Nadal gains revenge over Federer in Hamburg
reuters.com     May 18, 2008            

By Iain Rogers HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Spain's Rafael Nadal struck a telling psychological blow a week before the French Open by beating world number one Roger Federer in the final of the Hamburg Masters on Sunday. The 21-year-old Spaniard claimed the only Masters Series event on clay to... [read full story]                    


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(anonymous) - May 19, 2008 5:09:46 PM
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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