Statistical battle: Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer

Roger Federer’s record against the Top 30 players in the ATP rankings as on 19 August 2013

Roger Federer’s case is quite an interesting one. The 17-time Grand Slam champion has a losing record against two of the top-3 players – Nadal and Murray. He does hold a narrow advantage over Djokovic (16-13) with a 55% win record.

That’s where the differences with Nadal end; Federer is absolutely dominant against every other player barring Grigor Dimitrov and Kevin Anderson, whom he has never played in his career.

In fact, in terms of dominance, Federer’s record surpasses that of Nadal’s. Rafa has a 100% winning record against 14 of the 30 players in consideration; Roger boasts the same against 15 of them.

Federer and Nadal are the only ones of the ‘Big Four’ to even have a 100% win record against a top 10 player – Stanislas Wawrinka in Nadal’s case (10-0) while David Ferrer is the poor victim in the case of Federer, having not won a single game in 14 attempts.

We could look at Murray’s stats on the same benchmark as well, but it is still a little too early as he does have only two Grand Slam titles to his name and his winning run did begin only towards the end of last year.