French Open: Djokovic or Nadal? It's like a coin toss for McEnroe

McEnroe feels picking a winner between Novak Djokovic and 13-time French Open champion Rafa Nadal is like a coin toss but he gives Serbia's world number one a slight edge in Tuesday's highly-anticipated quarter-final. Spaniard Nadal had won the French Open four years in a row before losing to eventual champion Djokovic in the semi-finals last year - just the third time he had been beaten at the claycourt major since his debut in 2005. That was also the last of the 58 career showdowns between the pair and Djokovic has looked in peak form at this year's tournament, having not dropped a set in his four rounds.

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"Before the tournament when I picked, who do you pick? Slight edge to Novak I'd said," McEnroe told Reuters on Monday. "Rafa has won this 13 times, I wasn't sure about his health. He was hurt, seems like he's okay. But it could obviously go either way and Rafa historically has been much better here. "Slight edge to Novak but if Rafa won I wouldn't be surprised at all." Djokovic, who was forced to miss the Australian Open due to his unvaccinated status against COVID-19 and his subsequent deportation from Melbourne amid a media frenzy, is desperate to win in Paris and pull level with Nadal's major haul of 21. They arrived in Paris with contrasting build-ups to the claycourt major. While Djokovic looked in top form during his Rome triumph, Nadal was troubled by a chronic foot problem and lost in the Madrid quarter-finals before a third-round