Defending champion Federer to meet Nadal in the Hamburg final
                   
iht.com     May 18, 2008            

Roger Federer will play Rafael Nadal in the Hamburg Masters final again. The top two players in the world set up a repeat of last year's showdown, when Federer won his fourth Hamburg title and ended Nadal's' 81-match winning streak on clay - his only win over the Spaniard on the slow surface. The... [read full story]                

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(anonymous) - May 19, 2008 5:09:46 PM
Re: Nadal dethrones Federer
To be up 5-1 in the first set and lose six straight games is more Federer's mental issue than Nadal's capability. It ranks with Jana Novotna's infamous choke, except that it occurred in the final set. If Federer continues to play the game he has played, without using tactics that Davydenko, Moya, Youzhny etc. have used successfully, albeit not on clay, he will never win the French Open with Nadal in it. There goes the GOAT.
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