The proof is in your reaction... If it wasn't true you wouldn't have been so rattled...
Again, you seem to think that just because he's injured, there is no conversation about the timing. Not the point. Nadal is certainly injured and often. You are wrong to imply that he's just faking it. The timing of it is still the issue, right?
Just because you've said it before, doesn't make it any more convincing. You lot all keep saying how short they were, for 5-setters. Still makes 'em 5-setters, something Roger doesn't have to play that often. Shorter than an average Nadal 3-setter? But we're not talking about Nadal playing them, we're talking about a 7-months off, kind of injured...you say?, 35-year-old Roger. Stop with the running like a gazelle BS. Rafa plays hard even with pain. Do you even remember what he took the MTO for in that match you quote all the time? I'd say there's comparison aplenty. 3 matches in which the winner took what I think could be called well-timed MTOs, and eventually won each match and the Major.
Is this like the typical discussion that goes on around here?
You seem to have missed the fact that I'd forgotten about that one, and the Wawrinka one. Unlike you, I'm inclined to believe a player when they take a MTO, and don't catalogue them the way that you do. They were all, however well-timed, in that they came when Roger lost the 4th set. I doesn't matter whether it worked out or not, does it? It's the intention, not the result. Just because someone's intention might be to slow an opponent's momentum, there's no guarantee that it will work out in their favor. The one I DO remember, which you haven't addressed, was when Roger lost the 4th set to Marat Safin, after having a MP, then promptly called for a MTO to get a back rub. Roger was then 23 years old, and went on to win his next 4 tournaments. If anyone had a weak head, it was Safin, so stopping things to let him think about it might have seemed like a good idea. Who knows? It didn't work out that Roger won, but it certainly was a suspicious time to say, "oh, my aching back." You are very selective in your outrage. When Nadal fans defend him from your constant claims of "cheating," you love to break out with a sarcastic comment about Rafa being a "saint." But you're the one who believes that Roger is. You're 100% certain that when Rafa takes a MTO, it's gamesmanship, fake injury, and cheating, while, at the same time, when Federer does it, you're 100% convinced it's all legit and nothing could have been further from the man's mind. Same with the doping. What's so laughable is you seem to be blind to your own inconsistencies.
It doesn't matter if you don't remember the one from '05...he took it. As much as I try to believe when a player has an issue, that one was pretty clearly meant to cool off Safin. The 5th set went long, and RF fought off 7 MPs. He wasn't hurting that bad. Sure, I loved that match, but I won't even say you're missing the point. I'd say you're avoiding it. Roger did exactly what you complain of Rafa doing. As to AO '14, just because you can see a player get injured, doesn't mean it's the only time they're suffering something. Rafa is used to playing through pain. He says that, and I believe it. There's a lot of chronic injury there. There are plenty of times when the Fed fans claim that he's injured, though it's not really discernable to the naked eye. But we take you at your word, or I do. And you never reciprocate on that one.
Tell me what is "rude" about that, other than that Roger is the Father, Son and Holy GOAT to his fans. He took a MTO in a really suspect time after he lost the 4th set v. Safin. You, monfed, are one who cries "cheater" to the rafters about Nadal. Tell me how you feel about that one v. Safin?
