You've got to give a lot of credit to Soderling who played a great match and thoroughly deserved his win.True,But Rafa's FH was terrible today. No bite whatsoever,and consistently landing short and allowing Soderling to unload with his big groundstrokes.

Elena knows:
DEMENTIEVA'S OPINION: Not everyone at Roland Garros believes Rafael Nadal will definitely defend his title at the French Open.
Elena Dementieva, who lost to Samantha Stosur 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 Saturday in the third round, hasn't been impressed with Nadal's play at the clay-court major so far this year.
"He actually looks a little bit tired to me," said Dementieva, the 2004 French Open runner-up. "Even (though) he's winning pretty easily his first two rounds, it doesn't look like he's fresh enough. Maybe he was playing too much."
The top-seeded Nadal, who reached the fourth round Friday, is trying to become the first player to win five straight French Open titles.
"I think it's going to be a tough challenge for him to win this time, actually," Dementieva said.



Darren Cahill says it was an "incredible performance by Robin Soderling." -

The most relevant comparable result for me was Kevin Curren beating Johnny Mac at Wimbledon in 1985. Soderling has always been a very dangerous player.

Upset specials:

Chang beats Lendl, 1989 Roland Garros,

Peter Doohan beats Boris Becker, 1987 Wimbledon.

Del Potro is hoping whoever wins his match against Federer will go all the way.

“Everybody wants Roger to win this tournament,” del Potro said. “If I can’t win this tournament, I want to see, next Sunday, Roger with the trophy.”


I am big fan of delpotro,but honestly i want federer to win rolland
not bc will level sampras,deserves to have one clay major

A remarkable achievement by a great, great player.

Sampras got phoned after the match and said that Federer was the greatest ever.
I can imagine that when the phone rings at Sampras's house he picks it up and says "Federer's the best," and the other guy says "Hi, can I interest you in double glazing?"

According to Mats Wilander, Federer is not GOAT. He said Nadal was better in this generation and a player like Laver was all time better, and that for Federer to be GOAT, he would have to beat Nadal in a Grand Slam. I often disagree with him but this time he is right. This RG is not so significant. Federer beat Haas, Monfils, Del Potro and Soderling. All good players, but it's not like we didn't know he was capable of beating them at RG. I see no glory in this title, all Federer had to do was beating several of his pigeons. That didn't make him GOAT, unless you think he had already been GOAT before and this title is just a confirmation of it.

According to Mats Wilander, Federer is not GOAT. He said Nadal was better in this generation and a player like Laver was all time better, and that for Federer to be GOAT, he would have to beat Nadal in a Grand Slam. I often disagree with him but this time he is right. This RG is not so significant. Federer beat Haas, Monfils, Del Potro and Soderling. All good players, but it's not like we didn't know he was capable of beating them at RG. I see no glory in this title, all Federer had to do was beating several of his pigeons. That didn't make him GOAT, unless you think he had already been GOAT before and this title is just a confirmation of it.

I get your point, but it's still a 14th slam title and a career slam. I already thought of him as GOAT before this tournament, but kind of felt that in order for most doubters to shut up he would need at least 14 slams and one of each.
Do you agree with Mats that Nadal is better, and that Roger needs to beat Nadal in a best of 5 match to be even considered best of this generation? Federer has beat Nadal in slams before, and has been more consistent outside of slams - when he was number 1 compared to Rafa at number 1 now.