Three-time French Open champion Mats Wilander responds to our readers' questions from Eurosport Yahoo! and our sister sites all over Europe.

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Eurosoport: What did you think of the Monte Carlo final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer?

Wilander: I think that Federer won't have another chance to beat Nadal... I'm just kidding of course. This match gives us some indication that Federer still has some things he can try. He has all the pieces of the puzzle in front of him, but he is still facing the same question: can he put all those pieces together when faced with Nadal? In Monte Carlo, Federer played the same way he did last year and the year before. And he lost the same way. The score doesn't matter, whenever Nadal plays with confidence the game follows the same course.

Okay, Federer is trying harder, but he hasn't decided to try something radically different. He should experiment with something new before the French, like chip and charge every single ball. Has he tried that before? Does he know how Nadal would react if he had to play hundreds of passing shots in a game? No. So he should try this, even if it means "wasting" a match.

Nino B: Hi Mats! What do you think about Roger Federer's new coach Jose Higueras and do you think he will help Roger to win the French Open?

Wilander: Jose Higueras used to play exactly the way Roger Federer should not play against Rafael Nadal. Still, it is true that he helped Jim Courier to win the French. And I am sure he can be a great motivator and a good advisor to Federer, and teach him to try something completely different. I don't know him personally though.

But we always talk about what Roger Federer can achieve. We mustn't forget that what Rafael Nadal has done is incredible. Do people realize? He went 104 games on clay with one loss in Hamburg to Federer (until suffering a second to Juan Carlos Ferrero in Rome last week). This is unbelievable. Four titles in Monte-Carlo, then in Barcelona... Three in Rome and in Paris. No one has ever dominated so much on a single surface in the whole history of tennis. This is no less outrageous than Federer's domination of the men's game for the last four years.

Eurosport: Could a major defeat shock Nadal and destroy his current confidence? When Bjorn Borg lost against John McEnroe twice in 1981, there was a kind of breakdown and he left the tour...

Wilander: No. What happened to Bjorn Borg in 1981 is that the ITF organized the Grand Prix Tour with eight tournaments imposed on the players. Maybe Borg didn't know exactly which tournament he wanted to go to, and he didn't sign. So the rules were that he had to qualify for Roland Garros, even though he had won it four times in a row (six titles in eight tournaments) and he was then number one in the ATP ranking... French Open organizers did try to make money out of his qualifying games by selling tickets on a big court at Jean Bouin. Bjorn Borg didn't accept that and decided not to play again. Of course, he knew there were young players who could beat him, like McEnroe, but this is not the only explanation for why he quit the tour.

So to answer your question, no. Rafael Nadal would not be struck by a major defeat in Roland Garros or elsewhere because he's at the very beginning of his career and he wants to know how far he can go. I'm sure he must sometimes think, "Wow, it's crazy that I have already won three majors!" He's ready to do the work necessary to improve and very ambitious. He is here to stay.

Eurosport: Have you ever talked tactics with Toni Nadal?

Wilander: No. The Nadals live in a bubble. They are very nice and charming people, but they don't talk tactics when it's time to play. I could never understand how Federer manages to deal with the massive crowds that surround him. In Rome, it's amazing how many people were trying to get his attention. But yet again, he's such a classy person. I guarantee you that we will never see such an amazingly courteous player of such skill ever again on the tour.

If I had two wishes for the rest of my tennis life, I would like first like to see Paul-Henri Mathieu win a Grand Slam, and then see Roger Federer win the French and at least 15 Grand Slam titles.

CoolVybz: Do you think we will see more guys playing serve and volley now, after Sampras proved it so effective against Federer on fast courts? With a lot of big guys on the tour, you would think that they would like to keep points short.

Wilander: I think that if you stick to your own style then you have more chances to win on any surface.

Eurosport: What do you think about Novak Djokovic?

Wilander: Novak is an enormous talent who still needs to prove a lot on the tour. He represents a major threat to both Nadal and Federer. He's definitely going to be a world number one, and he's learning fast. But that being said, he still has to prove that he can win a five setter on clay.

Eurosport: What did you think of his withdrawal in Monaco ?

Wilander: Ivan Lendl used to "concede" matches in a similar way before he won his first Grand Slam (French Open 1984). Djokovic is learning quickly and it's a matter of confidence and maturity. But he will get there.

Yevgeni Semyonov: Why do you think non-Latin players seem to have struggled on clay since you left the game?

Wilander: It all depends on where you were brought up. For players who have been brought up in Europe or South America on clay, it's not a big deal. For me it was always a pleasure to come back on clay.

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