Roger Federer Now Has 2 Career Double Bagels, More Than Nadal And Djokovic Combined [Chart]

I’ve never seen a more useless chart. For whatever reason, I’m not surprised to see Nadal has never double bageled someone (although I’m surprised that I’m not surprised because it is surprising considering how hard he plays most games).

I remember that Gaudio match. That’s as embarrassing as a double bagel gets. Semifinals of a big event? You’re a top 10 player and a former GS champ and you let that happen? It wasn’t even a blitz. A lot of the games were close, especially on Gaudio’s serve. Just one of those days, I guess.

June 14th, 2013 at 9:21 am

Fed’s equalled Andy M. for double bagels. Nice. Now Nole needs another and they’ll have 2 bagels each. All they need is some cheese.

June 14th, 2013 at 9:25 am

Have you seen this chart Ben?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bagel_Award

June 14th, 2013 at 9:26 am

Ben Pronin LOL to that post,im not surprised that Nadal has never double bagaled someone(although im surprised that i am not surprised,because it is surprising considering how hard he plays most games),confusing post Ben but still funny lol.

June 14th, 2013 at 9:34 am

I have, actually. See, Nadal hands out tons of bagels. But never a double. Seems odd but at the same time it makes sense. I don’t know why.

June 14th, 2013 at 9:35 am

@ Jane – haha, that Wiki page is great. When did breadsticks start being called “fries”?

June 14th, 2013 at 9:36 am

Agree with Ben: useless stat. All these bagel stats really. Fed is so tough to predict nowadays: he could be in mean form one day, and then deliver a completely underwhelming performance the next. He really has to win Halle IMO: only 1 top 10 players besides him on his fav surface- surely he wins such a tourny. I just cannot see him winning Wimby by being titleless prior to it. That said: cannot argue against a 6-0 6-0 performance.

June 14th, 2013 at 9:42 am

the DA, I am not sure, but I guess fries are carbs too. ha ha. Yes, I get a kick out of that wiki page. It’s just for fun, imo. :)

June 14th, 2013 at 9:48 am

Jane,

Funny about that stat is that since 2009 Djokovic won the most combined bagels and “fries” of all in every year, meaning he was the most consistant distributing 6-0 and 6-1 sets.

June 14th, 2013 at 10:03 am

@racquet

re: behave

Nice finish ;)

June 14th, 2013 at 10:45 am

Daniel, I didn’t notice. That’s cool!

Ultimately, what matters is winning titles!! With a side of bagels and fries or not. :)

June 14th, 2013 at 10:50 am

Surely this will add even more credence to his already glowing career. Geez Tennis X.
Is this a useless stat or a useless stat!

June 14th, 2013 at 11:19 am

Most stats are pretty useless though they are useful in predicting certain outcomes. For example, it clearly appears that those players who hand out the most bagels and breadsticks tend to be the best players in the world. So, if you wanted to use this an indicator of performance, it doesn’t seem like all that irrelevant a stat.

June 14th, 2013 at 12:26 pm

Roger’s 18 bagels in ’06 is just crazy stuff. Of course that was peak Rog. Other than in FO finals, he was untouchable.

June 14th, 2013 at 12:27 pm

It seems pretty useless to Rafabots, of course.

But any tennis player knows how difficult it is to double bagel your opponent Talking to you Ben :)

June 14th, 2013 at 12:49 pm

It’s way more difficult in the pros. The gap isn’t as big as it seems most of the time. So this is pretty cool. But why does it matter? It’s not what they play for.

June 14th, 2013 at 12:59 pm

what’s next? an award for how many times roger played without his headband compared to rafa. this is too ridiciously funny!

June 14th, 2013 at 1:49 pm

Who’d have thought Halle would be Fed’s first title for the season… and only because no other good players bothered to contest it.

June 14th, 2013 at 1:49 pm

WTF Says:
Who’d have thought Halle would be Fed’s first title for the season… and only because no other good players bothered to contest it.

June 14th, 2013 at 1:49 pm

Every tournament counts WTF, tell that to rafa when he was playing his 250s at the start of the year, against…ummmm, what was his name? It all counts, so lets stop with demeaning any tournaments the players play. They play for the points and……. the points mean….yup! prizes!

Go fed I say! Not his fault other players are playing queens, or not at all. Remember he has a life time contract at Halle, and so is bound to play.

June 14th, 2013 at 3:02 pm

What stands out is Federer’s double bagel of Gaudio. I don’t think Gaudio “let” federer do it to him any more than rafa allowed federer to beat him 6-0 6-3 in 2011 WTF.

To double bagel a top-10, ex GS champ is absolutely ridiculous. Then again winning 17 slams in 9 years is sick too. So is 237 weeks consecutive at the top [this is a record against both genders, not easy considering the relatively easy fields in WTA]. The list is endless with Mr. Federer.

