When Roger Federer Won The Only Blue Clay Title 🔵 | Madrid 2012 Final Extended Highlights

[@fredericboninpissarro5789]

I know many hate the blue clay, but on screen you can follow the ball trajectory much easier compared to regular clay.

[@luvfed3160]

The blue clay court is beautiful！

[@senders779]

It was terrible for the players though, that's why it never returned

[@javiercarrete2106]

​@@senders779 it was really bad luck, it rained in Madrid those days

[@jonas8993]

@@senders779 why?

[@senders779]

@@jonas8993 super slippery and bad bounces. You can tell even watching this vid that they couldn't move too well

[@Robert-w9e7g]

Berdych was a very good tennis player. He did not win many tournaments but he was very consistent and would go deep in most tournaments he played in.

[@zweigackroyd7301]

He won 13 titles, hardly "not many".

[@Robert-w9e7g]

@@zweigackroyd7301 13 titles are not that many when compared to the top players in the game. Milos won almost as many titles as Tomas.

[@zweigackroyd7301]

@@Robert-w9e7g Relative to an extremly tiny elite, it is not many - but relative to the top 100, it's a lot

[@Robert-w9e7g]

@@zweigackroyd7301 Yes very true and the reason he did not win more titles is because he had to play against those elite players quite often.

[@tucker3601]

Berdych was the chairman of the “The Big 3 ruined my career” club

[@AshleyKarys]

Aww the Rog-eh on the blue clay! 💙

[@Tronny]

Wow the blue is so pretty, shame the court wasn't maintainable, great final here, I miss Fed...

[@hg82met]

Blue clay was so good - shame everyone complained. The genius won it anyway.

[@devapavan-u9y]

I agree. A lot of its issues had raised due to poor sanitation system of Madrid masters And the salt added upon the surface making it so fking slippery that no clay coart player could get a decent result on it.(I mean wtf Nadal and Djokovic were in their primes and fked up)

[@josiahbrown7258]

@@devapavan-u9y Even in this match you can see both of them struggle to change direction or accelerate at times. It is particularly jarring to see roger look off balanced so often, when is generally extremely well-balanced. The speed of the court on this surface was greater than normal allowing aggressive players to be successful. Verdasco and Tipsarevic who beat rafa and novak went for it and won. All of these factors made it play more like grass as generally whoever got ahead in the rally would win due to the difficulty of moving and defending. As cool as it looks, that is not what clay court tennis is about.

[@sameerkashyap1750]

Federer had the cleanest kits man. That blue headband with the shirt looks amazing.

[@craiganczelowitz7225]

Watching this - it is so much easier to visually pick up the ball as it contrasts well on the lovely blue...should bring it back-I bet they would increase their tv ratings by 10-20%!

[@JonLeonardF10]

With Model Ballgirls 😊

[@ComfortableTool86]

Yeah I guess players complained but damn it's a way better viewer experience. I skip watching most clay matches, it's hard on the eyes and not enjoyable

[@senders779]

Not gonna happen, it was terrible to play on

[@lukerne9260]

​@@senders779they could make it again but better

[@Sab0321]

That forehand cross court in tough situation...legends can only do that. 👑 🔥

[@haidern2443]

12 years ago and i still remember it vividly like if it's yesterday 💔😢 I remember also will smith at ceremony awarded roger his suit from MIB 3 movie💗

[@whuang03]

Berdych was hitting bombs all match long.

[@dr.uhrensohn]

In my opinion one of the best forehands in tennis history..brutal hard hitter - but brutal era for him with fedal😅

[@TheRafaelBond]

until every single point that mattered where he hit unforced error bombs every single time. Stop posting lies.

[@zafferung4440]

And cheating.

[@MrTomNguyen]

@@zafferung4440 slickest double bounce return ever 😆

[@majestic1292]

they should have kept this color, so special !

[@ybh7647]

even if federer played well after changing his racquet to a bit bigger one, I still miss his blastering forehand with his small racquet until 2013. The change of racquet made his backhand better. which made rafa to struggle a lot. but his win plan against djokovic, which is just smashing forehand against djoker, has gone. I really miss this version of roger. there will be no other roger.

[@Kelvin-ed6ce]

exactly. the 90 didn't lack power on the forehand at all.

[@KollywoodReview]

Nadal and djokovic complained about the surface. Federer adapted to it... GOD of Tennis 😍😇

[@_jiwi2674]

Yeap, the greatness of Federer. Accepting the conditions and give your all instead of complaining.

