Roger Federer v Marat Safin Classic Match | Australian Open 2004 Final

Watch the classic match of Roger Federer v Marat Safin in the final of the Australian Open 2004.
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[@Ilegator]

Great job on the 50fps!! Finally an official channel treating their archive well.

[@BrotherTree1]

Federer and Safin are in my top 10 favourite players of all time. After this final, something remarkable happened a year later on this very court.

[@bradleydavis9502]

No one wants to talk about Federer's draw in this tournament. He went through the best players of his generation en route to the title! Peak Ferrero (absolute beast), peak Nalbandian (world class talent and mental giant) and finally Safin. I challenge anyone to show me a more treacherous road to a major final. This Federer run was his most impressive because of the talent he faced along the way. Safin had a much easier road to the final.

[@conorgardnerr]

​@@bradleydavis9502 Thats not much of a challenge. Stan beat 2 of the big 3 in both his 2014 Aus Open title and the 2015 Roland Garros win. Del Potro absolutely cleaned up prime Nadal and then beat prime Federer in 2009. Basically anyone who won a slam having to face one of the big 3 has a better claim for a more treacherous run than this. Federer mopped the floor with these players for practically 4 years straight with like a 93% win rate, that is virtually unchallenged. Its not a treacherous run if these players posed absolutely no threat to him.

[@bradleydavis9502]

@@conorgardnerr Wait, are you suggesting players like Ferrero, Nalbandian, and Safin aren't all time greats?

[@conorgardnerr]

​@@bradleydavis9502 Two things, firstly you said i challenge anyone to name a more treacherous road to a major final. I was simply suggesting that there have been many final runs with players beaten who are objectively far superior to the likes of Nalbandian, Ferrero and Safin. Are you suggesting Nalbandian or Ferrero are harder opposition than prime Nadal and prime Federer? Secondly, are you suggesting they are? Theyre not even close, literally multiple whole tiers below. They have 3 majors and 40 something titles between them. Thats less than just one Andy Murray.

[@Prostaff90]

Those who put down the era of Federer’s peak years fail to understand the greatest talent ever playing his best in his prime gave nobody else a chance except Nadal on clay. Federer was number 1 almost 5 years straight, reached 18 of 19 slam finals in a row and 23 semifinals in a row, just short of 6 years in a row. Nobody has or ever will display such dominance over 5 years.

[@davd1986]

Safin was exhausted going into this match, he played 3 5 setters and 3 4 setters. Not saying that he would have beaten Federer had he been fresh, but it certainly took at away from what could have been a great match, like the following year when Safin beat Federer in one of the greatest matches of all time, 9-7 in the 5th set.

[@sylvain123]

Ahhh I miss those green coloured courts. The blue is too vivid. I think this was the game that had me in stitches. Marat not happy with a line call, thumped his foot on the court where he reckoned it landed. Such a funny bloke.

[@sylvain123]

I remember now the match I'm thinking of Marat was wearing navy blue. Can anyone remember the match? . It was gruelling and hot. I miss the big fella. He was great to watch. Heart on his sleeve player.

[@masters.1000]

Thank you. Keep uploading the good old times.

[@FLIP238]

Great quality. Please post some complete matches in this quality from roger in this tournament. 2nd slam here for the GOAT. 👍😎

[@noahcarvalho2105]

Only Rog and Rafa can satisfy my thirst for tennis….

[@guaybique4210]

You're about to go into thirst for a long haul

[@MistahhMingus]

@@guaybique4210🤓

[@chinmaynaik3651]

Novak

[@Prostaff90]

Many more KZbin videos of Roger than all other Tennis players combined. And more get created and shared daily. Roger is like Jordan, once you’ve watched either of them watching any others pales in comparison.

[@cameo2277]

24:42 smooth

[@arithiru]

Though the 2006 polished Fedex was the closest we had someone to Tennis perfection, the Raw 2003-04 Pony Tail Fed was a Monster!!

[@bradleydavis9502]

2003 Federer post Wimbledon was incedible, especially on clay. He ran into a monster in Guga in 2004 Roland Garros. No one and I mean no one would've beaten that Guga at the French that year and Federer fought like hell. 2004 clay court Federer is extremely underappreciated.

[@sawgames8623]

​@@bradleydavis9502 There are better individual seasons than Fed 2006.

[@bradleydavis9502]

That’s debatable. However, I don’t think his competition was ever higher. He played legends like Baghdatis and Roddick and not to mention Nadal at Wimbledon that year who was an absolute beast and a very seasoned grass court player!

[@sawgames8623]

@@bradleydavis9502 "Legends like Baghdatis?" Bravo, I got trolled.

