Fun and uncertain yes but as you said, not the final we were hoping for or expecting. The two biggest players of the year not making the final or even having someone in the final who's made a slam final. Goffin is a great player, I'm a big fan but he's got no Masters titles or finals, no slam title, final or SF and yet could snag the WTF? It's not great. Perhaps you can see why I'm suggesting this may not be the best WTF we've seen. Not the worst no but definitely not the best by a long shot.
So from this post follows:
According to you :
1) the quality of a tournament depends on whether the winner was already a Major winner, finalist or SF, a winner of M1000, quality of the play be damned
Not only this, but quality of the tournament depends now on the quality of the play of the winner alone, and lol and behold your sneaky tactic here, you made the thread before knowing who was even going to win the SFs and was criticising the players/level of play in the early stages, where Goffin had his work cut out for him with a loss and a hard fought win, while now you are concentrating on the more attackable player purely based on his previous accolades, conviniently forgetting his level of play, grit or actual performance
2) How are younger players, who by definition could qualify for the event by playing well all year, but are still getting traction in the Majors mostly because of lack of experience or other circumstances, going to get their confidence going, if they are seen as unworthy of winning this event?
According to you: they are not going to do it in any such way regardless of the fact that if he wins this he will have then a prestigious title to his name
And, you know, he actually beat both Nadal and Federer to be in that final, so don't give me this crap about " how on earth a player like him is going to win it? ".
If he does it will be because he beat #1, #2 and as currently stands #3 in the world!!!
3) in another post of yours you said that according to you the " WTF should be the year end champion, the best player of the year"
Do you understand that the winner of the WTF ( if that is what you call the year end champion) and the best player of the year are two different things?
If you do why are you mixing those things on purpose?
If you have a problem with the format, why not open the discussion about the merits of a RR format, because as far as I know the "best player of the year" is not given a direct entry to the final (not here, not anywhere else currently) nor are there requirements for players to have won big titles or been in big finals to be allowed to participate (it would be interesting someone like you to hint at such massive discriminatory conditions)
You said that you like Goffin and are a fan and at the same time say that he is undeserving finalist here despite of his actually very good level here, his results and earning the right to participate with a year long effort that included a very strong season on HC at the end of the season. Both things do not go well together, if you don’t know that.
Also, you are now reverting to personal judgement to become the father of all judgements.
Not what "
we were hoping for".
Who are "we"?
Because noone anointed you to be the voice of the tennis community even in this small place.
There are plenty of tennis fans (me included) that are enjoying the tournament and think that it is a great tournament with very enjoyable finalists. Despite of being a Federer fan I am not one bit sad that he got the boot and am very much looking forward to watching the final ( much more than in the previous 2-3 years actually).
