When i look now on votes it is funny, because Federer is for sure not lighting years ahead of Rafa and Nole for sure. I will try to make analysis for all 3 at their peak level - peak season- it is better than age, because not everyone at the same age is best.. So we can assume 2005, 2005 or 2006 as Federer´s best year, Nadal best is 2008 early 09, even that he won 3 slams last year only US open was impressive. Djokovic peak is 2011 for sure - maybe will get better but don´t think so. Most likely he will drop his level, injured, or physically tired, or stay consistent good similar to this level, but there is not much improovement for him or there is not much of higher level for him than right now, if he even will be better than not by much. We have Djokovic in our mind right now, because of his great season, but one think people forgot here, and that even Federer and Nadal at their peaks - or best age-best seasons weren´t best in everything - Federer at his peak had worse serve than he developed after his post-prime and even he is talking in interviews that his technics-strokes are better than before, it is obvious with age he declined in movements, footwork, deffense and his FH hasn´t so much power, accelaration and because of overall speed on the court his timing is worse, so Federer´s peak had better speed-movements, stamina and footwork - because of this he had better FH- better timing and more power, explossivnes and also his deffense was better, because he was quicker. Than we have Nadal- just like Federer, at his peak he wasn´t best in every way. He was better on clay, and didn´t have such great level on HC. But he was quicker, better deffense, mentally stronger. His serve and HC level are better after-peak, because his game developed more to HC style - what is dominant surface and where Nadal play most matches. Djokovic we all see this season. So it is hard to predict who will be No.1, they are by far better than anybody else on the tour at their peaks, so it is hard to predict who will win which tournament, who will have more points than the other 2 guys. But for sure Roger is not so much better- even when he was dominating everybody else - he didn´t beat younger Nadal more than Nadal him- yes there is match-up issue, but still, about Djokovic - 2011 Djokovic will be tough for Roger to beat regularly- who wants to point out on their RG game- Roger played his highest level at post-prime and Nole didn´t played his highest level. It was almost 5 sets, and only Roger´s suprime serve made the difference - peak Federer didn´t have that serve so peak Federer wouldn´t have it much easier with this Nole for sure. About Nadal- with better confidence, better deffense and playing in 2008 form on clay i do believe he beat Djokovic, but didn´t will be so close on HC for sure, because his HC game developed over the years. So Roger, Nole and Rafa would beat each other on different surfaces. No. 1 could be anyone from this guys and slams probably i will say AO-Nole, RG-Rafa, Wimby-US- Roger- but about US there is still chance for Nole, about RG there is chance for Nole too against Rafa. Also Rafa could win AO or Wimby.
