Rafael Nadal surged to his 3rd US Open title in 2017, defeating Kevin Anderson in the final and ending the year as the ATP World #1! Congrats to Rafa on his achievement. Will he repeat in 2018? Comment ⬇️. Browse through the best of Nadal images in our gallery: ms.spr.ly/NadalGallery
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I told my wife after 2016 Rafa was finished. Being the supreme fortune teller I am all he’s done is won one AO , 2 US Opens and 5 French opens and multiple tournaments since then. I need a new career.
there is no one who can match the intensity and passion he shows on the court in every game
True!
Nadal means tenacity, endurance n heart of steel.
Who is here after he won us open 2019
What a fighter
Nadal was in his excellent form for this US Open 2017. Hoping for a repeat in 2018. The one's he played in 4 sets, Nadal was thinking: OK you can have this first set, I'll just finish you off in the next three sets.
Helen Ivanic he played an ok tournament. But he didn’t play any top 20 players and lost 2 sets to players he shouldn’t have
porque no jugo novak la final , si acabo de ver las semis y le gano a federer
Nadal was simply on fire in US Open 2017!!
He is the real deal, the best champion out there! Hoping for a sweet repeat in 2018.
Injury
No,he body injured and exhausted after battle thiem and retired against del potro
One of the greatest US open champions adding a great variety!
His draw wasn't the hardest but still his level was insane. Had he had a tougher draw he would have probably won as well.
Who's here after Rafa's#22
GOAT 🎾👑🏆
Nadal is majestic
Anyone else notice how fired up he during this tournament? Seemed to really help his game.
Anyone else notice in the first match Nadal won the first set but it immediately went to game set match Nadal
Haha, Right. 😄😄
yeah, when it did that and he hit the ball in the crowd I was like ''thats early''
Cleanest transition of all time.
Refining the beauty of bright colors, Rafael Nadal!😘
Who's here after Rafa's 2019 US Open victory? #19
NADAL SAVED TENNIS!!!
Me
#20!!!!!!!!!!
I would kid to correct you #20
Me
Such a legend and great player
Im watching it just before 2021 us open and can't wait to see nadal to win
NADAL Against the World!!!
Taro Daniel was on fire but nadal sprinkled him easily
The greatest of all time! If you don't understand why, don't worry, my video analysis explains it all. I'll have more coming out soon to add to it.
@Natpugit Pakseubzin just speaking the truth since the world so badly needs it :)
@Natpugit Pakseubzin if you say that Rafa is the greatest of all time, you are a fanboy of Rafa, but if you say Federer is the best its okay...
@@pedrolidata rafa is better than fed absolutely no question about that man 😉
@@pedrolidata Federer aka the guy who played in the weakest tennis era possible and is still only 2 slams higher than Nadal and has a 15-24 h2h against the guy? Lol next joke please.
Gherbi Hicham Lol, Nadull who has only won 6 slams outside of clay, one being at USO ‘17 when he won without playing one player in the top 25. What a joke. He should be praying to the gods that Delpo defeated Fed that year letting him not suffer another beatdown by the “Weak Era” GOAT.
Proud of you Nadal 2017 is the Best year for you.
Juan Rios Jr. I disagree as he was in over 10 finals and Claimed Indian Wells Montreal and Cincinnati so 3 hard court masters and the French and US Open in the 2013 season
both are wrong. best year is 2010-french open, us open and wimbledon.
@@tvo006 also disagree. 😁 For me 2008 nadal ist a monster. Destroyed federer in French open. And than win in his "living room" greatest match ever. Plus a few masters 1000. And his longest winning streak. And the longest winning streak over 3 surfaces
@columbo, Grand Slam is the biggest achievement in tennis= Universal Truth> your opinion.
@@tvo006 hhhh🤣🤣😁👍🏻
GREATTTT CHAMPION...WONDERFUL TENNIS..A RÉAL WARRIOR PLAYING TENNIS. .
michaela mitulet In 2016 I voted for Stan Wawranka but in 2017 this year I Voted for Rafael Nadal.
michaela mitulet He is a warrior for sure!
