Check out these Rafa stats compiled by Tennis.com. Insane.
165-14 -- Nadal’s career record on clay (a winning percentage of 92.1)
139-4 -- Nadal’s record on clay since 2005, a 97.2 winning percentage
to Gaston Gaudio in the quarterfinals of Buenos Aires in 2005 (0-6, 6-0, 6-1)
to Igor Andreev in the quarterfinals of Valencia in 2005 (7-5, 6-2)
to Roger Federer in the final of Hamburg in 2007 (2-6, 6-2, 6-0)
to Juan Carlos Ferrero in the second round of Rome in 2008 (7-5, 6-1)
81 -- Number of consecutive clay-court matches Nadal won from April 2005 to May 2007, an all-time record
- Nadal's streak was ended by Roger Federer in the 2007 Hamburg final. It’s the only time that Nadal has lost a clay-court final.
- Since then, Nadal has won 44 of his 45 clay-court matches. In total, Nadal has lost two of his last 127 matches on clay.
Only three players in the Top 25 have beaten Nadal on clay: Roger Federer, David Ferrer and Fernando Gonzalez.
- Federer beat Nadal on clay in Hamburg in 2007; Nadal has won all four of their matches on clay since, including a 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 obliteration in the 2008 Roland Garros final
- Ferrer beat Nadal on clay in Stuttgart in 2004; Nadal has won all five of their matches on clay since.- Gonzalez beat Nadal on clay in Stuttgart in 2003; Nadal has won all three of their matches on clay since, without dropping a set.
Only two players in the Top 25 have a winning record against Nadal: David Nalbandian and James Blake; neither has played the Spaniard on clay.
- Nalbandian hasn't beaten Nadal since 2007; Nadal won their last match (at Indian Wells in 2009)
- Blake hasn't beaten Nadal since 2006; Nadal won their last two matches (at Indian Wells and Miami in 2008).