Roger Federer v. Rafa Nadal | 2017 AO Final | Highlights 

seriously, once in a lifetime in any sport. period.

Well put. Forget the dreadful 'GOAT' arguments. They're all legends.

@@michaelfoley906 I'll forget shit. You were all saying GOAT for Fed for a decade. And now when, first Nadal, and then Djoko, surpassed him, now let's forget. You sound like a Rolex commercial.

@@0i0l0oyup here we go exactly what he’s talking about, literal Neanderthals like you trying to make this debate into something HUGE when it’s literally just keyboard warriors on the internet Clown shit :)

@@0i0l0o why are you so mad

Everyone in the world knew Federer was physically spent and mentally psyched out by years of Nadal 5th set torment. But somehow... He did something amazing.

When 19 years old Federer taking down Pete Sampras in Wimbledon, and that's when the start was born...

as neutral fan this is a day tennis prevailed against nadal's anti-tennis

let it go

@@monstermichaeltoad5705 "Neutral fan" LMFAO

@@monstermichaeltoad5705 Anti tennis? Wtf are u on abt

@@monstermichaeltoad5705 You are so rude and disrespectful

Seems like you didn’t watch 2012 AO final.

u need a life.

Crying?... Pathetic

Wimbledon 2019

It's funny how djoker fans get into the conversation... And I am a defender of Nole with my group of tennis friends lol, but this is diferent, before the domain of Djokovic there was the Fedal rivalry and watching this after so many years of not seeing them fighting for finals and as you can see they were under 20 rank, Roger and Rafa came from injury that they after said they never expected to be again in a Grand Slam finals or be in the top again... so this final has a lot of conext out there that makes more special than other final, without demerit just for the time they were playing or the intensity in every point like the 2012 AO final @@krish5608... And I repeat, im a fan from Nole too, I'm just saying try to open your mind a little bit, expand yourself friend and enjoy everything we have in tennis.

Borg mcenroe connors lendl.

Apart from that girl behind Mirka in Roger's box, closing her eyes right on one of the most insane and significant rallies in whole tennis history LOL🤣

You look at today's matches , played from meters behind the baseline and hitting long meaningless diagonals... than you look back to this thing, and it looks like a different sport, or just another league on its own.

The greatest AO final of all time. For this final easily beat Djokovic vs Nadals in 2011.

@@xaviermill7440 no way

@@xaviermill7440 This isn't even the best final Federer and Rafa played there. People tend to speak so highly of this one only because Roger won.

@@HBK492 agreed. But just Fed fanboys really. No one really even thinks of this match when talking about great matches. This was meh at best. A terribly rusty Nadal using old faithful all over to take this to 5 sets, is just about the only thing to speak about in this match. Mediocre tennis, albeit from the 2 greatest players to ever play this game.

@Sam McPhail yeah. Even the points you talk about that Federer won, he was doing all of that in every other match too against Nadal. But Rafa wasn’t running them down like he usually does, coming back from injury and all. This was the match that left me truly disappointed about the state of tennis today. I mean I could understand the argument in the previous years when these three were winning everything in sight, the argument that they were so ridiculously better than everyone else. But I’m sorry, the rest of you in the to 50, if you can’t beat THIS version of Federer and Nadal, it’s a pathetic indictment of you. This entire Australian Open was the worst I have seen Nadal, especially, play in the last five years

i hope he can win slams again 🙏🐐❤️

Seriously? Crying "hard"?

@@johnjohnnie7319 Yes..

Lol this is no way one of the best match

@@kothicamedarth2680 Lol it actually is.

You mean your boyfriend Haha

Not to mention, the shot that Federer hits to win the point that starts at 16:33. Starting to think, now, that this may be Federer's greatest ever performance.

It was the point that made me ask "Wait... can he really do it?" while watching.

watch it 2017 times. then u might shut up and see how boring it is

Me avisas cuando vayas por la 2000

being a Fed supporter, I have learned to respect Rafa for who is his even even more. But the Fed backhand in this tournament, and throughout 2017 is one of the most beautiful shots I have ever ever seen. May not be as effective as Djoko's backhand when it comes to consistency, but it was exactly what he needed to beat the guy who always exploited his weakness of looping topspin shot to the backhand side. I am not sure if I will be able to follow tennis after these guys retire. Theim gives me hope cause I love his stroke making ability. If only Kyrgious was consistent. I shall stop blabbering

@Felix Y it's "Rafael". next, to Osman, Haq, it's "Thiem" and "Krygios"

Roland garros 2021 is for me the best ! Camera angle, clay court coulour, when its shiny and players have great outfits its just beautiful

@@romainmj7245 It is easier to spot the ball at RG too. Toughest to spot on tv at Wimbledon. However, yellow ball against sea blue background feels the best to me to watch on tv/online, than yellow ball against red clay background. Not about preference. I'm referring to the clarity of vision of ball's trajectory in the background color of a court's surface. :)

@@madhukiranattivilli2321 yeah i get your point ! To me rg is just best looking court espacially 2021 ! Lets take rg 2021 final for exemple

the shoes are actually orange lol. I have a pair of Roger's flyknits here (the stock version not the ones he's actually wearing)

From 2017 to 2022 Rafael Nadal reached 10 grandslam finals and won 8 major titles actually lost 2 Grandslam finals only 5 French open finals 3 Australian open finals 2 US Open finals 3 Wimbledon semifinals.