[@devapavan-u9y]

Bro I understand why Roger is great but I can't ignore the fact that this surface prefered grass and indoor hard coart players I mean literally the semifinal final line up was full of those kindnof players. So technically this doesn't count as clay. (I mean I am not taking credit away from Roger. With a surface so slippery he still managed to move well.)

[@zweigackroyd7301]

@@devapavan-u9y Technically it doesn't count as clay? What does it require to "technically" count as clay. I'd have thought the fact that it is, in fact, a clay court would be enough, so curious about your criteria.

[@devapavan-u9y]

@@zweigackroyd7301 I meant that it was so fast and slippery it can't be counted as a normal clay coart and must be called blue clay instead. I mean I should not have said technically but yeah. It could have been a different surface all together. ,(although I wouldn't have wanted it to be a masters 1000 it would have still been cold to have it as a 250 or 500)

[@zweigackroyd7301]

@@devapavan-u9y Is it really inherently more slippery, or was that a fault of supply? It is just dyed, so does the dye make it slippery? If so, too bad - I like the way it looks

[@jorgebaeza7614]

I miss Roger 😢

[@iulianpartenie6260]

My biggest regret is that I could have followed his games throughout his career, but at that time I was not interested in tennis. I only started following the championships in 2017. So I followed him for a few years, when he didn't offer the best performance.

[@jovan1399]

2012 = the best season in tennis history!!!❤

[@Wn9618]

couldn’t agree more!!

[@КалоянТодоров-с4т]

Hahahahahhahaahahahaahaah!2011 is not to bad hahahahaahaahaha...5 masters,3 Gran slam 10 -1 againts federer and Nadal

[@diegosotomiranda4107]

I think he's talking about the overall season, not just one player, maybe the most competitive year between the big3+murray​@@КалоянТодоров-с4т

[@flaviencrozier]

Many people say that but I disagree. For me it's the second best of the 21st century (stop saying every time "in history"), the best is 2009. Probably the season with the most Classics (Nadal Verdasco AO, Federer Nadal AO, Nadal Djokovic Madrid, Soderling Nadal RG, Federer Haas RG, Federer del Potro RG, Federer Roddick Wimbledon, Federer del Potro US Open...), but also a season of records (Federer winning all the Slams, becoming the only player to win 15 GS, played the 4 GS finals...) and surprises (Nadal loss at RG, del Potro winning the US Open, Davydenko winning the ATP Finals...). 2012 is still one the best season ever for sure!

[@masters.1000]

Come on... Players like Monaco, Tipsarevic and Almagro reached the Top 10 for their only time. In the 21th century, 2009 was clearly better.

[@sonofsun25]

Berdych forehand so classy.

[@augustobt.]

One of the most beautiful tennis courts we ever had. Not to mention the ball was clearly much more visible! But of course, Nadal (who threatened not to play in the following year) and Djokovic had to complain, and they reverted the court to traditional red clay in 2013. Nevertheless, this was one of the best master tournaments of the decade. Really exciting and full of nice matches.

[@Vitor-1981]

Berdych is one of the greatest of all time! Nice to watch this special game! Blue clay was great! Hope it comes back someday!

[@Gilgarth]

That is a stretch… he is far from being one of the greatest of all time 😅

[@imrizzle83]

I would not go as far, but for me he was one of the best players in his generation (in the top 10-15)

[@sebsamblast]

I am so sad they didn't came back blue. That was my favorite tournament to watch ever

[@araangoli4716]

The greatest of all time

[@peolfpetler8500]

He is great, but not the greatest.

[@jacobschmidt2709]

He is up there and a legend, but either second or third greatest is where the Swiss Maestro lands.

[@araangoli4716]

@@jacobschmidt2709 no no roger is the greatest of all time i dont care rafa or novak had the more titles he’s our magician

[@araangoli4716]

@@peolfpetler8500 why not?

[@tasaneewantanakul8382]

All fantastic ROGER Backhand !

[@someone-cs1ix]

blue clay looks so cool, I would much rather look at this than red clay, shame the players didn't like it

[@angelatanurdzic7508]

Great game by Roger. 💙

[@ivicapavic3381]

blue clay was great, didn't have to strain my eyes to track the ball like i do on regular clay

[@zweigackroyd7301]

How many additional titles would Berdych have had without Federer? They met 26 times, with Federer taking 20 - three were finals.