I Think Rafa Win 7th USO.... VAMOS RAFA🇪🇸🇪🇸🔥🔥💪🏻
Nadal he will still no.1 and he's great fighter
The simple fact that he beat del poltro on hard court is awesome
is portro good at hard court?
아빠코코 del potros forehand is just beastly especially on hard courts.
The fact that he bagelled del Potro on hard is even more impressive.
Nadal the king on us Open 💗💗💪💪💖💖💖💖🇪🇸🇪🇸vamos Rafa
Rafa se dejo la piel en US Open , todos los años
Give us one more USO Rafa, just one more, tu puedes vamos!!!
Wohoo
One more AO first.
@@josephhall1049 If there was only one more slam left in his tank I would take one more AO ahead of any other slam.
@@valdencorr2861 wish granted!
@@josephhall1049 he did get that first lol
GOAT!
¡Grande Rafa!. ¡Qué mostro!.
This was the match that convinced me Rafa was going to us open.
Mi querido campeon
congrats nadal won us open three times, epic battle, fan from indonesia
4th
I think he never really expected to win this title, he looks very happy
King of tennis
Siempre les deja ganar un set, NADAL eres cojonudo.
Rafa is the goat, he works way harder than Fed
Nadal will surely win 5 or plus US open✌️
Yago Kim won his 4th now👍🏆🎾
@@ianwalters11 5th next year
@@zahedkazi8294 nope he's not playing
@@Laland_1196 this did not age well
@@andrejmitrovic4958 it will age well in next year ..Till 40 I hope rafa will be favourite in US..Only is injury is stopping him
POWERFUL ATTRACTIVE AND NICE GAME...... BOTH PLAYERS IS STAMINA FULL, PRACTICE FULL, TECHNICAL FULL, AND STRONG FULL...... BUT WINER IS WONDERFUL......
Already 3 times US open champion. this year we nadal fans are waiting for the 4th us open title.
Waiting for a 5th now!
@@brianmannion7097 imagine being a "clay specialist" and having more US Opens than the "hard court GOAT"
wish granted
God he flattened Rublev
This man is a great
La esprecion de lo que no es normal.nadal esfuerzo.trabajo
Great awakening from rafa nadal
Anyone after the semifinal of 2019 of raf🤘🤘
I'm here after Rafa winning his #4 USO and #19 Grand Slam!!!
Rafaaa Vamosss Rafaaa.. 😍😍
These five setters are all about endurance. When you get the first set, you have to keep that energy going through the match.
Nadal is the best
Ігор Олійник 2016 I voted for Stan Wawranka but This year I voted Rafael Nadal.
Ігор Олійник yes no doith un thtat
Nadal is so ugly
Cersei Lannister waht did you say Nadal ugly you are ugly oki Nadal hé is gretest légende and champion oki
In clay
2017 was a Fantastic Year Good Nadal you where the last player to win the U.S Open logo before it was change.🇺🇸
Brilliant Nadal! 💞💞💞💞💞
Nadal is a great player
It's incredible how winning the first set against Nadal means absolutely nothing 😅
Wild play
passing shots from warrior nadal & tiger wood watching
Wow amazing GOAT
Why lol it's the reality lmfao
Seascorp Scorpio dream on. The draw was for him and against Federer. He vs all the easy players. BTW, Rafa has a game of NOW(2018) overpowering players, and getting huge power. It’s why he sucks on grass as his backswing is to big.
Anderson destroyed Federer at Wimbledon. So if Anderson "sucks", then Federer is done. If Federer isn't done, then Anderson is good. Nadal also destroyed Del Potro, a GS winner.
Woineey P Prime Nadal beats Prime Fed on grass.
@man bat Monofrauderer
It Was A Golden Year, After 2010 Federer And Nadal Won All Four GrandSlam Of The Year.
Should have shown more of the semi final vs Delpo. The last 3 sets of that match Nadal was another level. I wouldn't be complaining were it not for 'US Open Tennis Championships' having taken down all the other KZheadrs highlights of that match. Poor form. Respect to Rafa though ;)
Don't know what happens to Delpo,he wins first set,then loses 2nd 6-0. He's done that in the Davis cup too against Rafa. 11:01 Rafa's speed to the net on that point is incredible! 31 years old & still that fast is awesome!
