How many slams will the 'Top 4' end up with?

tenniswriter · Sep 10, 2012

Hypothetical thread but yeah, at the end of their careers, how many slams do you think the top 4 will end up with? I say:
Federer-18
Nadal-13(which will probably drive him insane, given how superstitious he is

)
Djokovic-9
Murray-6

Zarfot Z · Sep 10, 2012

Murray won't win 6
Nadal only has 1 slam left in him, MAX

Federer and Djokovic are solid predictions.

Vertiz · Sep 10, 2012

Federer - 19 (Roger I believe has one more major in him but he never ceases to amaze the world so I'm going to give him 2 more b/c of that.)
Nadal - 12 (I agree with Zarfot..do you play RS2 by any chance?)
Djokovic - 10 (I believe he will win 5 more slams over the next 5 years. 1 next year, 2 the year after that, and 2 over the last 2 years. By then he will be 30 years of age and his aggressive baseliner style will have worn down his body to where he will have trouble recreating the magical defense that sustains him at the top today)
Murray - 7 (He has so far basically mirrored Ivan Lendl's career. I believe Murray is as hard of a worker as Lendl was and a little less talented. For this reason I will give him another 6 slams before his career is said and done. Lendl ended with 8, Murray will end with 7 IMO.)

octogon · Sep 10, 2012

Depends on the fitness of Nadal.

Nadal has the number of all the other players. Sure, Djokovic went on a hot streak and damaged Nadal's confidence, but he put that right within a year, nearly beat him at the Australian, then went on to whip him 3 times in a row.

If Nadal can stay healthy for the next 4 years, then I think he can win at least 6 more slams, which would put him at 17. And you can't count him out because of injury. His career has looked "over" several times, yet he bounced back to have some of the best seasons of his career. The fact that they don't feel his injury is serious enough to require surgery leads me to think it'll be another one of those injuries where he comes back playing better than ever.

Federer has 1 more in him, so I guess he finishes on 18.

Djokovic will probably finish on 8.

Murray will finish on 4-5.

Bud · Sep 10, 2012

Zarfot Z said:
Murray won't win 6
Nadal only has 1 slam left in him, MAX

Federer and Djokovic are solid predictions.

Many were predicting this 5-7 slams ago

- - -

Nadal: 14
Federer: 17
Djokovic: 8
Murray: 4

DolgoSantoro · Sep 10, 2012

Bud said:
Many were predicting this 5-7 slams ago

Yes, but it has to be true at some point no? Personally I say he can get 2-3 more tops

cc0509 · Sep 11, 2012

Federer--17 or 18

Nadal-- 14

Djokovic--8

Murray--4 or 5

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kalyan4fedever · Sep 11, 2012

tenniswriter said:
Hypothetical thread but yeah, at the end of their careers, how many slams do you think the top 4 will end up with? I say:
Federer-18
Nadal-13(which will probably drive him insane, given how superstitious he is )
Djokovic-9
Murray-6

So if the Big 4 end up sharing the slams for the next three years (likely), your logic may fail.

Nathaniel_Near · Sep 11, 2012

I see Djokovic ending up with 8 or so and Murray ending up with 3 or so.

DM07 · Sep 11, 2012

Federer - 18
Nadal - 13
Djokovic - 9
Murray - 4

Russeljones · Sep 11, 2012

Bud said:
Many were predicting this 5-7 slams ago

- - -

Nadal: 14
Federer: 17
Djokovic: 8
Murray: 4

This looks plausible.

Monsieur_DeLarge · Sep 11, 2012

Federer ~ 17
Nadal ~ 14
Djokovic ~ 10
Murray ~ 4

Regards,
MDL

tank_job · Sep 11, 2012

Federer: 20
Nadal: 18
Djokovic: 18
Murray: 0

kalyan4fedever · Sep 11, 2012

Russeljones said:
This looks plausible.

The list suggests atleast 3 slams to others outside top 4 in the next 3 years. nah i think it may be difficult with the inconsistency observed outside top 4.

Federer -19
Nadal -17
Djokovic-11
Murray -6

MichaelNadal · Dec 23, 2020

tennis_pro said:
26-year old without 1 month. Federer at the same stage had more majors, more titles, was ranked no 1 for longer, had less MS but more WTF's (in fact Nadal still has none), reached 9 consecutive major finals and never got owned across 3 surfaces in his prime to such a degree as Nadal was against Djokovic.

