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Rafa's "meaningless H2H" record against the top 10 players

By ATP Staff - (Source: ATP News - August 20, 2013) http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Ten...ng-Record.aspx

"If the measure of a champion is the ability to defeat the best in the game, Rafael Nadal would come out on top on the ATP World Tour. The Spaniard, who captured his ninth title of the season on Sunday at the Western & Southern Open, has a winning record against all of the players currently in the Top 30 of the Emirates ATP Rankings. "Nadal has a winning percentage of over .650 against each of them, with the exception of World No. 1 Novak Djokovic - the competitor he has faced the highest number of times. Nadal leads their FedEx ATP Head2Head 21-15, for a .583 winning percentage. "Against Roger Federer, whom he defeated in three sets in the Cincinnati quarter-finals, Nadal has a 21-10 mark and a .677 winning percentage. Djokovic and Federer are the only players to have beaten the Spaniard more than five times."

Nadal vs. Top 10 (as of 19 August 2013):

1. Novak Djokovic: 21-15
3. Andy Murray: 13-5
4. David Ferrer: 20-4
5. Tomas Berdych: 15-3
6. Juan Martin del Potro: 8-3
7. Roger Federer: 21-10
8. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga: 8-3
9. Richard Gasquet: 10-1
10. Stanislas Wawrinka: 10-0