Asked about a comment from tennis legend Ken Rosewall, who once said Nadal would never have been able to beat Federer if he was right-handed, Verdasco backed his compatriot and dismissed the verdict.
“With his physique and his mental strength, he would have won anyway,” the seven-time title winner said.
“Technically it can be more or less showy, everyone says that Federer is the most elegant, the one who plays the most beautiful.
“Okay, Rafa does not play as beautiful as Roger, but Rafa in important moments arrives in extremis from outside the court and hits a right in the race outside the net to the squad that you are stunned.
“Rafa is one in a billion, otherwise he would not have had the career he has had.”
