Charlesvdw wrote:
Please talk about Nadal and doping.
And stop quoting each other !
Nadal has just been bundled out of the Paris indoors in straight sets in the semifinals. He has never won the tournament. Yet he has won 13 Parisian titles on clay. No top player has a more lopsided resume. Whatever works for him on clay is much less successful on other surfaces, and especially indoor hardcourts. No top player in the history of the sport has had such a relatively modest record off-clay while being invincible on that surface. But the sheer slowness of clay can reward physical assets more than any other surface. If doping plays any part in Nadal's game, it is in those physical departments of speed, strength and stamina. On faster surfaces where he cannot gain advantage through those features he can lose easily - as we have just seen once more in the Paris indoors.