Wtf is Nadal favored of Fed on hardcourt?

[Plaza23]

Nadal is 5 years younger than Roger.
He's also 4-1 vs Roger in their last 5 hard court matches

http://www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/player.cgi?p=RafaelNadal&f=ACareerqqB0&q=RogerFederer

He's also 17-2 vs Roger when he wins the 1st set (13 in a row going back to 2007) if you want to play it live.

[brainfreeze]

Federer for me. Nadal should have already lost to Zverev and Dimitrov, and I had Nadal in both of those matches.

Man ...nadal caught a bunch of balls going his way on those 50/50 games, i had him winning there ... and think you're correct, prob. should've loss ... think it catches up to him here, he can't toy with fed, and if feds serve game is on point, it will put pressure on nadal, and if fed executes as he looked a few days ago ...he's to good ...

then add in 5 hours of running around dimi had him doing ...

fed in 3 or 4

[horja1]

true statement.

can't under estimate mental side of the game plus all these young players get endorsements and wads of cash before they prove it on court which makes desire not there

Perfect example is Kyrgyos. No respect towards the game, opponents and public.

That said, I would like Fed to win, but it is up to Nadal.

[horja1]

Perfect example is Kyrgyos. No respect towards the game, opponents and public.

That said, I would like Fed to win, but it is up to Nadal.

I was 100% wrong - it was up to Federer the win/lose this match