Big 4 in a 100 meter dash

metsman

G.O.A.T.
So in the theme of the olympics how fast do you think Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Delpo, at their peaks..:D:D:D

I keed I keed...Anyways how do you think it would go?

I think it's clear that Nadal and Murray would be the top 2 and Djokovic and Federer next but in what order? Do you think any of them could break 12 seconds? I don't know a ton about track.
 

TupeloDanger

Professional
So in the theme of the olympics how fast do you think Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Delpo, at their peaks..:D:D:D

I keed I keed...Anyways how do you think it would go?

I think it's clear that Nadal and Murray would be the top 2 and Djokovic and Federer next but in what order? Do you think any of them could break 12 seconds? I don't know a ton about track.
Big fan of the sneaky Murray slight you snuck in there.
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
Murray and Djokovic. Nadal would lead after 30-40 meters. Federer would get disqualified for moving too graciously.
"Um...hey Rog, you have to run, you can't float"

Nah but I think Nadal would win...people forget how fast the guy was circa 05-08. I think he has a slight advantage in both acceleration and top end speed over Murray.

Djokovic has never struck me as a really fast sprinter and he's not really built for it either. His court coverage is based more around insane agility and flexibility, particularly in flexibility which is where he leads the other 3 and all tennis players besides like Scricaphan. Peak Fed might have been slightly faster in a straight sprint. Maybe I'm wrong.
 
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Deleted member 743561

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Murray and Djokovic. Nadal would lead after 30-40 meters. Federer would get disqualified for moving too graciously.
So, who takes the dash on rollerskates? If Fed was the first to bring "wheeled" shoes to the hardcourts, does he win by default? Djok's sliding prowess might be worth something.
 

buscemi

Hall of Fame
Do you think any of them could break 12 seconds? I don't know a ton about track.

Good high school runners can run 100 meters in under 11 seconds. For instance, here are the results from the Kansas state 4A track meet:

4A Boys 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
1) Jafar Armstrong, Bishop Miege (10.83)
2) Denvoir Griffin, Bishop Miege (10.97)
3) Dannerick Yates, Parsons (10.99)​

I think Nadal and Murray could probably run in the 10.7 range with some minimal training.
 

Poisoned Slice

Bionic Poster
I always go back to Top Spin. :p Yes, I know it isn't real.

I'd have to fancy Nadal to win. Maybe not now, but if we assume this race takes place at their 100m prime. Not sure about the other places in the race.
 

xFedal

Legend
Good high school runners can run 100 meters in under 11 seconds. For instance, here are the results from the Kansas state 4A track meet:

4A Boys 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
1) Jafar Armstrong, Bishop Miege (10.83)
2) Denvoir Griffin, Bishop Miege (10.97)
3) Dannerick Yates, Parsons (10.99)​

I think Nadal and Murray could probably run in the 10.7 range with some minimal training.
Murray and Nole could do 10.5......
 

Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
We've had this thread before, I recall.

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/inde...er-nadal-djokovic-murray.521876/#post-8977197

I say the same now that I said back then:

People shouldn't look to much into tennis-specific movement when judging a 100m. Doesn't matter with turns, twist and these things. When it comes to speed for 100m in a straight line I'm quite confident Murray would beat these guys.

And yea, I'm thinking Noel and Fred in the last spots, but no idea of which order. I generally perceive Fed as the more fast-twitch guy of the two, but I also perceive him as lazier, lol.

Edit: and Monfils would wrek face against the tour. No joke, he was the French junior champ at age 13 and 14 and only opted out of pursuing it professionally because of his love of tennis (made the wrong choice Gael, lol). Supposedly his athletics coach claims he was talented enough to be able to make an olympics final.
 
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metsman

G.O.A.T.
Good high school runners can run 100 meters in under 11 seconds. For instance, here are the results from the Kansas state 4A track meet:

4A Boys 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
1) Jafar Armstrong, Bishop Miege (10.83)
2) Denvoir Griffin, Bishop Miege (10.97)
3) Dannerick Yates, Parsons (10.99)​

I think Nadal and Murray could probably run in the 10.7 range with some minimal training.
didn't borg once get timed? What was his time?
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
We've had this thread before I recall.

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/inde...er-nadal-djokovic-murray.521876/#post-8977197

I say the same now that I said back then:



And yea, I'm thinking Noel and Fred in the last spots, but no idea of which order. I generally perceive Fed as the more fast-twitch guy of the two, but I also perceive him as lazier, lol.
do you really think Murray has more top end speed than Nadal? Nadal I'm sure probably has better acceleration.

I feel like Federer has absolutely ridiculous reaction times. There's just something about his footwork too that's so efficient and easy and his ability to hit and time the ball perfectly without his feet set. Don't really know what it is. Fed I feel like was just born to play tennis, the other 3 would have more success in other sports in general, although I think Fed would be the best baseball player of the 4.
 
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do you really think Murray has more top end speed than Nadal? Nadal I'm sure probably has better acceleration.

