Federer and Nadal: Still the Players to Beat in the ATP Tour

The ATP Tour just ended last week with Roger Federer winning the end-of-the-year Championships trophy. No surprise there.  Although Nadal may have dominated the Slams this year, it did appear that he was losing steam towards the last few months of the tour.  Anyway, the results last week still showed the complete domination of the two, especially in very high profile tournaments - and although the current Top 5 right now is an interesting list - Djokovic, Murray and Soderling - all capable of beating the two - those three guys have to be in super duper form to defeat Nadal and Federer enroute to their Grand Slam titles next year.  It's also very rare for Nadal and Federer to lose during any stage of the Slams so as a supporter of underdogs, it would take a unique combination of a lucky draw and the right amount of desire, for anyone active in the tour today, to wrest even one of the four slams from these 2 guys next year.  Barring any injury from the two, I can safely say that the rivalry goes on in the upcoming 2011 season!