We all know that Nadal is the real No. 1 with 2 slams and like 20 masters series this year. But Federer still prefers to cling to his No. 1 ranking (a flawed ranking) as he declared today that he is still the No. 1 player in the world. Here is what the master said:
Of course he has still won two unbelievably difficult tournaments and whoever wins those is supposed to be No1. But I have had a very good end to the past two years. It’s hard to snatch the No1 position, he knows that.
So is Federer suggesting that Nadal will struggle to get to No. 1 even though he has won 2 slams? Here is the fact. Nadal needs to reach the finals of the next two master series and he could be easily No. 1 regardless of what Federer does. It won’t be easy, but unless Nadal goes on a tear of bad results, he has really not many points to defend. I think losing No. 1 could be actually good for the Fed. Maybe he will start figuring out what he needs to do to figure Nadal out instead of clinging to his No. 1 status.