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Beyond the Baseline's ATP
By: thetruth Date: November 20, 2013, 9:29 am
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I provided the link because the article is pretty long. They
graded the Who's Who of tennis which means the entire Top Ten.
2013 Season Awards, ATP, Report Card
HTML http://tennis.si.com/2013/11/18/atp-report-card-2013-rafael-nadal-roger-federer-novak-djokovic/
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal’s banner year featured 10 titles, including the
French Open and U.S. Open. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)
The Beyond The Baseline awards are our look back at the best —
and worst — of the tennis season. We begin with our final
“grades” for the ATP Tour singles players. Rafael Nadal
headlines the list after a monstrous comeback season in which he
regained the No. 1 ranking.
Head of the class
Rafael Nadal: He’s the player of the year by any metric. The
Spaniard won 10 titles, including his eighth French Open and
second U.S. Open, upping his Grand Slam haul to 13 titles. His
season was shocking simply because he was able to bounce back
from a seven-month injury layoff to dominate the tour so quickly
and so consistently. Beating everyone on his beloved clay was
one thing, but through the U.S. Open he also transformed into
the best hard-court player, outpacing the likes of Novak
Djokovic, Andy Murray and an admittedly subpar Roger Federer.
For eight months, the Big Four was reduced to the Big One, and
in this era of greatness, that’s one heck of a feat.
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Re: Beyond the Baseline's ATP
By: Clay Death Date: November 20, 2013, 8:04 pm
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he was so close to 12 titles "the truth".
he was almost there.
but 10 is out of this world also.
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Re: Beyond the Baseline's ATP
By: Moxie629 Date: November 20, 2013, 9:52 pm
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Thanks for the link, The Truth. It was disappointing that he
got so close again to the YEC and couldn't close, but Djokovic
totally woke up at the end of the year. No complaints. Rafa
had a stellar year. Vamos, and on to Oz!
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Re: Beyond the Baseline's ATP
By: Embla Date: November 21, 2013, 9:44 am
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What a fantastic year for Rafa and his fans!!!!!!!
Just incredible!
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Re: Beyond the Baseline's ATP
By: thetruth Date: November 21, 2013, 11:18 am
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Tis' true.
I would have signed up for results like he's had at the
beginning of the comeback, so no point in pouting now.
Isn't it odd though that Rafa has had to battle two all time
greats, one after the other?
Has this ever happened before?
@Emma-I see you passed me in post counts :(.
It's on now!
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Re: Beyond the Baseline's ATP
By: Clay Death Date: November 21, 2013, 8:49 pm
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folks rafa is being nominated for the sports man of the year
award. lets hope he gets it.
HTML http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/sportsman/news/20131121/rafael-nadal-my-sportsman/?eref=si_tennis&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fsi_tennis+%28SI.com+-+Tennis%29
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