[@hempcacaogoji831]

I'd say neither one of them played very well.

[@teasellermodi5897]

A year later at AO semis, Safin successfully got revenge on him and later won the title after defeating Hewitt.

[@bradleydavis9502]

What a match that Safin Hewitt final was. Federer can't win em all especially when you absolute mount rushmore legends of our sport competing in the same era! This era with Coria, Gaudio, Safin, Hewitt, and, of course, Roddick was intense. All court games with zero weaknesses.

[@truthtruth9056]

​@@bradleydavis9502true ! Yet idiot haters kept saying its a weak era

[@Prostaff90]

Those who put down the era of Federer’s peak years fail to understand the greatest talent ever playing his best in his prime gave nobody else a chance except Nadal on clay. Federer was number 1 almost 5 years straight, reached 18 of 19 slam finals in a row and 23 semifinals in a row, just short of 6 years in a row. Nobody has or ever will display such dominance over 5 years..

[@CaesarMD]

That 14:42 forehand. Roger's anticipation was impeccable!

[@arithiru]

Its the ball toss, which gives away the hint of where the serve is going to go. Having so many variations on the serve with almost exactly the same ball toss is what made Fed great. Even Djoker for that matter. Highly underrated serve!

[@kennyg5678]

Now assuming the final was played on a Sunday, for Marat to not have hit a double fault since Tuesday is insane

[@hristopopov7345]

Hard to believe its been 20 years since then....

[@yacovmitchenko1490]

Hardly a classic. By their standards, they played pretty poorly. Many unforced errors and lousy serving. Their semi-finals in 2005 was definitely a classic.

[@leplaze3409]

50fps 🤩

[@warriorson7979]

Roger's backhand here wasn't yet on the level of 2006 and onwards...🤔😒

[@Rumblingbelly]

Why again this final and not the 2005 final?

[@TheseHoesAreLoyal]

You mean 2005 AO SF between these two? Because this channel already uploaded that. If you did refer to the 2005 final, that was between Hewitt and Safin.

[@sashingopaul3111]

@@TheseHoesAreLoyaland that was also uploaded too

[@TheseHoesAreLoyal]

@@sashingopaul3111 I didn't mention anything about the 2005 final being uploaded but ok

[@GrigorSamsa]

Roger is the real GOAT 😊

[@jimgray3346]

I heard this match was filmed with a yam

[@Egran888]

Марат шикарно шёл этот турнир, но в финале вообще не пошло..

[@Vipa567]

Man, these classic match highlights are awful, just missing entire sets and showing all the wasted time between points to run up the length of the video. Quit with the garbage narration and just show the highlights of the match.

[@blahkayonaFriday]

Novak who??

[@bradleydavis9502]

Remember when Djokovic said he would be the best ever. Federer has 8 Wimbledon titles and Djokovic has 7 lol. Federer also beat the best to get his titles. Philippousis, Roddick not once but twice. Peak Nadal in 2006 and 2007. People forget how deadly Roddick was on grass. I would've liked to have seen Djokovic beat that Roddick and also Philippousis because we know big servers can dominate grass and Pilippousis was incredibly dominant on grass.

[@ValentinG23]

one of the so called strong opponents of the supposed strong era before 2010 😅😅😅

[@yoanwastaken]

Safin > Ruud, Tsitsipas, Berrettini, onlyfans star Nick Kyrgios, etc😊

[@ValentinG23]

@@yoanwastaken Rudd, Tsistipas , Kyrgios> Baghdathis, Phillipousis,Gonzales , Soderling , etc 😊

[@Leo-nc3yx]

Lol!Safin beat a young Djokovic twice,something that current era scrubs could never do against a 35-year-old. The truth is the only strong era is between 2008~2012,where the big 4 were all relatively in form and the top 8 being Tsonga,Berdych,Del Porto,Soderling,and Ferrer… After 2013 Roger declined severely,Rafa was a joke on grass for a long while and often injured,Murray came back from 2 injuries and was never as good as pre 2012.While the other members either got old and declined,or just injuries after injuries. The truth is even prime Murray,or prime Delpo,Berdych,Tsonga…etc .Will beat the living shit out of this current era.

[@ValentinG23]

@@Leo-nc3yx don’t be a fucking idiot , Safin had 10 years on tour at least and Novak was playing his first slams , you know pretty damn well that he wouldn’t stand a chance against a Novak that had 10 years on tour 😅😅😅

[@JohnJohn-pb8zm]

@@Leo-nc3yx old federer was defeated by tsitsipas and dimitrov in AO and USO but old Djokovic beat them in AO to win the title.