24 and Counting

[BLUETIT]

Re: 24 and Counting

He played with Nadal and Federer FFS, you can't flip that on him the moment they've gone.

One got dodgier knees than me, the other fella was just a service merchant

[J R Hartley]

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One got dodgier knees than me, the other fella was just a service merchant

Federer a sevrice merchant? Whaaaaat??

[the other bob wilson]

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Do those unable to recognise how good Djokovic, Nadal and Federer are/were believe that, with one or two exceptions, the men’s game has not been producing potential multi grand slam tournament winners for the last twenty years?

[J R Hartley]

Re: 24 and Counting

Do those unable to recognise how good Djokovic, Nadal and Federer are/were believe that, with one or two exceptions, the men’s game has not been producing potential multi grand slam tournament winners for the last twenty years?

What do you mean? Nadal and Djokivic have both been produced in the last 20 years? Nadal played his first slam in 2003 and Djokovic 2005? Federer has been around for the most part of that so very difficult for anyone else to be a multi slam winner with those 3 hoovering up the vast majority of the grand slams.

[Trigger]

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He probably is.

36 and it's a pretty non stop sport both on and off court.

Was a time when there were questions over his mentality and certainly his ability to get through matches physically. Then hit his stride and looks as good as ever. 3 from 4 slams this year with opponents like Alcaraz around who are 15 years younger.

A team sport is one thing but when it's just you in those moments, the drive at that age, after so many years to keep going is what impresses me this most. Even with no injuries most would have wound down for a life on the beach by now.

[J R Hartley]

Re: 24 and Counting

He probably didnt want to get the covid jab because it doesnt work on humans let alone robots.

[the other bob wilson]

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What do you mean? Nadal and Djokivic have both been produced in the last 20 years? Nadal played his first slam in 2003 and Djokovic 2005? Federer has been around for the most part of that so very difficult for anyone else to be a multi slam winner with those 3 hoovering up the vast majority of the grand slams.

I was thinking of other players, I was thinking that the building blocks for what those three players became were in place twenty years ago, are we to believe that all but players like Murray and Stan Wawrinka since then have not been good enough to win more than a couple of grand slams?

[J R Hartley]

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I was thinking of other players, I was thinking that the building blocks for what those three players became were in place twenty years ago, are we to believe that all but players like Murray and Stan Wawrinka since then have not been good enough to win more than a couple of grand slams?

Not when those 3 were around, no. How many multiple grand slam winners do you expect in a generation?

[the other bob wilson]

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Not when those 3 were around, no. How many multiple grand slam winners do you expect in a generation?

Through all of my life before that, you’d have players such as Borg and Sampras who’d dominate for a while, but there was never a situation where a small group of players dominated almost completely for close to a generation. This prompts the question were that group dominant because they were exceptional players or because the standards of all but one or two of the rest was so poor? I believe it was more the former than the latter - I believe there are a lot of players now in their early thirties who will live their rest of their lives thinking that they never got the rewards their ability warranted because of the trio Djokovic, Federer and Nadal.

[lardy]

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One got dodgier knees than me, the other fella was just a service merchant

Oh I see, it's a lame windup job.

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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He probably didnt want to get the covid jab because it doesnt work on humans let alone robots.

It certainly presents a very small risk to a physically superfit person with no health issues.

[lardy]

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at the time of posting i was thinking of all the elite top sports athletes of modern times but tennis is a bit unique as its not a team sport

mental strength and endurance as well as natural ability comes into play here and have now decided he is the best there's no contest

yes we could say messi , ronaldo etc but at 36 years old and his achievements over a long period of time will be seldom done again ,i would have said Ali back in the 70's / 80's

on top of that the WEF mob stopped him competing for a number of years too .imagine how many more major titles he would have won

we will never know of course

That's right, they locked him up for years in the basement of a pizza place didn't they?

[BLUETIT]

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Oh I see, it's a lame windup job.

:thumbup: I wouldn’t watch tennis if it was free on the BBC !!!!

Together with, golf, F1, athletics, and swimming (put a great white in with them, then they’d swim) :hehe:

[lardy]

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It certainly presents a very small risk to a physically superfit person with no health issues.

It wouldn't have been fair on all the other players who also didn't want the jab for the same reasons, but took it anyway.

[lardy]

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:thumbup: I wouldn’t watch tennis if it was free on the BBC !!!!

Together with, golf, F1, athletics, and swimming (put a great white in with them, then they’d swim) :hehe:

That's interesting. Is there anything else you don't like?