HAHAHAHA comment no': 52 i am a huge fan of Roger­ Federer but i pray for your sanity you don't mean­ what you have just written, i wish you were right but­ sadly your not, you are crazy to even write that stuff.

robertxxx111 u are the the most pathetic man I've­ ever seen. LOOSER

Well done Roger hope you win many more grandslams.With­ Rafa injured wimbledon is yours again for the 6th­ time.Good luck Roger.

teapsky of course he was exhausted but..wait a minute­ isnt he number one afterall? i mean, come on he was­ forced to play under much worse circumstances, after­ several five setters and he has managed to come through­ it with much more pressure(on grand slams) .. if he­ cant handle the pressure after one 3 set match I­ don't know why we should consider him a big­ thread.. anyways i do like nadal too and i agree he was­ very tired but i insist that this is not the only­ reason and that is proved by hs RG result this year..­ players at top form tend to react differently(meaning­ better) on grand slam occasions, but he did'nt at­ this particular time while until soderling's match­ he had an easier draw.. federer on the other hand was­ not at his best form and that was clear but was remains­ in the memory is that he managed to come through the­ tough moments and that's what defines a true­ champion!
as someone in RF forum said, noone has put a­ * next to agassi's french open victory because had­ to beat medvedev and not sampras, who by the way has­ lost very early too!

anyways, i do think that­ nadal's people( maybe coach i dont know) had pushed­ him way to much this year in order to win everything­ and maintain all these points that his body­ crushed(considering his heavy gaim).. i just hope he­ can recover soon in order to see him compete in his­ normal rythme again in London...

gooo rogi!

wow simon reed is a genius. in an article on this site­ before the french he wrote that soderling could be a­ threat to nadal and everybody laughed at him. he was­ right lol

TEAPSKY, if Federer won because Nadal was exhasted and­ Nadal had an injury - THEN dont you think you must be­ fair and take into account the fact that Federer has­ mononucleosis last year and he made it worse by playing­ on with it being undetected for some time, and the fact­ that he had a back injury in 2008?. You seem to have a­ selective and convenient memory. Perhaps a reading­ about Mononucleosis and how bad it can be and about the­ seriousness of a back injury will enlighten you,­ unless you ignore it due to bias.

"well just check on the­ exact previous final­ result ON CLAY... you'll find­ your answer"
­ Hum, you ommit to say that in THAT final, Nadal was­ completely exhausted and yes Federer won but another­ top 5 player would have done the same. It took both­ Djokovic and Federer to beat Nadal at Madrid, not­ Federer alone.

I agree with M.V. ,Deep Sea Diver and Jelena k. My­ comment that Roger Federer is great, best player in the­ world at this moment and will be best Tennis player in­ history. This guy is beat Pete Sampras, agassi and­ other best player in world in all his career and become­ champion in 2003(wimbledon). He is the best because now­ his is 27yrs and got 14 grand slam. When we compare RF­ with Nadal the competitive starting when Roger 4years­ ago to win French. Nadal beat Roger in that year till­ 2008 in final .
The reason why Roger is the best­ because he have never given up to win French Open and­ whe did it this year finally. He is the best and will­ continue to win more grand slam.

Now that pressure is off the Chosen One of­ Tennis...
Let me bring on the predictions for the next­ two years....call me the most optimisitic guy on earth­ if you want...
Wimbledon 2009 - Federer - Beats British­ Pig Murray 6-0 6-1 6-0 (Nadal knocked out of first­ round by world no 209)
US Open 2009 - Federer - Beats­ Joker Novak Djokovic 6-2 6-0 6-2 (Nadal knocked out of­ quaterfinals by robin soderling)
Austrailan Open 2010 -­ Federer - Beats Nadal 6-1 6-1 6-1 (Completes­ non-calender year GRAND SLAM)
French Open 2010 -­ Federer - Mauls Nadal 6-0 6-0 6-0 (The Emperor of Clay­ mows down the King of Clay)
Wimbledon 2010 - Federer -­ Thrashes Nadal 6-0 6-0 6-0 (The only player in history­ to get triple Bagels at both french and wimby...Rafael­ Nadal)
US Open 2010 - Federer - Annihilates Nadal 6-0­ 6-0 6-0 (Completes the calender year GRAND­ SLAM)
Federer decides to stop playing tennis with 21­ Slams in order to put an end to the humiliation he has­ been heaping on Nadal.

I couldnt agree more "Half a Brain" (lol what­ a name!)
it's exactly what i thought!! nobody can­ say that federers victory is less valuable because of­ nadal's absence.. after all what is most difficult­ is to be in the final and federer had no easy way­ through it! but he managed to do it after 3 hard­ times(acasuso, haas, del potro) and fight, something­ that for their one reasons didnt manage neither­ djokovic nor nadal to do( at this particular time, i­ dont imply that they are not fighters in general).
so­ that's what counts...the consistency and­ determination that one time he WILL get it.. who will­ remember the runner-up afterall? and even if someone­ insists on the fact that if nadal was here we would­ durely have a different result, well just check on the­ exact previous final result ON CLAY... you'll find­ your answer

Federer can only beat who turns up, Nadal LOST! this­ isn't Federers fault, he won the tournament fair­ and square and all the worlds best were there. end of­ story, and i prefer Nadal also, but if he lost early­ then so be it, and thats his fault not Federers.­ Federer the best ever??? i still go with Laver­ different era but won 2 grand slams, that will never­ happen again,

I think that the fact he did not win RG against Rafa­ is in the back of his head, but Rafa was also lucky, if­ he played Federer in this form he would had lost­ (because of the injury and form at the moment) and that­ would be painful for him, so maybe universe made­ everybody happy, and we`ll never know what would of­ happened if it was Fed- Rafa final. But i must say that­ i am delighted for Federer, this is a proof that if you­ believe something you`ll achieve it, hats off for­ determination.In the end I still prefer Rafa (sorry)­ :).

well done federer, you will win at least 5 more slams­ before you decide to cur the strings, congrats and good­ luck for wimbledon

nicholas_con2: hah, true. Federer did indeed not win it­ against Nadal, which will make next year's Roland­ Garros - assuming Federer and Nadal both make it next­ time through - an interesting match to watch.

As­ others have rightly stated (though, perhaps, next time­ with a little more tact), Nadal did not make it past­ Soederling; yet, I would say that that is no way bad­ for Nadal. He's been playing quite a bit and so­ while he may be extremely gracious in defeat (see his­ final RG press conference - convinced me after 3/4­ years of regarding him with suspicion), he may find­ that swimming pool relaxing and rejuvenating enough to­ keep himself in top form for the rest of the season.­ Good luck to Nadal, but congratulations to Federer and­ Soederling for making it to the RG final.

Im a boy and i was in tears when he won bravo Roger

nicholas_con2, and everyone can say he Roger never won­ it against Agassi, McEnroe, Connors, etc.. That does­ not make sense does it? History never cares about the­ looser. He will be down as a winner of RG, full stop.­ And Federer's resolute to win the RG must be taught­ in classes. 4 years in a row he reaches the final,­ including being gunned down last year, so if Nadal­ failed to show up this year that is his problem. He was­ not good enough to reach a 5th final in a row while­ Federe managed to fight back when he was on the death­ row (what a come-back against Haas who was ­ ''one point away from serving for­ match'').

nicholas_con2 says that federer was not able to beat­ nadal, but where is nadal??? is not federer fault that­ nadal was in the swimming pool instead to play in the­ final!!!!!