How can Federer be the greatest or one of the greatest if he isn't even the best of his generation!! When Rafa came along Federes dominance ended....PERIOD!!! The only way Fed regains his aura is to beat Rafa in Paris.. and that will be a cold day in hell!!!! RIP Rog

I think a true champion will prove himself for a long time especially through the bad upsets. Look at Andra Agassi his rankings at on time dropped to around 200, yet he did an overhall on himself and came back to being world no one. Nadal and Rodger have a lot of tennis yet to show the world, and I look forward to see what happens.

Is there any doubt who is better?????

Career Singles Matches:
Nadal (344–78) = 81.5% Wins
Federer (626–151) = 80.5% Wins

Career Double Matches
Nadal (73–45) = 61.9% Wins
Federer (112–71) = 61.2% Wins

Head to Head...
Nadal 13
Federer 6

GrandSlams by age 23
Nadal 6 (Still 22 right now... and will probably get the French).
Federer 3

lol Nadal is just scared of the Federer Forehand... He takes half an hour to serve, he grunts to distract the other player AND he picks his @#$% all the time.

@geejohng

Who the f**k are you? Are you Pete Sampras? Are you Boris Becker? Are you Borg?

Shut up you f**king muppet, you know nothing.

I am Spanish, and follower of Rafa Nadal, I think the best thing is the professionalism, respect and friendship between Roger and Rafa and certainly give lessons on how that would have conportarse man.
Surely if there is anyone who deserves to win and can Rafa is undoubtedly thanks Roger champions
Thanks to the two numbers are the one

First of all congratulate them both, I am a follower and admirer of Nadal but certainly there is a great player in Roger Federer to beat Sampras get insurance and in turn hope that Nadal does to Federer, but I would emphasize the nobility and the Lordship of both are worthy to admire in "sport" in this case the two rival tennis (sports), it is sensitive to admire and respect each other.
Both are great champions Roger rioja rioja that is safe and will be even more and I like Rafa in the future to surpass the successes of Roger, if you do not like mundoi sure will remember them and I wish that in future no too distant played as doubles partners in order to enjoy even more.

Thanks number one and continue this competitive, healthy and smart luck to them both.

I don't understand why everyone is so pro Federer. It's great to see him who usually dominates everyone else , to get dominated by Rafa! How boring woul'd it be for poor crybaby to win so many slams. I have also lost all respect for Macs brother Patrick to be so blatentley favoring Federer while commentating the match on TV.
I hope Rafa beats him every time, and gets more slams!

Federer has some fundimental flaws in his game
1 with an open court he plays the ball back to his opponent
2 On his first serve he continues to lash the ball when hitting the net or going
out, he needs to wind the pace up over time, the key issue is getting the ball
into play.
3 His second serve is too short he need to gain length on it
4 His unforced error count is out of control, he makes many errors trying for the
lines when two or three inches in will still win the point
5 His mindset is wrong against Nadal as was evidenced with his weepy presentation
showed. Tennis is a Gladatorial sport. The mindset needs to be one of out to
destroy your opponent ( the modern day equivalent to killing your opponent)

I have supporte Federer four nearly six years and I think he has a Grand Slam in him but he needs
A the right mindset
B Control of unforced errors.
Yeoldeagle

Why don't u Fed's fan (n that's includes Mr Rusedski) just admit that Nadal's tennis is awesome, simply brilliant and too hot to handle for Mr. Boring aka Mr. Emo and just highlight that one instead of "Federer got tactics wrong" or something bull@#$% like that..
By the way u Mr Rusedski, u already got it all wrong with previous statement "Federer will win tired Nadal bla bla bla.."

Enough said..!

Rusedski has right, if u guys have noticed, Federer almost plays the ball during a rally with the backhand wich he can easily step a turn to his forehand, almost 80% if the ball comes to his forhand, its a winner. And his serve was poor only 52% first serves. If he serves like the match between Roddick he sure will have a better chance or even won it.

That's not the matter of tactics in his loosing game after game to Nadal. Look when Roger was plaing with Roddik he was the boss. He was confident and plaing his best tennis. But not in the final where fisically exhasted Rafa managed to overcome Roger now on the hard. To my mind Murray, Joker and even Tsonga would have beaten Nadal in such a shape. But not Roger Federer. The only way to chenge it for Roger is in admitting his psychological problem. I mean Nadal Complex within Roger's mind. In his final Roger was unable to show his real strenth because he was competting against both Nadal and Nadal's Complex. Believe me or not byt Roger never wins the Grand Slams plaing to Rafa untill he overcome his mental weakness towards Rafa.

yah....federer must back 2 his best...
by changing style of play wit nadal and
murray

Its been so appalling reading what this bunch of one sided eurosport's experts. I wonder what makes them experts in the first place. Reading reports on eurosport on the Aussie open final,has been like a democrat starting his day with FOX news,you will surely have a bad day if you dont tune off fast.
Yes Roger is a great player,more intelligent than many of these so called experts, if where to be easy he would have destroyed Nadal the way he made meance meat of Brydich(heavens knows how that is written). But Nadal has his own plans too, and for the many times of playing he knows Fed so well.
As rightly noted by other comments let us all be happy we live in the time of RAFA and FED. The best man won today, and the better man will still win the next encounter.Let Rafa be commended, he is the King at least for the next 365 days when probably another Aussie final will be played.

Take Nadal and just change his name and then Federer will beat him in straight sets.

Post 170: I agree with you a 100%.The same goes with most players save Nadal & Federer.
When these two are in form, the others should aim for an appearance in the semi-finals at best.

The main reason why Nadal won is that Federer has got this mental block ever since the Wimbledon last year. It is making him slow, inaccurate, bad serving and not controlling the game. Even with this attitude he happened to take it into 5 sets. The second and the fourth sets looked more like in the old days when he met Nadal on the hardcourt. Just go back to Masters at the end of 2007. Last classy win over Nadal.

Please do not mention Murray as the one capable of beating either Rafa or Roger. Murray is just a bloody opportunistic kid. Same thing goes for Tsonga. He, Murray oddly beat these two superb guys because he was at his very peak in terms of fitness just when everyone was in low shape. And for the record he is a fluke.
Wait when everybody gets in shape and Murray is nowhere to be seen 'cause everybody will thrash him and tear him apart. He Murray is only good to win small tournaments. When the biggies like the GSlams take place he steps out so the big boys step in. Sorry it's the bloody media that stir things up.

nadal outpowered him ..simply as that...better prepared thats all..younger ..faster and more muscle! in australina heat that is winning factor..look djokovic....thats says it all..no stamina for australian sun;)

Fed is as good now as he will ever get, he just can not bring himself to level needed to win against Nadal. Wimbeldon last year was the key: when he lost that (and he did play his best!) every other match aginst Nadal will get harder and harder. After 5h semi Nadal stil beats him!!! That is astonoshing!!! Nadal is the king of tennis today, and Fed can do nothing about it but cry. The only way for Federer now is to exept that Nadal is better player and only then he will have a chance to win a match again in Wimbeldon or US open.