Roger Federer's UNKNOWN French Open Masterclass! 

Extremely hard for a 33-34 y/o champ. It definitely would've been less hard for a 25 y/o himself.

Cannot blame you. RG is so dogwater awful in every regard, especially copyright strikes, and then they post their own 2-minute highlights. I hate RG so much.

@@gamerkang4648 French...

Could´ve beaten him, but not Nadal.

In the early 2010s, Federer was described as "the third best - possibly the second best - clay court player ever" by a former multiple GS winner. And, yes, five times a winner quite likely but for Rafa. Of course Novak came strong thereafter and went past Roger as a claycourter.

2014

@@Whatever-gm3on ahhh that was the year he lost to gulbis lol I remember

Unlucky to have to face the best of Rafa on clay during his most productive years.

That forehand from Rafa with heavy top spin high kick balls really hurt Roger in those RG runs in late 2000s. We can see that when the opponent is right-handed with a much flatter backhand, Roger has no issue hitting winners with his single-handed backhand.

@@khuo0219 Roger's backhand had been built and setup for dominating mainly right-handed players with quite flat, double-handed backhands. He was able to destroy easily all those players, but an extremely strong lefty with a huge wicked, very high-bouncing top spin forehand was definitely not in the forecasts during late nineties.

Well hardly anyone did really, it only happened 7 times in 19 years.

@@ashleythomas4112 Well Federer was never able to do it in all his years but 7 other matches did... Federer had a 2-14 record vs Nadal on clay. A number of other players have better records than that.

@@huzcer Yeah, that is a very bad record. I was just saying that at RG barely anyone got 2 sets off Rafa in any match, only 5 different players in 19 years. So it really isn't the worst record that Fed didn't push Rafa to 5 sets at RG, where Rafa is the most dominant that any player has ever been at any event in history. At least Fed managed to end Rafa's record 81 match clay win streak at Hamburg 2007, with a bagel as well.

@@ashleythomas4112 Fed was a bit ill-advised going around saying that Nadal was "one-dimensional" and later "On clay you don't need a volley or a serve. It's too easy'

Was the video's purpose to say that he was superior on clay from the Big 3? I mean, not even the title seems to put into question Nadal or Nole's supremacy there. Just that Roger could produce great-looking shots on clay, too. Calm down 😅