Take a bow, Maestro.

In other news, 4 single-handed backhands in semi-finals of halle. when has this last happened? The single-handed backhand has to be the most aesthetic/poetic shot in our sport.

June 14th, 2013 at 3:11 pm

I think people should cut this weak tournament crap. Roger still has to play good or risk getting eliminated from the tourney. Even those outside of the top 20 aren’t bad at all.

June 14th, 2013 at 3:21 pm

Queens is above Halle. Ask Murray and Berdych.

June 14th, 2013 at 3:24 pm

Barcelona

June 14th, 2013 at 3:29 pm

There are 2 top ten players in Halle and 4 top ten players in Queens. Go figure!

June 14th, 2013 at 3:43 pm

Yes but the greatest grascourt player of all time aka GOAT plays at Halle.

June 14th, 2013 at 4:06 pm

Barcelona,

How many top 10 players played there?

#keepdrinkingthekoolaid
#itwasa500

June 14th, 2013 at 4:09 pm

All is about money

June 14th, 2013 at 4:21 pm

@Steve 27,

As much as I like to disagree with you(sarcasm), think you’re spot on here. And furthermore, there play and scheduling matters. Example; it is not uncommon for guys that won Majors to pull out the next tourney to recover. Rafa pulls out of Halle after he wins FO, really no surprise there. Bet money that he would have played if he wasn’t in the finals. He’s not the only guy who’s done it so no biggy. These are warm up tourneys, not Masters, so they are what they are.

June 14th, 2013 at 4:32 pm

“Federer’s two career blanks is more than both his rivals Novak Djokovic (1) and Rafael Nadal (0) have (all is fair in GOAT wars). Only Andy Murray has as many as Federer”

Really? This is what Fed fanatics have to resort to now to prop up their guy? How the mighty have fallen. For shame.

June 14th, 2013 at 5:00 pm

“Who’d have thought Halle would be Fed’s first title for the season”

No so fast. He plays Tommy next and Tommy is very good on grass and is in very good form as well. He has beaten two quality players while Rog has not faced any such player. Tommy also beat him quite comfortably in the 2012 Halle final. Given Roger’s extremely inconsistent play, Tommy seems to be the favorite for the semi final. Even if Roger reaches the final, Richard has a very good chance there. Roger would be the big favorite only if he plays Youzh in the final although, in a best of three, most decent players have a shot against Roger nowadays.

June 14th, 2013 at 5:23 pm

^Totally agree. Haas has been playing great tennis this year, and Fed looks totally awesome at times and then a flame out. I would pick Haas, but cheering for “the man”. Regardless, it should be “eye pleasing” tennis!

June 14th, 2013 at 5:32 pm

Agree @rogerafa, if this was best of 5 wimbledon, hard to see anyone outside of top 5 besting Roger even at 32. But best of 3 can be tricky.

June 14th, 2013 at 5:45 pm

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June 14th, 2013 at 6:59 pm

Nadal also had a double bagel against his good friend Juan Monaco at the 2012 French Open fourth round, 6-2,6-0,6-0. Get the facts right.

June 14th, 2013 at 11:02 pm

^its in a match, lol. Rafabots tryin hard.

Now that would be something in a 3-5. Anyone done that? 6-0,6-0,6-0?

June 14th, 2013 at 11:57 pm

Skeezer: Yeah, the chart says Andy M has a triple bagel in the 2011 DC.

cureforthe(jock?)itch et al.: I think it’s pretty clear this entire post is kind of tongue in cheek…

June 15th, 2013 at 12:09 am

if you want to understand why this happened, read his comments.
he clearly worhips federer more than the minions on this site, watching all his matches, loving his play so much etc.
that’s fine for federer’s wife, but if you’re on tour and this is your rival, how about giving up the feddybear in your cot.
maybe you might even have enough belief then to win a service game ON GRASS instead of having the mindset of a pathetic beta on court, probably enjoying watching federer carry out your own humiliation in front of your home crowd.
it’s cringe-worthy.

as for the gaudio match, yeah, it actually was close in many games with many deuces etc. and at least gaudio can say he has a weak serve given his small stature, has a claycourt specialist game, and thus is much easier to break and bagel.

June 15th, 2013 at 3:02 am

“Every tournament counts WTF, tell that to rafa when he was playing his 250s at the start of the year, against…ummmm, what was his name? It all counts, so lets stop with demeaning any tournaments the players play. They play for the points and……. the points mean….yup! prizes!”

Nadal had a come back to make, from 9 months of injury layoff. He needed to start off small. Fed has not been out of the game. The fact that it needed to be some 250 title straight after the French Open that top players were too tired to bother contesting is kind of sad.

He got dropped relatively early at the French so got some rest. Had he made it to the final, I doubt he’d be playing Halle.

June 15th, 2013 at 11:28 am