Zero-time Wimbledon champion Nadal now has a mental edge over the five-time Wimbledon champion.
Seriously, people. Nadal is a great player. He was a great player one year ago, and he’s obviously much better now. But Roger Federer has accomplished much, much more in every non-Roland Garros sense of the world.
Remember that Kobe>Jordan talk? That’s what’s happening here.
Nadal actually has a chance on Sunday. But that’s all it is: a chance. Nadal needs to beat Federer at Wimbledon in order to be considered a worthy challenger to #1, and he has not done so yet. Perhaps Sunday is the day, but I would suggest that two days isn’t long enough to cause us to fall all over ourselves, disregarding reason and history, to anoint Nadal the new #1.
Federer in four, and it won’t be that close.
