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 Söderling.

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.

Söderling winning that match is for me the greatest upset in tennis history and a win that prevented some serious records from being written and allowed some other records.

Söderling made it possible for Federer to win FO so we nevertheless got records, just not on Nadal's side.



He used dirty tricks to unsettle Nadal, imitating his ass touching and perhaps even touching his bottles in Wimbledon two years before I think so Nadal 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=LxANU2iAMRzQGmlT
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