Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Djokovic–Nadal rivalry

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 18:38, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Djokovic–Nadal rivalry[edit]

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There's nothing here that warrants a separate article, it's merely a repository for their head to head meetings results. It also fails WP:NOT#STATS. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 20:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I couldn't find many sources that discuss this rivalry. Although it's placed third in the ATP's "rivalries of the decade" list and they have a whole page on it, they're not wholly independent, and their analysis is mainly a repeating of scorelines in prose form. No discussion on how the rivalry developed, how their playing styles face against each other, the two personalities etc. It's expected that the ATP will hype things up. No sources discuss the rivalry in any thing like the depth in the Federer-Nadal rivalry. Simple mentions that the two have a rivalry (of which there are a few) isn't enough. Waiting to see if anyone else can find better sources. Christopher Connor (talk) 21:29, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I'm a big tennis fan and I hope we can find sources to restructure the page. Still I think that narrowing the "rivalries" to Nadal and Federer is way more hyphy than including others who also leave their footsteps in the sport's history (and anyone who prevents an all "Federer-Nadal Finals Tour"). All the live commentaries (by obviously professionals) during their matches analyse and compare their style, technique, chances, odds, background...etc (and during a 3 hour match that's a hell of a lot information). The difference (and the disadvantage) is that they didn't do it in a written form. Any chance to include those info (John McEnyroe's or Matts Wilander's live TV coverage should easily do the job)? Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 12:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Sidenote: Djokovic home page offers a streamable and downloadable collection of his matches with commentaries on.Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 12:54, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sidenote 2:Here's a source for the analysis of the US Open match of theirs and another one for their Cincinnati Masters meeting. Based upon these the article could be easily expanded into the same match-by-match style as in Federer–Nadal rivalry. Lajbi ^{Holla @ me • CP} 16:46, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:30, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete agree with nom. While Federer–Nadal rivalry is encyclopedic as their rivalry has been well documented, this article is not. We don't need a "rivalry" article, just because they have played each other quite a bit. Jenks24 (talk) 14:29, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.