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Being #1 and having won 2 slams at 20, disadvantage sounds like an overstatement. He's literally 20, not everyone is Rafa Nadal or Boris Becker. Novak reached #1 as a 24 yo and had 1 slam win until AO 2011 when he was 4 months shy of 24 so there's a lot of room for improvement for Carlito

All those lockouts did the job

Not the only hater around though. Lots of drinking salty tears to be done

This is all you need to know, the author's name.

It's before tax btw. Novak pays his taxes in tax heaven, Nikola pays much more : https://fadeawayworld.net/nikola-jokic-is-making-46-9-million-next-year-but-he-will-only-get-24-2m-after-taxes-agent-tax-and-jock-tax

Unexpected, as I've written in another thread just an hour ago. But we'll take it for sure. :)

Thanks. I can assure you it's just on this forum, the 2007. He grew up in the club we used to play mid 2000's, I've been following him much less his entire career.

MTF ?

As someone who is on and off ( now days mostly off ) for the last 16 years, short answer is NO. No one predicted this. Back in the day people were predicting that Rafa's playing style is so physical and that there's not way he can sustain it over a longer period of time. Popular prediction was...

Lol, are you sure ?

Cry :cry:

Of course it does. 1HBH is universally considered to be pretty while 2HBH is not so basically many beholder's eyes give credit to the fact.

Would be lovely if we could have an updated list. :)

You can deny some things only for so long.

I'd say he was. Roddick was definitely in with a chance to win more slams. Just a glance at 2009 final scoreline can solve this issue.

It's an exciting shot but as much as one can love the beauty and the angles, an average 2HBH trumps a good 1HBH. The issue with Tsitsi is that his BH is not good as it is, not nearly enough quality in that shot to match the best one handed backhand artists so against a Djokovic's two hander he...

If Nadal is active, he is the favorite. Once Nadal retires one can consider other players as favorites for RG. Including Novak ( h2h on clay and 14 > 2 are clear )

This wasn't aimed at anyone in particular, I was just noticing. I think he's got a good chance of winning this AO, he's going to be a favorite for any GS as long as he gets into the main draw and by what we know now, there's no reason he can't play RG or W. If he goes to win both, which is...

Lots of talk on US legislation. If that's going to prevent him from taking all 4 it's going to be as if he'd already won them.

He can reach the tables in the back as well.

Wrong premise. The data you analyzed may have coincided with the slight decline in slam winning percentage but it's fair to say this has nothing to do with why.

Two things : 1 - He won 3 slams and got to the final with 27 out of 28 2 - It wasn't even close so you can't say "if only this or that", he was simply outplayed ( not getting into why & how ) Conclusion is that he can go on and be very competitive for a few more seasons if he decides to...

Actually I think Med has the game to beat him. Novak never liked playing guys who can hang in there as long as he can, even lesser players like Simon, PCBusta who were constantly running down and returning everything. We all talk about him being physically capable but everything has it's limit...

I disagree. The 2021 version would grind out the 2015 / 2011 version.

Goes without saying that it applies to everyone. :) I wouldn't use "hubris" in this context but you're entitled to think what you want. :unsure:

First of all, I wasn't comparing them or questioning if Federer was a better player ( he obviously is ), nor was I denying him his ATG status, so much about that. As for the 2nd part of your reply which is directed to myself, I stand by what I wrote before which provoked you to do a ad hominem -...

Same here. Cheers !

Wow, you still around

Change the sport, tennis is not for you mate

Yeah right.