Taro Daniel was 6-4 2-0 up and then got smoked
Bring out more videos of nadal
Huge 👏👏👏🏆🎾
Champion
i feel rafa's ground strokes were more penetrating in 2017 than in 2019...and flatter as well.
It's the Carlos Moya effect. This style of tennis in 2017 would not have pulled through in that fifth set vs Medvedev in 2019. Moya got Nadal in 2019 to hit a lot better 120+ mph first serves and not care about the style points known as first serve % in. Moya also coached Nadal to use drop shots, serve/volley, and completely change tactics as an emergency option if the match completely turns against him. Nadal only won in that final set due to stepping up to return Medvedev's 120+ mph first serve bombs. Imagine 2017 Nadal returning those Medvedev first serves from 20 feet behind the baseline like he did with Anderson. He also used serve and volley to win the 2019 USO F. Nadal won 17 of 20 S&V points vs Medvedev and came to the net like 70 times, winning almost 80% of net points. Remember that Nadal's draw from 1R to QF was not very hard in 2017. Delpo and Anderson were very tough but did not offer that crazy insane defensive/chameleon style of tennis that Medvedev did in the final due to Medvedev's fantastic tennis IQ/changing of tactics.
@@nogoodnameleft solid analysis
@@nogoodnameleft amazing thanks for the info
bruh at 0:30 they made such a smooth cut to make it look like Nadal was celebrating winning the match after winning the first set.
I think Rafa can win more Wimbledons if the schedule is not too close to the French Open. I wish they would move up the French Open to March or April. The FO and Wimbley are too closely scheduled.
The goat
Tennis experts have calculated that Rafa missed 3 years of GS tournaments, 12 titles, through injury. And yet he stayed neck and neck with Djoko, until 2023, when yet again injury forced him to withdraw from R Garros. My guess is he wd have won it, if he'd been fit (considering he has won it at least twice when he was not 100% healthy). Neither Fed or Djoko have missed that number of GS tournaments. And again, numerous pundits have said how different things wd have undoubtedly been if 2 of the GS were played on clay, instead of 2 on hardcourts. Same for end of year championships. Why are they always played indoors? I don't need to make excuses for Rafa, his record speaks for itself, but it's a plain fact that without his chronic injuries, he wd have won many more GS titles, and despite all that was tied with Djoko until RG 2023. He has also won Gold in both singles and doubles at the Olympics. Injury again prevented him from defending his Gold singles at 2012 Olympics, and defending his 2008 Wimbledon crown, which I'm positive he'd have reclaimed in 2009. Then it wd have been Rafa with the record number.
Nadal is the best player in the world
Zihan Khan djoko
absolutely rafa is the best
Nadal - rublev: battle of the forehand “bweeeeh”
Rublev’s grunt is so annoying
@@callum5244 That's because it's not realistic.
I’m here after 21nd Rafa’s win
nadal champions us open 2021
Goods
Hopefully, he ll repat it in 2020 along wt Roland Garros gs. D u wish him t same?
Rusdayati Idrus I’m from the future... I have bad news
Caronavirus
covid be like : bruh
It looks like he's not playing US Open
He won RG but didn’t participate in the Us Open
Seeks to be the only player in the open era to win at least two grand slam in the big four, a magnificent record. From my point of view, would make the most complete. Federer and Djokovic could do it by winning another RG, Nadal another AO.
Djokovic is the only who has done that so far.
@@justdev8965 and now nadal! most complete players in the history of tennis
Who is here, final 2019. I thought he won it already?
I like the neon pink, white, and black he wore in this tournament.
I was here for de 21 as usual!
2 AO 13 French Open 4Us Open and 2 Wimbledon : Year 1/22
Nadal was a bit lucky with the draw, and he was a bit lucky that Warinka and Murray and maybe Djokovich were out. But I swear watching his last matches of the tournament that he was by far the best player out there. Heck he deserves it. There’s no doubt in my mind.