[@TaekiGaming]

Same happened for David Ferrer, he was a great player but Federer always won against him. 17 matches, 17 defeats for David. Only 2 finals but most of them in QF and SF of Master1000 titles, sick.

[@zweigackroyd7301]

@@TaekiGaming The dominance of three players in the last couple of decades really does mean that some truly exceptional players got less notice than they might have if they had been born a little earlier.

[@tominhcuong306]

A good match for Berdych against Federer.

[@TheRafaelBond]

what? Berdych was horrific and threw it away. He later pummeled Federer in a much more consistent match at the US Open.

[@Gilgarth]

@@TheRafaelBond horrific? What are you talking about… it was a high quality match between both, Berdych came back in 2nd and 3rd set at 5-4.

[@TheRafaelBond]

@@Gilgarth You clearly have never seen this match. Berdych was an absolute disgrace.

[@tristanvillalontriss9220]

The last golden era of tennis, my favorite sport.

[@initialize21]

Federer the freaking GOAT!!!

[@mr.40-15]

Keep coping you 🤡

[@jacobschmidt2709]

The Swiss Maestro vs the Sinner of the Big 4 era.

[@MrTomNguyen]

yea guys back then could sweep guys today. They just couldn't edge out big 3.

[@mriganka1000]

U r absolutely correct... Berdych resembles sinner a lot

[@bryanmartin5901]

Remember when Nadal between every hour of this tournament pouting and threatening to never return, while Federer and Serena stayed cool and played TENNIS, not games and politics? Oh and they won the tournament...

[@MA-rq6ie]

Well the court suited them, unlike Nadal who was playing worse tennis on it. Makes sense he would cry like a baby about it😂

[@karanoberoi9573]

It was slippery and injury prone. Someone's game which thrives on speed, endurance, stretching would've been disastrous if this court continued. That amounts to 50%+ players on tour. If the slipperyness was controlled I'm sure Nad and Djo both have kicked 99% of tour's rear.

[@rivieramente]

This is a surface more glass than clay, consideing its characteristics and players had went deep in here

[@VVVinh]

Blue clay looks more slippery than the red one, playing aggressively on this surface is more advantageous. That's why Roger and Berdych here in final.

[@patrickbateman1660]

It's literally the opposite. People complained it was sticky. This makes it easier to be aggressive and finish points quicker. It's why this is the only clay court final federer made post 2009 and one of the only ones berdych ever made

[@Zephyr77]

@@patrickbateman1660 Wasn't the majority of complaints of stickiness during the early rounds when it was raining like crazy and the blue clay became lumpy when wet? In this match it looks very dry and slick

[@CapitanHarlockisback]

Roger’s backhand… there will never be a better one.

[@sayakadhikary9539]

Agreed..everyone talks about his forehand...but his back hand slices n drop shots were too good to be true sometimes

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

Oh shut up, his backhand was always his weakness. Stan, Gasquet, Dimitrov, Guga all had better backhands.

[@kedarshiralkar1099]

@@elektrik_exekutioner6822 which one of them has 20 Grand Slams?

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

@@kedarshiralkar1099 So what? Djokovic has 24, does that mean all of his shots are better than Fed's? Stop this nonsense.

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

@TvRFReloaded You know nothing about tennis at all. Federer's backhand has always been his weakness, his titles do not change that. By your logic Djokovic must have the best forehand, backhand, serve, net game etc. just because he has the most grand slam titles.

[@beyond.the.cosmosx]

This blue clay looks so cool 😎

[@achourazilbrown9836]

The goat of blueclay

[@nate42384]

It's nice the ball is visible

[@timovangalen1589]

I miss Smurf clay. If they just get the formula right, it’d be a great alternative to red clay. The ball is so easy to follow.

[@masters.1000]

I don't know why people keep thinking like it was another type of surface when in reality it was just regular dyed clay. The only problem was they couldn't make much of it in time, and therefore the court became more slippery. What we actually needed were Masters played on har-tru/green clay (IW & Miami).

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

No one needs that har tru crap.

[@dimitr0v69]

This color make me happy

[@jigneshchitroda1688]

Roger federer is very best ❤👌🙏 miss

[@fik006]

Even Berdych would wipe out the current crop of players in this weak era

[@BrotherTree1]

Can't believe this was almost 12 years ago. Where did the time go?????