Time is running up for Nadal...

Zarfot Z said:
Murray won't win 6
Nadal only has 1 slam left in him, MAX

Federer and Djokovic are solid predictions.

Vertiz said:
Federer - 19 (Roger I believe has one more major in him but he never ceases to amaze the world so I'm going to give him 2 more b/c of that.)
Nadal - 12 (I agree with Zarfot..do you play RS2 by any chance?)
Djokovic - 10 (I believe he will win 5 more slams over the next 5 years. 1 next year, 2 the year after that, and 2 over the last 2 years. By then he will be 30 years of age and his aggressive baseliner style will have worn down his body to where he will have trouble recreating the magical defense that sustains him at the top today)
Murray - 7 (He has so far basically mirrored Ivan Lendl's career. I believe Murray is as hard of a worker as Lendl was and a little less talented. For this reason I will give him another 6 slams before his career is said and done. Lendl ended with 8, Murray will end with 7 IMO.)

octogon said:
Depends on the fitness of Nadal.

Nadal has the number of all the other players. Sure, Djokovic went on a hot streak and damaged Nadal's confidence, but he put that right within a year, nearly beat him at the Australian, then went on to whip him 3 times in a row.

If Nadal can stay healthy for the next 4 years, then I think he can win at least 6 more slams, which would put him at 17. And you can't count him out because of injury. His career has looked "over" several times, yet he bounced back to have some of the best seasons of his career. The fact that they don't feel his injury is serious enough to require surgery leads me to think it'll be another one of those injuries where he comes back playing better than ever.

Federer has 1 more in him, so I guess he finishes on 18.

Djokovic will probably finish on 8.

Murray will finish on 4-5.

cc0509 said:
Federer--17 or 18

Nadal-- 14

Djokovic--8

Murray--4 or 5

DM07 said:
Federer - 18
Nadal - 13
Djokovic - 9
Murray - 4

Monsieur_DeLarge said:
Federer ~ 17
Nadal ~ 14
Djokovic ~ 10
Murray ~ 4

Regards,
MDL

junior74 · Dec 23, 2020

People had high hopes for new generations to come along, as they normally do in tennis. Not happening in the SoMe era.

Cortana · Dec 23, 2020

tank_job said:
Federer: 20
Nadal: 18
Djokovic: 18
Murray: 0

Pretty goos guess 8 years ago lol.

ibbi · Dec 23, 2020

Cortana said:
Pretty goos guess 8 years ago lol.

Pretty good if you excuse the fact that Murray won his first slam on September 10th 2012 and this post was made the day after

octogon · Dec 23, 2020

MichaelNadal said:

Damn...that was a long time ago. LOL! I massively underestimated Djokovic, but I think I was pretty close with the others (and I still underestimated Nadal, even though I had him getting a pretty high total).

BackhandDTL · Dec 23, 2020

*Nadal catches up in slams, on the verge of leading*

Fred trolls: What about weeks.

*Djokovic also overtakes that record*

Fred trolls: what about H2....what about number of maste.....what about pretty backhand?

Deleted member 21996 · Dec 23, 2020

MichaelNadal said:

Britanian · Dec 23, 2020

Cortana said:
Pretty goos guess 8 years ago lol.

Yes indeed

clout · Dec 23, 2020

Monsieur_DeLarge said:
Federer ~ 17
Nadal ~ 14
Djokovic ~ 10
Murray ~ 4

Regards,
MDL

Tbh this was a good guess for 8 years ago. I think the big 3 all had unexpected late career surges post-2017 that no one really saw coming, and a lot folks also thought Murray could've won more after breaking through.

socallefty · Dec 23, 2020

Even if we guess today, it might still be difficult for someone to get it right for all three of the Big3. I keep thinking they will stop winning Slams and they keep proving me wrong.

Britanian · Dec 24, 2020

Federer ~ 20 + gold medal
Nadal ~ 22
Djokovic ~ 22 + 8 YEC + 8 YE N°1

Yugram · Dec 24, 2020

BackhandDTL said:
*Nadal catches up in slams, on the verge of leading*

Fred trolls: What about weeks.

*Djokovic also overtakes that record*

Fred trolls: what about H2....what about number of maste.....what about pretty backhand?

What about money from sponsors?

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