So unlucky to retire with injury so deep in the tournament in 2018. He looked really good last week when he won the Rogers Cup (against Medvedev who is in amazing up and coming form who beat Djokovic in semis yesterday and won first ATP1000 today against Goffin) and he has been very careful not to play much on hard courts. I really feel he can win US Open again this year to make it 4 wins there and a19th grand slam.🎾👍🏆
I'm sure Djoko and Fed did have the same luck with the draw, specially when you're ranked #1. It's not luck I guessed, it's skills, talent, endurance etc...
@@alfonsojacob1768 This is a cakewalk grand slam aside from Del Potro. All the other opponents of Nadal have a combined 0 masters, atp finals, grand slam trophies
@@chamindujanith6337 Not Nadal's fault that Djokovic, Murray, and Wawrinka were all injured and had to withdraw and Federer couldn't take care of Del Potro despite having set points in the 3rd set (and he would have likely finished off Delpo in 4 sets). The other Big 5 members took advantage of other top players' injuries too. This is Nadal's only Grand Slam where so many top rivals of his were injured and out. Btw, are you really not going to talk about how Anderson validated his 2017USO performance when he beat Federer at the 2018 Wimbledon QF and was the Wimbledon finalist in 2018? Pretty sad for you if you are a Fed fan, huh? Nadal beat somebody (Anderson) who beat the 2017 Wimbledon defending champ Federer in the 2018 Wimbledon QF after Federer had a match point in the 3rd set for a straight sets victory but Anderson saved it and won it in FIVE SETS!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@nogoodnameleft Nadal had multiple embarrassing losses at Wimbledon. Loosing to guys like Rosol, Darcis, Brown who are no way near the level of a Kevin Anderson. That doesn't mean anything. Nadal had multiple cakewalk draws at grand slams and is essentially a one trick pony overall compared to Federer and Djokovic. If Federer didn't ran into Djokovic like 20 times in Grand slam semis/finals he would easily have more grand slams than Nadal who more often than not looses in the early rounds(avoiding embarassment from Federer/Djokovic) outside the clay grandslam.
2017 draw was very easy. This year(2019) it's tough, he is again facing Khachanov(quaters) and Thiem(SF) and further Isner/Cilic awaits him in 4th round.
None of the players you mentioned stand a chance against Rafa in full flow. Moreover, they may fall by the wayside before facing him. Having said that he has to get past a guy in first round who took Federer out, last year. But yes, his draw is challenging.
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 US Open.
Actually when we look at it now. Based on the players Nadal's US Open 2017 victory is better than his US Open 2019 victory. Because Medvedev is below an inform Del Potro.
This video shows more of Nadal losing points rather than him winning. Fire this editor.
2017 had a decimated field with a lot of top 10 players not playing. Still Nadal would've had an excellent shot even if everyone was playing.
An inform Del Potro is a better player than all of your top 10 players outside the big 5 combined.😂😂😂
all of nadals rounds were in the arthur ashe stadium
dancing king of RG at USO
Big kev!
👏👏👏👏👏
I think Rafa still has one more USO title to win.
নাদাল🥰
👏👏👏👌
who is here after Nadal became the winner of highest grand slam of all time?
Baby Rublev!
21 GS
It's getting kinda boring watchng Nadal win Roland garros. But is still pretty exciting watching him go for the hardcourts, especially the us open.
I don't find it boring watching Rafa win Roland Garros. It's watching the Master teach everyone else.
Does anyone have rafas night shirt in medium? Willing to pay what it costed at launch
Y cuando creen que ya lo tienen ganado, ¡¡¡ zas !!! En todo el hocico.
Nathan. Lifska Maria sharapova and serena williams do the same thing don't walk on lines , not weird at all
King of clay forever.... Rafa
Nadal🏆💞👍👏👈
I Love Roger, but i really love Rafa too... I'm crazy? 😁 Or I'm a lucky guy? 😂
You're normal! The ones who hate one but worship the other are the crazy ones!
Djokovic, Nadal and Federer are all gods in their own way
@@TheVolshebny oni o nadalu i federeru dođes ti i o djokovicu😂😂
Have you realised where Nadal heads to the chair, instead of going straight to the chair, he goes to the line in the middle of the court and walks around it, and then goes to the chair, very weird.
Nathan Lifska he has so many rituals and he's been doing that for ages. Where have u been LOL
L B 😂