Best ever, after GOAT. OFC

@@_disasterdon Unnecessary comment

You can see there is a lot of Djokovic fan comments and replies over here, they cant stand we love so much this pair@@sasook

​@@_disasterdontennis had to slow the courts to let your "GOAT" have a chance against Fed.

@@williamabaker12 slow? intersting.

Nadal gets the edge because he has more grand slams. He also takes the H2H 24 to 16.

@@vf2660 Way too much clay. Federer is really the more gifted to ever pick a racket, thus he will not lasts with more major titles due to irrelevant young players who can't beat 35+ fossils.

@@LC95297 you seem really pathetic trying to rationalize this. Clay titles aren't any less valuable than grass titles. In fact, the legacy that Rafa has left behind dominating on clay surface is LEGENDARY. Experts would agree that clay is the most physical of all the court types. But w.e. You're not changing my mind. 🤷‍♀

@@vf2660 You're making a movie to yourself. I never said that clay is less valuable (?!) than grass or even hard, what I'm talking about is a strict fact : two third of Nadal titles are on clay. Is there really a thing you don't get in this simple statement ?

@@LC95297 “way too much clay” implies it. And “making a movie to yourself” doesn’t even make any sense. Clearly you’re the one that doesn’t “get” it. Nadal and Federer were obviously both greats in Tennis. Fact is Nadal beat Federer a lot more than Federer beat Nadal. And that’s what gives him the edge. Pretty simple. Any other kind of justification is a matter of opinion or a moron trying to rationalize away. That’s it.

Federer played better here than in those 2 matches imo. Backhand especially. But Nadal was still a shell of his old self here. It took him a bit longer to get back to his top form

@@kakashihatake1029 No way tbh.. Federer and nadal of 2009 AO would have beaten both these versions of themselves.. maybe fed's backhand was better here, but every other part of his game was miles better in 2009.. just rewatch 2009 AO final, both players were in their prime and way better

Healed until wimby 19 that is

wimby lmao dont u love when people try cute names to be cool. then again anyone who finds tennis healing...

​@@armadyl1212 that day in 2009, Federer didn't have a good day at the serve, and overall his gameplan vs Rafa was not the best in my opinion. There was already some good evidence that hitting huge drives vs Rafa's forehand was more effective than bombing his backhand (and far more natural for a right handed player, we can add), but just Ljubicic managed to convince Roger to fully embrace this gameplan and completely commit to it. The result were amazing, from this final onwards his backhand always remained a constant danger for Rafa every time they played again... in this match, apart from direct winners, thanks to those insane drives Roger took the lead of rallies or unbalanced Rafa literally countless times. He's always been able to hit extremely fast backhands, even when his shot was not as insane like it's here... he should've tried this gameplan way before in my opinion, instead of allowing Rafa to stay into so many long grueling crosscourt rallies.

yea, you can hear Wilander gasping after the point😁

The tennis God's gave us heartbreak in the Wimbledon finals of 2019, that's the last Grand slam where Roger had Novak on the ropes, I hate the tennis Gods for this, I hope Federer finds some answers in the afterlife, or gets some happy ending, even Laver Cup was messed up, serving on match point, some jinx is on him!

Wimbledon 2019 was higher quality, up until the match points, and I'll never forgive the tennis Gods for that dastardly blow, they really disgust me.

@@pauljohnson6019there’s no ‘god’, federer crumbles to pressure. He has lost 24 matches having matchpoints, the most out of the big 3 (Djokovic 3, Nadal 8)

he played another style of tennis, but his real peak was 2004-2007. In that time he was nearly unbeatable.

You still shouldn't deny the fact that Roger has been Rafa's slave from 2004 to 2017 (including his prime). He owned him at AO (3-0), RG (6-0), also defeated him in his prime at Wimbledon. Imagine what would he have also done to him if they would've met at the USO (Rafa's second most successful GS after RG) in these years. Their H2H would've been something like 28-10 LMFAO.

@@seboskribanek6890 the reason they didn't meet at the USO was because Rafa couldn't make finals lmao. 2005 - L to Blake 3rd round 2006 - L to Youzhny QF 2007 - L to Ferrer 4R 2008 - L to Murray SF 2009 - L to Del Potro SF (6-2, 6-2, 6-2 lmao) 2010 and 2011 were best chance, but Federer choked against Djokovic twice. 2012 and 2014 Rafa didn't play. 2015 - L to Fognini 3R 2016 Federer injured and didn't play, 2017 Fed lost to bloody Millman. Given who he was losing to I doubt the H2H would've gone further in Rafas favour lmao

@@seboskribanek6890 and yet he does not have more grand slams than Rodger. youre silly

@@Joe-ff6tk Next year he'll have more than "Rodger" the weak era god you'll see.

@@anonymousLeroy "Federer choked against Djokovic twice" what a BS LMAO. He is just Djoko's slave from 2009 too. The one and only Slam final he has won against Djokovic was in 2007 at the USO far before Djokovic's breakthrough. Since then he has also been Djoko's slave just like Nadal's from 2004 to 2017. Fun fact that he is still Djoko's slave.

same for me hahah. so much quality in this match. and when we thought they're over. they came back from injury. i hope roger came back winning slams like rafa and nole to continue the dream of the greatest players of all time

Nope 09 and 12 were much better quality wise. This match was just very dramatic and emotional for the fedal fans because both came back from injury

@@bowiththeflow7123 I agree. I dont understand why people put this AO ranked so highly. The only thing I like watching about this match was seeing the noticeable changes Fed made to his game to bring against Nadal.

You witnessed greatness!!