[@ZAY109]

Watching Federer play, I realise just how boring the current tennis players are.

[@KhanMunazAhmad]

Couldn’t agree more

[@ZAY109]

@@hypie88 or maybe because I have taste

[@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi]

Watch Dimitrov then, or Alcaraz who has a dynamic game that's hard to be bored by.

[@got2bjosh]

And Serena. Let's not forget all the times they shared title wins in singles. Quite the reign.

[@syedwaqarahmed5963]

Blue clay was last used in 2012 and carpet was last used as surface in 2011.

[@jimnosnow4484]

Honestly blue clay should’ve stuck around. People complained it was causing bad bounces when in reality it had nothing to do with that. Shame they got rid of it after Rafa said he’d never play Madrid again

[@lszujo]

that was the "Great escape"

[@doudoubulle]

Berdich should have been number one in the world with a game this good

[@anseinueseima408]

he is very good, unfortunately he's unsportsmanlike

[@arvisjaggamar]

He was painfully close to a couple Slams in the hardest ever era to win Slams

[@doudoubulle]

@@arvisjaggamar yes true

[@TheRafaelBond]

Ill never forget that title. Berdych choked like nothing seen before.

[@austinbond2527]

So weird seeing a ball bounce like that on a blue court

[@OX3YMORON]

Bring the blue clay back. I’ve read that it was only slippery because the clay wasn’t cured correctly. Not due to the color.

[@JonLeonardF10]

It’s actually easy to see th ball movement on TV screen with blue clay , than the orange /original clay color. For the viewer sakes

[@patrickbateman1660]

He won because it was a hard court. Madrid when red is basically a hard court, when blue it becomes sticky so its just a hard court.

[@mantaishere]

Blue clay GOAT 😍

[@vijayendranvijay4538]

Roger would have had a positive h2h against rafa if more matches were played on blue clay...

[@radilev1996]

Bro, stop the nonsense, it was just for one year. Great tournament he had, but one year doesn't mean he would win it always. I hate people like you.

[@_jiwi2674]

And if there were a couple of masters 1000 on grass. The absence of these tournaments is an utter joke

[@vijayendranvijay4538]

​​@@_jiwi2674yes leave blue clay...not having even one M1000 on grass is an absolute shame for the sport..it would have easily added atleast 10 masters titles to roger's name...

[@zweigackroyd7301]

More to the point, if a preponderance of matches weren't on clay, the balance would be different. Both obviously great on multiple surfaces, but if you had an even number of top tournaments by surface, the story would be different indeed!

[@kedarshiralkar1099]

@@_jiwi2674 exactly, it is beyond my understanding! there was a time when all tournaments were on grass, now it is hardly 2 3 main tournaments with 1 of them being Wimbledon. Why does AO, RG, and US Open get a long series of tournaments including atleast 2 3 masters 1000 and a couple of 500s as well, but Wimby is rushed into right after Rg without much build-up. Never understood this, Grass is so beautiful to watch, I'm damn sure a M100 Grass tournament will get more viewership than any other tournament. And honestly, there are tournaments like Halle, Stuttgart, etc. why not just convert them to M1000? does not make sense

[@Pavel_grodman]

Why didn't they keep it it's brilliant

[@niltoncardosodasilva9002]

Berdych was a tough guy...

[@CodenameCondor]

I love how Federer nonchalantly soccer head-butts the Berdych winner from off the wall at 12:30 😎

[@petermonsy]

14:30 14:32.... federer draws a double helix with his racquet

[@mt.crushmore]

This is prime evidence of what would happen if we had any grass court M1000 tourneys

[@JakeLesser]

There really should be a grass court masters and i'm suprised that it isn't talked about more...

[@DrMrPersonGuy]

It's like they're playing on water, I hope blue clay can make a return

[@Laland_1196]

Want fedal 2010 and 2011 Madrid clash

[@strikerbowls791]

Blue clay goat

[@MatthewBerman-i3j]

was there ever a carpet court?

[@YouAintGotNoTegridyBoi]

Back in the 90s yeah, but they've gotten rid of it and madly enough Federer was the one who got the last carpet court ATP tour title changed to yet another hardcourt one. It was one of his most successful surfaces early in his career too, I felt it would've made the game a lot more interesting.

