Better tennis players in those days.
Reminds me of a certain record of 10-21.
Djokovic did call them out.
Bug 3 heh. I might use this one.
None are capable of behaving or thinking this way, not even Thiem who is 27. They're all narcissists (except Med), obsessed with their brand on social media, amassing fortunes and doing nothing of consequence in the business end of slams.
Thing is, tennis has become such a lucrative sport once you've reached a certain level that they aren't going to go hungry if they don't win slams. This isn't the 1960s anymore where tennis was a night time side hustle to players who all held 9-5 jobs during the day and if you didn't win, you made next to nothing. Every player in the top 50-100 is retiring a multi-millionaire in their 30s, if they win some tournaments that's a big bonus.
I don't know but I think they also become really jaded because they enter the Tour with skewed expectations based on how fast youngsters used to break through and win ****. Then they enter the Tour, see how ****ing good the Big 3 actually are, and once it starts to look near impossible then complacency sets in.
That's a fair point, but at the same time the domination we've seen from the Big 3 is so unprecedented I have a hard time believing any of these young lads would even break into the top 10 10 years ago
Medvedev and Thiem both beat big 2 at the WTF
Well, they never did what Nalby did in the fall of 2007 beating all of them in a row in Madrid and Fedal in Paris.
that was 2007....djoker has not won a slam yet, nadal only won clay slams at that point
he meant big 4....incuding Murray. First time since July 2005 that Big 4 are not top 2...Medvedev was 9 years old back then
Don't you mean Novak Djokovic?
It's actually quite hard for me to get my head around the fact that there have only been four players ranked inside the top 2 for nearly sixteen years.
It's actually quite hard for me to get my head around the fact that there have only been four players ranked inside the top 2 for nearly sixteen years.
And what else have you been expecting from the generation born post 1990? I look at my sons and do not need to look any further. The guy ran 10.47 in 100m at the age of 18 and decided to pursue a different career because it was too damn hard to bust the chops for a sub-10 sec performance! The computer/mobile phone generation is soft, self-centred and existentially worry free to do anything that requires a sacrifice! The whole society is stuffed.
Again with this BS
Obviously Nalbandian was not the same anymore after 2007 either.
He was a very good player back in his day, but he wouldn't have become a main rival of Fed's like others have said.