I feel like Federer has absolutely ridiculous reaction times. There's just something about his footwork too that's so efficient and easy and his ability to hit and time the ball perfectly without his feet set. Don't really know what it is. Fed I feel like was just born to play tennis, the other 3 would have more success in other sports in general, although I think Fed would be the best baseball player of the 4.

Would he be allowed to swing w/ one hand? Giving the advantage to the double-clutchers there. ;)
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
Nadal would clearly be the best soccer player...I could see Djokovic playing hockey and Murray maybe football. Djokovic would probably be a great swimmer too.
 

xFedal

Legend
As a comparison, here are top 100 meter times by footballers/soccer players. Number 7 is at 10.8 seconds. Two guys are tied at number 5, with 10.6 seconds. #4 is at 10.5 seconds.
Umm...no.

Ohh come on now..... Nadal/Murray/Nole will be faster than 10.5 at peak..... Usain Peak is 9.58.... they probably have a 10.3 personal best or something at their peak..... Now some might not break within 11 seconds lol.
 
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I feel Fed has the quickest wrist and reaction times which would be perfect for baseball.
Yeah, I think the anticipation piece of it plays a big role too. Not sure how you'd quantify it exactly. I've been wondering how you categorize that ability to perfectly gauge distance, etc. (e.g., to time runs and swings perfectly for a given point in space).
 

Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
do you really think Murray has more top end speed than Nadal? Nadal I'm sure probably has better acceleration.

I feel like Federer has absolutely ridiculous reaction times. There's just something about his footwork too that's so efficient and easy and his ability to hit and time the ball perfectly without his feet set. Don't really know what it is. Fed I feel like was just born to play tennis, the other 3 would have more success in other sports in general, although I think Fed would be the best baseball player of the 4.

I just honestly rate Murray higher in terms of straight line sprinting. What makes Nadal so unparalleled to me is his agility and ability to make insane twists and turns and change direction — he excels at all of those very tennis-specific movement skills. Nadal also arguably produces higher quality shots than anyone else when he reaches the difficult balls. While some other players might be able to reach the same balls, he pulls out some impossible passing shot when he gets there.

But just in terms of top speed I'd argue Murray reaches higher speed even in the 10m sprints on a tennis court, and I think on a 100m it would just be more pronounced. With Monfils even more so obviously.

Then again, I could just be spectacularly wrong and deceived by the tree-trunk thighs of the dour Scot.
 

xFedal

Legend
It would be like 0.001sec between Djok and Fed (Murray and Nadal thick legs don't suit to sprint)
Novak would burn Federer in 100m RACE.... 200M RACE.... 300M RACE... 400M RACE.... 800M RACE.... 5000M RACE.... 10,000 METER RACE.....
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
Yeah, I think the anticipation piece of it plays a big role too. Not sure how you'd quantify it exactly. I've been wondering how you categorize that ability to perfectly gauge distance, etc. (e.g., to time runs and swings perfectly for a given point in space).
yeah that is exactly what I mean for Fed...his footwork just blows the mind with how natural and efficient it is. Nadal probably has the quickest feet of the 4 but he actually runs around his forehand while fed just glides around it.
 

buscemi

Hall of Fame
Ohh come on now..... Nadal/Murray/Nole will be faster than 10.5 at peak..... Usain Peak is 9.58.... they probably have a 10.3 personal best or something at their peak..... Now some might not break within 11 seconds lol.

Here are the top times at the Pac-12 track & field championships for 2016:

1 Lewis, Reggie AZST 10.38
2 Jackson, Adoree USC 10.44
3 Allen, Devon UO 10.48
4 Underwood, Isiah AZST 10.49
5 Powell, Leon UCLA 10.59
6 Walker, Kenny UCLA 10.66
7 Muhammad, Khalfani CAL 10.67​

This is the cream of the crop for college runners, who have been training/running 100 meters for years.
 

xFedal

Legend
Here are the top times at the Pac-12 track & field championships for 2016:

1 Lewis, Reggie AZST 10.38
2 Jackson, Adoree USC 10.44
3 Allen, Devon UO 10.48
4 Underwood, Isiah AZST 10.49
5 Powell, Leon UCLA 10.59
6 Walker, Kenny UCLA 10.66
7 Muhammad, Khalfani CAL 10.67​

This is the cream of the crop for college runners, who have been training/running 100 meters for years.
I am sticking with my original comment.... The 3 tennis players I mentioned are very fast.
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
I just honestly rate Murray higher in terms of straight line sprinting. What makes Nadal so unparalleled to me is his agility and ability to make insane twists and turns and change direction — he excels at all of those very tennis-specific movement skills. Nadal also arguably produces higher quality shots than anyone else when he reaches the difficult balls. While some other players might be able to reach the same balls, he pulls out some impossible passing shot when he gets there.

But just in terms of top speed I'd argue Murray reaches higher speed even in the 10m sprints on a tennis court, and I think on a 100m it would just be more pronounced. With Monfils even more so obviously.

Then again, I could just be spectacularly wrong and deceived by the tree-trunk thighs of the dour Scot.
well for Monfils we actually have data that suggests if he had trained vigorously he could have approached an olympic caliber sprinter.

