I understand Nadal's complaint about Federer getting higher seed - Rusedski
In an interview to Metro, the former world No. 4 Greg Rusedski commented on Roger Federer being seeded second over the third Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon. The Amazon Prime pundit, speaking at the Hurlingham Club, said: "I kind of understand Nadal’s point when he said you know, yes you can put at his last seven years, but he has earned his ranking and he has won the title. ‘I don’t think it’s as relevant as it used to be, it’s not a specialised surface like it used to be. Everybody plays. You earn your rankings for 12 months a year. If there was disparity like there was in the 90s when I was playing, agreed because the clay was slow, the grass was fast, indoors was fast, hard courts were medium – everything is medium slow. Grass, apart from the serve where it still slides through a bit… on the rallies it’s slow, it’s slower than clay.
I kind of understand Nadal’s argument and I kind of believe it, because if you’re going to do a ranking by surface why don’t we do it all? For clay? So Rafael Nadal should be seeded No. 1 every time at Roland Garros. Roger then probably No. 1 on grass because of his record at Wimbledon and then on hard courts, Djokovic is always No. 1. So, unless you’re going to change the whole system completely and utterly, then I think he has a fair point that grass isn’t a specialised surface anymore."
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