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Maybe it's the wrong word, but you get the point.

He won 14 FO titles, yet longest streak was 5.

4 - 5 - 4 - 1


2005-2008,
2010-2014,
2017-2020,
2022


Of course it's absurd that he has three 4+ streaks at one slams, but there'=
s a feeling of loss that we was unable to win 6th to get most in open era, =
or even 8 to get all-time record (Sears winning first 7 US championships is=
a bogus record but still).


It's even all more so ironic knowing that it wasn't Federer or Djokovic who=
stopped him from perhaps even winning 9 in a row during 2005-2014, but S= =C3=B6derling.

Actually in Monte Carlo it all happend "as scripted", Nadal won 8 in a row = and lost final to a rival Djokovic while attempting to win his 9th title in=
a row in 2013.

But French Open was unexpected in a way.

S=C3=B6derling winning that match is for me the greatest upset in tennis hi= story and a win that prevented some serious records from being written and = allowed some other records.

S=C3=B6derling made it possible for Federer to win FO so we nevertheless go=
t records, just not on Nadal's side.



He used dirty tricks to unsettle Nadal, imitating his ass touching and perh= aps even touching his bottles in Wimbledon two years before I think so Nada=
l was probably not very comfortable playing him. But still he did beat him =
in Rome 60 61 or 61 60 just weeks prior.


It's truly an amazing upset.



https://youtu.be/mSFmM7BakV4?si=3DLxANU2iAMRzQGmlT
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