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Cher (musician): “No doubt about it, Djokovic is a huge machine … Rafa wins your heart.”
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Maria Sharapova: “In awe of what we have experienced in the last four hours. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal – champions forever!
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Chris Evert: “The best match ever played”
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Andy Roddick: “A pleasure to watch this matchup. Unbelievable effort / execution by Novak. He was the better player that day. What a match …”
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Daria Kasatkina: “I in the past three hours …”
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Andy Murray: “You can’t play better clay tennis than this. It’s perfect.”
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Michael Hufnagl (journalist and book author)
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Carlos Sainz (Formula 1 driver): “Anyone who is at home and is not watching Nadal against Djokovic should seriously consider it. The best match I’ve seen in a long time. Vamos Rafael Nadal !!!”
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Genot Bauer (sports journalist for Eurosport)
Randy Walker (ex-tennis organizer): “If you win against Nadal in Roland Garros, you lose the final! Söderling lost to Federer in 2009 and Djokovic lost to Wawrinka in 2015.”
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Matthias Becker (Deputy Editor-in-Chief City Portal Munich)
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Novak Djokovic: “It was definitely my best match that I have ever played in Paris and one of the best three in my entire career. (…) To win against him here is like climbing Mount Everes.”
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Rafael Nadal: “Of course it is a very important tournament for me. But I am aware that you cannot win it 15 or 16 times. Next year I will come again, God willing, (…) for myself to give another chance. “
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New York Times: “The third movement was forever” – this lasted 92 minutes
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