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Since playing on clay minimizes the number of free points a player gets on their serve, beating Rafa on clay basically amounts to winning the majority of the baseline rallies in the match. Very few players in the history of tennis are equipped to do this. Next to nobody is equipped to do it at...

Arbitrary "name1 > name2" analysis, yay!

It's interesting that Zverev broke out before all of the non-Big3 players (except Thiem) and accumulated a number of wins over his younger peers pre-2019, yet still has the 2nd-worst aggregate h2h record

06 Nadal was better relative to the level of grass court tennis he was capable of producing at the time. 11 Nadal was better than 06 Nadal. For one, 11 Nadal actually knew how to finish points...

IIRC, Nadal routined him at the 2019 USO. I'm not sure he's played a tour-level main draw match since

This is dire.

What could he have done significantly better? He hit his spots on his serve (especially on big points), returned beautifully (especially on big points), got to net when needed, controlled the center of the court, changed pace with timely backhand slices, hit with consistent depth, picked his...

It is their fault. Every time.

I don't trust the results of actual tennis tournaments. I trust the experts on here who say he's done at 17. No way he wins another slam! 20-20-17!!!

I'm not sure that he's peaked; he could conceivably get a little better in some areas. But I do think that his peak, whatever it is, will be pretty short-lived. At the end of the day, standing 15 feet behind the baseline and hitting 80+ MPH groundstrokes almost every point is unsustainable...

Djokovic won't win Wimbledon 2021. Will retire with 17 slams. 20-20-17 4eva!

Yeah, I think it was a combination of spotty play and the fact that, no matter how average Osaka was, Brady was never going to make a real match of it. Gotta keep in mind that this was only Brady's second career tour-level final, and the first was (equivalent to) a WTA 250 in front of no crowd...

As somebody else pointed out, Nadal had a similar injury in 2009. He claims the tear grew from 6mm to 26mm over the course of the US Open. It's worth noting that he played Beijing less than a month later, then followed that up with deep runs at both Shanghai and Paris-Bercy. So it wasn't a...

I don't think there is evidence that COVID has had any lingering effects on his endurance. I do, however, have concerns about his energy level and intensity when there is no crowd. The difference in his energy between the Raonic/Zverev matches and the Karatsev/Medvedev matches was pretty...

The Melbourne logo behind the baseline

first set: 7/10 rest of match: 3/10

Be careful how you're phrasing the question. Don't wanna be rude to the other players.

My vote goes to Thiem and Zverev, 2020 USO. I expected a slam final and got an ATP 500 2nd round

Stefan Djokovic is already behind his father's pace, it seems!

What's the point of posting frequently on a tennis forum if you don't follow tennis? Also, what happened to 20-20-17? Goofy ass clown.

Novak will finish with 17. COVID decimated his endurance. Medvedev is the new endurance king.

Probably not. Djokovic sucks at tennis.

It's that simple. It's beyond me why folks can't seem to grasp that they aren't mutually exclusive.

Patrick McEnroe made that prediction

In some ways, Murray would be a tougher matchup than Novak for Medvedev. While Novak is the better returner overall because he has more weapons to get ahead in rallies given an adequate return, I think peak Murray was better at getting returns in play on quick courts and getting to neutral in...

That 2000 Final offers evidence that wins of this sort (emerging superstar defeats aging all-timer) don't necessarily indicate a changing of the guard. Sampras beat Safin at the same tournament the next year in straight sets, then won the tournament the following year. Meanwhile, Safin never...

Roger, Novak, Nadal

I agree that Med's chances are pretty good, but I'm not sure his variety will be what wins it for him. I think the kind of varied weaponry you've seen him use lately are a matter of his capitalizing on his opponent's mistakes or weaknesses. For instance, there were several occasions where...

Exactly. One reason for optimism for Novak fans is that this is a slam final. His loss to Medvedev in the ATP Finals RR last year seemed very much like a situation where he knew he didn't need to beat Daniil to advance to the semifinals, so he wasn't compelled to pay the physical tax needed to...

No, but he could've been had he not beaten Krajinovic in 5. The only male player who didn't have a 5-set win until the tournament at which they won their first slam was Mats Wilander at Roland Garros 1982. He collected his first career 5-set win in the 4th round vs Lendl, then won his first...