Nor is he particularly close, going by B-Ref’s HoF monitor. Not even when only measuring him against fellow catchers.

This reasoning essentially penalizes Nadal for dominating clay.

Rafa beat Fed at Wimbledon and won the All England Championships twice vs Fed and Djoker only have 1 French each. Fed never beat Rafa at Roland Garros either.

I remember tennis announcers saying on multiple occasions that Nadal had better hands at the net than Federer - which they attributed to Nadal’s participation in more doubles matches (though that was a while back and Federer has improved his net game). I think Nadal has been known for a while to be very good at the…

Here’s some more coverage for you from someone who’s a little more excited about the historic things Rafa has been doing lately

“Nadal has never been known as much of a net player, which is fine, because the surface doesn’t really call for it.”