[@BLACKTREAT]

Long story short, the King of Clay Nadal bitched about it and it was turned back to red 😂

[@muscy2637]

Yeah if it was only the color change people wouldn’t have minded but it was mostly due to how the court was way more slippery than it was supposed to be and completely changed the play style on the aurface

[@JacenSolo0]

Yeah but it just means he waentbqble to adapt. Obviously the year after they would've perfected it but djokovic and nasal bitched and that was the end of it.​@@muscy2637

[@Mondballer_00]

So did Djokovic

[@bryanmartin5901]

@@muscy2637 exactly, the tourney director admitted he added too much crushed glass, making it a tad slippery, it had nothing to do with the color itself, but instead, big baby Nadal (who has plenty of other red clay tourneys to moan about) refused to return unless they changed back. He attempted to have them change the Year End Championships to clay, too, even though that would totally upend the balance of the calendar. He is so narcissistic, entitled and has such a false humility about him, I'll never understand his fans....

[@RonıN779-02]

@@bryanmartin5901holy crap who hurt you

[@pfazza19]

The company on the backboard Tiriac leasing is owned by Ion Tiriac former player, coach of Becker and worlds richest tennis player

[@FLIP238]

Clay should be blue again. Would be cool to See roland garros in blue too

[@felixy23]

and the only player who bagel king of clay 3x of 3 different surfaces

[@TheFever77]

Just for context, Serena Williams was the women's winner on blue clay too. Two giants of the sport.

[@noahcarvalho2105]

That Djoko will never have😂😂😂

[@stuartclarke3138]

Wtf is will smith doing on the Dias ?

[@s.z.x.01]

How many more masters could Federer have won if blue clay was more popular or even just stayed in Madrid

[@AstroSully]

Blue Clay just as fast as current Wimbledon 😂

[@slam5]

IMO, Berdych lost this match lost this match rather than Roger won this match. Berdych made too many unforced errors at the most critical time.

[@TrevorFeatherweathers]

So if Roland Garros was played on blue clay Roger would have 15 RG titles and 35 grand slams.

[@insertnicknamehere_]

here before the bots again

[@insertnicknamehere_]

nvm i missed it again 💀

[@Wolverine168]

How could Berfich loose that match?

[@JosephDT]

King of clay - Nadal King of hard - Djokovic King of grass - Sampras/Djokovic Kind of blue clay - Federer King of Tennis - Djokovic

[@IaroslavVakatsiienko]

Captain Roger Federer

[@Zamzummin]

18:16 What was Will Smith doing there?

[@Molybdaenmornell]

15:28 Fed fan on court? ;-)

[@silvestreperezg]

Will Smith at 18:08

[@ricardosalazar858]

This blue cay was awesome, its a shame that only because nadal Lose and cry about it, blaming the surface, back when nadal used to put his loses on injury or something else

[@ThomasBodlos]

Jawohl Thiem 😊👍🇦🇹

[@namcao3317]

It look like hard surface than

[@ultramarinechaplain88]

Why didnt they keep the clay blue??

[@fedwrld7617]

Hopefully once the complainers retire it'll be back 🙌🙌

[@mxschopendour3000]

May the blue clay and knee-length shorts rest in chaos

[@jollymolly2521]

The blue clay of Madrid 2012 aka the tine Rafa and Novak had a fit and declared they wouldn't return to the tournament if Tiriac kept the slippery blue clay.😒☹ And Roger said, "What's all the fuss about?" 🤣

[@MrDougmartin]

I wish they would have kept the blue clay. So much easier to watch on TV. Of course, tennis is all about the bottom line.

[@jokelot5221]

What minute does Will Smith slaps mr 40:15, or was that Goatkovic, cant remember..🤣🤣

[@ThomasBodlos]

Stark Novak 🇦🇹👍

[@dgib1694]

Exquisite ballgirls

[@radilev1996]

I don't think you can call him the king of blue clay when there was only one blue edition. Pretty sure he would not have been able to win it every single year after that in order to really be established king of blue clay. Other than that, great tournament, no doubt.

[@mayindingankar825]

5th one here

[@sjfkriensm]

Berdych the double bounce cheater

[@---jm4cz]

Can’t wait to see all the Novak 🤖 and comment who the 🐐 is blablabla 😅

[@enjoylife1239]

damm court looks crazy fast..i understand why pushers with weaker serves complained about blue clay

[@teasellermodi5897]

Blue Clay surface look like Hard court surface.