ATP News : 2005


Federer and Nadal, the aces of the season

Without doubts, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been the two outstanding players of 2005. The Swiss, with 11 titles, has been shown almost untouchable in the court during all the season. Nadal, with 10 tournaments to his credit, has passed from the


Madrid, November 23rd, 2005. The season has finished and this is the moment to do the balance of the year. Without doubts, 2005 has had two protagonists: the Swiss Roger Federer that repeats his role and Rafael Nadal that has been the sensation of the season.

Federer has defended his position, with nails and teeth during all the year. He had a spectacular beginning of season, he reached semi-finals in the Open of Australia, first Grand Slam of the season, and conquered the titles of Indian Wells, Miami, Doha, Rótterdam and Dubai. These good results complicate him the start of the 2006 season where he will have to defend a large quantity of points.

Nadal has his opportunity to approach the number 1 position. The Spanish does not defend so many points and if he goes on with the good gust of the 2005, he will not have difficulties to reach it. In 2004, he decided to do the season in the South American lands. May be this year he decides to participate in American tournaments that are played in only green courts (Delray Beach, San José, Memphis) or in Europeans “indoor” (Milan, Marseilles or Rótterdam). This would serve him to develop his play in all the surfaces. Nadal has shown that is the “king of the clay court” and that the other surfaces are not given him badly. This young man has still a lot of time ahead to develop his play in all the courts and to continue writing pages of the history of the tennis.

This has been an unforgettable year for the Spanish player. He has reached the number two position of the ranking but he has done a commendable work to achieve the number 1. But his main obstacle has been Federer, the one that Nadal qualified in once of “extraterrestrial”. He had some reason just then. Nadal could have finished as number 1 as in 2003, in 2002, 2001 or in 2000, with the points obtained up to now.




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