how is federer the best player ever to play the sport?

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Nirvana Maestro

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he cant even beat his own rival, unless he's injured. he barely squeaked past the early rounds at French after getting thrashed the year before. by him. he has won only 2 titles this year, while nadal has over 6. nadal has a winning record over everyone in the top 10, yet federer is called best of all time? plzz...
 
hey man Nadal is 23 years , Federer is 27 years
just go check Federer record when he was 23 years (2004 & 2005 seasons)best seasons for any tennis player ever in open era
lets see how will Nadal do when he becomes 27 years
 
When it comes to tennis, the official "greatness measuring stick" used goes by how many grand slam tournaments a player won, not head-to-head records with other individual players: Federer is tied for first place of most grand slams ever won in the open era with Pete Sampras. Difference? Sampras only managed to win three out of the four while Federer has completed a career sweep thus putting Federer currently at first place.

As for head-to-head records. Has nothing to do with measuring greatness. Sampras had a negative head-to-head record against Richard Krajicek, a player no where near as accomplished as Nadal, among others. That phenomenon also applies to Laver, Borg, Agassi, Lendl, Connors, McEnroe, etc. Every great player has a guy (or guys) who they just seem to "have their number" as they say. At least Federer's negative head-to-heads are against top quality players like Murray and Nadal.

If tennis measured greatness based on head-to-head records. Then Richard Krajicek and Karol Kucera would be all time greats!
 
He won 14 slams and has a career grand slam. At least he got by the early rounds instead of losing like Nadal and Djokovic.
Also, one of the players he "barely squeaked past" beat Djokovic today.
 
he doesnt get injured 24/7 and had 237 weeks at no.1 evn though rafa was behind him at 2 for about 150. The only reason nadal beats federer more often than the other way round cos most of there matches r CLAY and Nadal is in many people's eyes the best clay courter ever. This is because they are top two seeds for all the tournaments and so are arranged to meet in the final - while federer gets to the final of tournaments on all surfaces - Nadal would barely EVER get to a final on hard.
Secondly.. Federer's peak has been the longest out of anyone ever to played the game and has been so dominant during his era (14 grand slams in 6 years - Sampras got 14 in 11 years).
Federer's plays aggressively (how tennis should be played( - and he plays with style.
 
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