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Sure, but I meant in comparison of never happening in 50 editions at 6-6 versus happening at the first chance and at 12-12. THAT was absurdly unlikely.

As a Federer fan I agree here. I mean, he didn't even celebrate after he won the match. Not that I especially like those shirt-ripping moments or other over the top celebrations, but where when not there did he have all the right in the world for doing something like that? He just won Wimbledon...

According to my observation over the past 20 years the difference between Federer and Nadal was at least just as big (if not bigger) than between Nadal and Djokovic. But maybe that's partly because I'm from Germany and Federer speaks German. However, there are also quite many people, especially...

Musetti played 5 sets against Djokovic at RG twice, one of those matches at age 19 and in a year when Djokovic won RG in the end. And by the way, I just said he might be a candidate, not that he will definitely do it.

I mean, if Tsitsipas, Ruud and Zverev recently reached that final, then why not someone like Musetti? However, will it exactly be him in the next 2 years? I doubt it, but who knows.

I would still favor Sinner, but there will always be some danger that he loses his #1 ranking until the points of the 4 missed Masters will be back in early 2026. If Alcaraz wins Barcelona and Madrid before Sinner comes back, it will be a lead of almost 2000 points in the race, and Alcaraz...

Becker is a great player obviously, but Raonic and Isner are surprisingly HIGH on the list, not the other way around. They only serve half of the points in a TB of course, so one would expect them to be close to their normal abilities in TBs as well. The serve usually helps a servebot REACHING...

Both players were bad starters this week and always came back. I think now the 3rd set will be very open again.

Good post with insight in many other sports. I might add when talking about something will "never" be beaten, then it's usually assumed that careers will always have at least a comparably similar length. But now we approach normal career lengths of 20 years in most sports, and who knows, it...

Fully agree. It's strange that most of the time a thread about a player dominating another one is about H2H. In reality this alone means nothing, because you dominate someone by winning more big tournaments or finish on top of the other in the ranking. Otherwise one could say Nadal dominated...

He has shown his ability to come back from such a start, for example in the RG match against Sinner last year. However, it's very hard to consistently dominate a season that way.

Good analysis IMO. The only one I disagree with is 1992. I think Becker wins this and also beats Ivanisevic. Only his nemesis Agassi stopped him from winning another Wimbledon. Becker might have lost to Sampras if Sampras beats Ivanisevic though, but that's debatable for that year.

There are no "soft" Australian Opens in 1989/90 anymore. Every top player other than Agassi (absent until 1995) was there. And certainly there is no "soft" RG. I guess I know what you mean, the rather easy final opponent. However, it doesn't matter whom someone faces directly, it matters who was...

I'm honestly a bit angry at the fact that there were cameras at that Lenglen-Wills match, and yet so few bits and pieces of the actual match were covered. I mean, it obviously was 100 years ago, but really great films about heavyweight boxing fights or the Olympics of the 20s show that it was...

It was actually interesting how underrated Sampras was on grass (or even in general) just until his run started with that 1993 Wimbledon win. In German TV Sampras was seen as a rather easy SF opponent for Becker that year, and I have to say that German commentators are usually very fair and will...

I agree that Alcaraz has a bad season by his standars up to now. However, the other point needs to be seen. I mean Sinner is a clear thing, but if Draper and Mensik will really be rivals at the top for years to come is very debatable.

They made me watch every single masters tournament during their great days as if it was a Slam. And the GOAT race made every Slam more meaningful than ever.

The 90-degree-angle between legs and upper body reminded me of Sampras during the 5th set tiebreak against Corretja at the 1996 US Open. ;)

Do you think his body allows him to play full matches right now? I doubt it, because otherwise we would see him play exhibitions from time to time. It's almost 4 years after his last Wimbledon and 2.5 years after his official retirement now, and he loves tennis too much not to do so if healthy.

Strange to see Chang on top of this list when it actually happened over a year after he himself won his first and only Slam.

I expect the same, for two reasons: 1) Someone who relied so much on intuition and improvisation wouldn't be good in explaining what he does, let alone giving advice to others, considering the most likely much lesser abilities of those other players in that regard. 2) I don't see him as...

I wouldn't go that far. But Djokovic always plays to win a tournament, and if he doesn't, he sees the event as a failure. And obviously he also wouldn't thank anyone if he loses let's say in R16. Of course there are exceptions, like last year when he came back from a severe injury and didn't...

IMO with football teams it might happen even easier than with single competitors. Responsible people can change and turn everything negative, a club might even be sold to a dubious owner/investor etc., and all the former magic of being a fan might be gone. Because what you were fan of doesn't...

If what the other poster said was true, then the establishment would be Federer's puppet.

It was extremely unlucky that this didn't result in a CYGS despite actually being the better achievement. She even won the four consecutive Slams in the usual order, only that from 1977-1985 the order was RG to AO.

But to be fair, all of those H2H matches were in the 2nd half of the season which generally favors the fast court specialist. Wimbledon and WTF is Sampras territory anyway, and the US Open series was usually considered to be the faster hardcourt season either (at least compared to Australian...

I usually agree with most of the things you say, but here IMO Agassi’s lead was way too big to argue for Sampras, even though I was always rooting for Sampras against Agassi. Agassi won by 5048 to 3024 points. Imagine, that’s close to twice as many points. So even if Sampras is fit and wins the...

If he really doesn't lose the #1 ranking due to the effects of his ban (we might have to wait until he includes those 4 Masters to his ranking NEXT year to get the full picture), then I start wondering if he will overtake Federer's total of 237 consecutive weeks. Especially when realizing that...

I have a feeling that these days people are not in need of having idols that much anymore. In my teenage days around 20 years ago most boys pretended to be a famous sportsperson or musician etc., and most girls acted liked one of those celebrity guys was their boyfriend. I had quite a lot to do...

For bigger context obviously 2002, their last final. Considering the match alone and the tension when it happened live, then 2001. However, I would never use that 2001 match to bring someone new to tennis. Simply for the reason that regardless of the quality, a match with zero breaks isn't...