The great thing about matches involving Nadal is that besides their stunning level of play, they are also very eye candy due to his unlimited physical beauty.It's like 2 birds with 1 stone!
Agreed, it was quantity over quality...the clueless might buy into the hype because of the duration but let’s get real, the rallies were consistently long because neither has enough offensive ability to finish the points. If in doubt just ask Fed, Wawrinka (when he is on) how to play offence. Attrition wise yes, they covered enough mileage to be in the record books.
Could have used an emoticon, then, perhaps.
Rather contentious match. And I'm not talking about the Nadal fans. At least we're sanguine about it.
That list was never meant to be more than a conversation opener, which I think I said in the OP. I put a recent one on that was 3 sets, as a talking point. It was an exciting match. Most don't think that 3-setters qualify. Part of the point was to elicit that from people, as an opinion. I'm perfectly happy if you think that Wawrinka d. Djokovic is better. Noting, that it's a Bo5. Part of the point of the examples. Bo3 don't seem to make the grade for most people.
As a Novak fanboy, you can only speak for yourself. Those who did watch could only marvel at the shot making from both at the highest level, much unlike those endless counter punching rallies that go on forever where neither player is offensive enough. FO 2015 was a good example, Stan beat him with extraordinary shot making when Novak was having his second best run of his career. Actually in Novak’s best run (2011) Fed also beat him with insane shot making at FO.