The other guys it is not as clear. Murray and Nadal are clearly faster than the other 2 but man it seems hard to believe that Murray would be faster than young rafa. Guy was such an animal and his feet were so quick. Possible though, Murray can fly.
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
Here are the top times at the Pac-12 track & field championships for 2016:

1 Lewis, Reggie AZST 10.38
2 Jackson, Adoree USC 10.44
3 Allen, Devon UO 10.48
4 Underwood, Isiah AZST 10.49
5 Powell, Leon UCLA 10.59
6 Walker, Kenny UCLA 10.66
7 Muhammad, Khalfani CAL 10.67​

This is the cream of the crop for college runners, who have been training/running 100 meters for years.
yeah Nadal or Murray would probably be in the 10.7-10.9 range
 

Red Rick

Bionic Poster
Murray will win it hands down. I read somewhere that Murray has this record of fastest 100 meters in mens tennis but that was some 2 years ago.
I'm not believing Murray is faster than Gael Monfils over 100m, who could've been a professional track athlete
 

mightyrick

Legend
I'm not believing Murray is faster than Gael Monfils over 100m, who could've been a professional track athlete

You're probably correct. Although this thread is about the BIG 4, so your point isn't relevant to this particular discussion.

But even if you expanded it to the entire ATP (anybody with at least one point), I'm not even sure that Monfils would be the fastest person in the ATP. Not out of a couple thousand tennis players worldwide.
 
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Would be sweet if a tennis pro actually somehow pulled a Bo Jackson/Deion Sanders and got paid for multi-sports.
 

Red Rick

Bionic Poster
At the risk of sounding (more?) fanboi - Murray had the opportunity to join Glasgow Rangers as a 15 year old but chose to focus on tennis.
Probably the right decision. Doesn't have enough off court **** ups to be a proper football player.
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
At the risk of sounding (more?) fanboi - Murray had the opportunity to join Glasgow Rangers as a 15 year old but chose to focus on tennis.
yeah both were excellent soccer player too when younger. Nadal has the genes though.
 

Red Rick

Bionic Poster
yeah Nadal or Murray would probably be in the 10.7-10.9 range
Are they really that quick?

I think Murray would be quicker than Nadal, mostly because his physique seems more suited to 100m sprinting than Nadal's. I have doubts Djokovic would beat peak Federer
 

Red Rick

Bionic Poster
well buscemi posted stats that said high schoolers could run that fast.
Maybe I just have a really overrated view of what times are good in a sprint. I seem to remember a German football player who could do 10.8 and he was supposedly super fast. Or it was 10.38, I don't know anymore. He played for the German footbal team like 8 years ago??
 

metsman

G.O.A.T.
Maybe I just have a really overrated view of what times are good in a sprint. I seem to remember a German football player who could do 10.8 and he was supposedly super fast. Or it was 10.38, I don't know anymore. He played for the German footbal team like 8 years ago??
I think I read an american soccer player who used to run track could do it in like 10.4.
 

Sysyphus

Talk Tennis Guru
Yeah, elite high school sprinters should still be a tad faster than the tennis players barring the Guru, is my guess.
 

Poisoned Slice

Bionic Poster
At the risk of sounding (more?) fanboi - Murray had the opportunity to join Glasgow Rangers as a 15 year old but chose to focus on tennis.

Andy Murray, scorer of a hat trick in the first old firm premier league derby in years. Good job he went with Tennis or he would have been playing at challenger level for a few seasons.
 

mightyrick

Legend
Maybe I just have a really overrated view of what times are good in a sprint. I seem to remember a German football player who could do 10.8 and he was supposedly super fast. Or it was 10.38, I don't know anymore. He played for the German footbal team like 8 years ago??

Well, let's put it into perspective. At the professional level, running a 10.2 is slow in the 100m dash. Deion Sanders ran a 10.26.
 
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Deleted member 743561

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We've had this thread before, I recall.

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/inde...er-nadal-djokovic-murray.521876/#post-8977197

I say the same now that I said back then:



And yea, I'm thinking Noel and Fred in the last spots, but no idea of which order. I generally perceive Fed as the more fast-twitch guy of the two, but I also perceive him as lazier, lol.

Edit: and Monfils would wrek face against the tour. No joke, he was the French junior champ at age 13 and 14 and only opted out of pursuing it professionally because of his love of tennis (made the wrong choice Gael, lol). Supposedly his athletics coach claims he was talented enough to be able to make an olympics final.

All seriousness though, which do you think was the better financial decision? Would say he's a millionaire from tennis... but aside from a handful of sprinting legends, I'm guessing it doesn't happen. Would he have been Usain Bolt level?
 

buscemi

Hall of Fame
Maybe I just have a really overrated view of what times are good in a sprint. I seem to remember a German football player who could do 10.8 and he was supposedly super fast. Or it was 10.38, I don't know anymore. He played for the German footbal team like 8 years ago??

That might be David Odonkor. In the article I linked, he was ranked as the 5th fastest footballer, with a fastest 100m time of 10.6 seconds.
 
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