Roger Federer picks Rafael Nadal's biggest strength
In an interview, Roger Federer was asked what Rafael Nadal's strength he would like to take. The Swiss player gave an insightful answer. "Rafa has so many great assets to his game, it's very hard to try to imagine that I would have some of his strengths. It's such a different and complex player to me", said Federer. "I try to change up my game every single shot or point I play with him I find it a bit different, he always plays, tries to do pretty much the same and by doing that, try to eventually get to your mind or physically break you down, and of course it has improved much more today, you can various game a lot, but if I would have to pick one huge strengths he has is his movement on clay, I think he moves extremely well, then obviously it's not without talking about this foreign abilities and all that stuff. But he has become a wonderful player and a great person for the game."
Federer was also asked how important statistics are to him: "I have never been the No. 1 statistic guy. I look at them, I hear about them, I read them but at the end they are there. Then if we talk about huge numbers about history books at the very very top, and I was close to them or I broke a few because journalists told me or I heard about them, this is when I was really like, Wow, I am being able to do something extremely special and that of all a sudden really trigged extra motivation for me to push harder, to try more to really stay injury-free, to be healthy and playing for the history books has been a big part of the last years because before that you are trying to get somewhere good for your own career and once I passed that stage and I was able to play for history books it was an amazing feeling and being on the same level at times with Pete Sampras, Rod Laver or Bjorn Borg has been an amazing feeling for me."
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