prime.
How old was he? 45?
Roger got lucky, if there was a 4th set Hewitt was coming back
Coming back to Australia yes
@@WivoRN 😂😂😂
Well 2003-2007 is inarguably the weakest era in Tennis when Federer dominated to beat many unseeded players to win his titles like Baghdatis, Gonzalez, Philopoussis etc. All the three mentioned players were not even in top 30 which reduced the competition to a complete joke then. Then Federer beat a 36 year old Agassi at US Open in 2005 who was in the tail end of his career and on the verge of retirement; Agassi was not even in top 25 then. He beat an erratic Safin in 2004 Australian open who was not even in top ten then. Hewitt was his next scalp in Australian open 2005 and he was well past his best and the only slam final he made in Federer's era. His other opponent in some slam finals was Roddick who was a top 5 player but Federer's bunny with a lop sided H2H 21-3.
That a clay court specialist like Nadal was able to make consecutively the finals of Wimbledon in 2006 and 2007 shows the level of competition then. Federer struggled to beat Nadal even in 2007; he could have easily lost that match as he won two sets only by tie breaks. This was the match where he infamously shrieked to switch off the hawk eye machine. Then Nadal by wallloping Federer in Roland Garros, clay court Masters and even some hard court tournaments regularly gradually gained confidence and evolved to become an all court player. He gained a mental edge by beating Federer repeatedly. This acquired the proportion of a mental block in due course that Federer lost the match to Nadal before he even stepped to the court.
Both Novak and Andy became profesionals only in 2005 and were teens in this weakest era of tennis. Even Andy had the measure of Federer and beat him repeatedly in many master series tournaments. Between 2003-2007, Federer won a total of 12 slams most of them competing against weakest players except for Nadal in Roland Garros and Novak in 2007 US open who was just 19 then but ranked in top 5.
In 2008 the decline of Federer started and he wás bludgeoned by Novak at Australian open in straight sets. Then at Roland Garros,
he was hammered by Nadal in what was a complete humiliation. Federer then claimed that Wimbledon was his turf and thereto ate humble pie outplayed by Nadal. His only slam victory was US open against Andy.
In 2009 Australian open Federer easily beat his bunny Roddick, had an extra day off, but still lost to Nadal in five sets who had the earlier day had a marathon match against Verdasco which went over five and half hours. At Roland Garros, an unseeded Soderling, shocked Nadal in the fourth round and opened up the draw. Federer should thank him for enabling to win this title at least once. At Wimbledon, Nadal never participated and Federer beat Roddick by fluke and on the verge of defeat losing the first set 6-3 and down 2-6 in second set tie break. He then performed a Houdini act to scrape through and finally won the marathon 16-14 in the fifth set.
In 2010 Australian open he beat Andy a top 5 player. That was the only grand slam he won that year.
2011 was the dawn of Novak era and Federer paled into insignificance. 2012 Wimbledon was his another slam beating Andy and then he went into a shell.
Between 2013-2016 Federer failed to win a single grand slam. Then in 2017 after a back surgery and recuperation which coincided with Nadal's lay off today Federer won Australian open beating Nadal - leveraging the slump of Novak due to elbow issues. He again beat an unseeded injured Cilic at Wimbledon 2017 and then at 2018 Australian open. That ended his grand slam story.
Federer trails 16-24 against Nadal and 23-27 against Novak. Till 2016, Federer was a more humiliating 10-23 against Nadal. It was only between 2017-2019, he beat Nadal six times. He trails Nadal 1-3 in Australian open and 0-7 in Roland Garros. Even in hard courts, he is just 11-9 with most of his wins in indoor hard courts.
Against Novak, Federer trails 1-4 in Australian open and 1-3 in Wimbledon (losing all finals). It is 3-all in US open and 1-all in Roland Garros.
It is Novak who has beat top seeded players to win most of his grand slam titles.
Out of 24 grand slams, he beat Nadal 4 times, Federer 4 times, Andy 6 times.
His other opponents were
Tsonga - top 10 player
Theim, grand slam champion and top 5 player in Australian open
Anderson in 2018 Wimbledon who was fourth seeded then. Novak beat Nadal in semi finals.
Delpotro - top five player
Berretini - 4th seeded at Wimbledon
Ruud - 2nd seeded at Roland Garros (he beat Alcaraz in semis)
Tstispas in Roland Garros and Australian open who was in top 5 then
Meddy twice at Australian open and US open - top 3 player then.
Kyrgois is the only unseeded player he beat at Wimbledon.
So this proves conclusively that Novak beat quality players to win most of his grand slams and busts the weak era theory.
Novak is dominating the next generation at 36 in the tail end of his career which has never happened in tennis.
Unlike Federer, Novak has a better H2H against all his key rivals.
It is a sheer waste of time to even compare records as there is no contest.
I challenge any Federer fanatic to counter this with logic and statistics. All they will do is to bring up subjectives like peak/prime blah blah. 😂😂😂😂😂
If you think I’m reading all of that you’re delusional.
Who you think will read this? Learn to compact your heresy, couple sentences will do. You welcome.
@@zachb1939 You want it concise; ok let me say this.
Federer's quality of opponents in the finals of his grand slam victories were the lowest, whereas Novak in comparison is the highest who beat mostly top 5 seeds to win majority of his titles. Federer beat many players outside top ten in finals to win his grand slam titles.
@@michael8597 Rewriting the same script in a concise way does not change anything. Whomsoever Roger beat came to finals. If you claim that they were all lowest-ranked players, then on their way to finals they should have beaten some higher-ranked players. Right? Please produce a record of who they beat before they came to the finals. Or was it that most of the higher-ranked players were in Roger's draw? Statistics is usually a wretched tool in some people's hands.
@@michael8597 He beat Kygrios, Tsitsipas, Berrettini, and Ruud in finals… that’s not impressive.