how do you define epic btw? Because you are acting like he has never beaten nadal/djokovic/murray on the big stages. I assume you are one of those annoying weak era people and lmao because he is failing at his age to beat the no.1 player at the finals, everything he accomplished has fell apart and he deserves to be surpassed? Get over yourself. If either of them surpass him, good for them, but there is no such thing as they deserve to surpass him.
I will copy the same I wrote in the other topic:
He has beaten them either best of 3 matches, or when Djokovic was young.
Here's a lit of my definition of epic matches:
AO 2005 semi (Safin was here)
Masters Cup 2005 finals (Nalby was here)
Roma 2006 final (at this time, finals in M1000 were 5 setters)
Wimby 2008 final
AO 2009 final
USO 2009 final (Delpo was here)
USO 2010 semi
USO 2011 semi
Wimby 2014 final
And I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of them. All of these were EPIC, 5 setters matches, that Roger lost. Roger, aside from that 2007 Wimby final against a still not grass friendly Nadal was the only 'epic' match he won.
He then lost EVERY OTHER epic match. You could think this is BS, but how come the GOAT never win these kind of matches ? It only shows how fragile Roger's mindset is. Either he wins straight forward, or he loses when facing superior players or when he feels the match gets complicated (Delpo, Nalby matches are examples).
He had the chance to turn this tendency around in Wimbledon 2014, and likely on Sunday, and he failed, AGAIN.
You can't consider GOAT a guy how has lost ALL of this epic and heartbreaking matches. Unless, of course, you give so match credit to the easy finals he won against Hewitt, Roddick, Gonzalez, Baghadits, Soderling, etc etc.