Since we're talking "of all time", it's also worth mentioning that historically, grass is a much more important and prestigious surface than clay. Wimbledon > US Open > French Open in prestige and importance.
We just count all GS's the same nowadays, but if you were to assign any extra value to that consideration, then Federer's greatness and lead over the 2GOAT and all others just gets even more dominant.
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Originally Posted by kingweed
Roger has remained competitive on clay during that time, sf, final couple of qf in the French. Won and finished runner up in clay 1000 events etc there’s an argument that Roger is also one of the best clay court players ever as well, certainly top 5 anyway.
This. If you want to go even further, there's an argument that without Nadal, Federer would have 6 French Open titles and be the best clay court player of all time. And thus that, even with Nadal, he should be in the conversation for 2nd best clay court player of all time (best, but not greatest, since he doesn't have the actual titles).