big 4

Djokovic lost to 9th seed Sebastien Grosjean in 4 sets (7-5 6-4 5-7 6-4) Murray lost to 18th seed David Nalbandian in 5 sets (6-7(6) 1-6 6-0 6-4 6-1)

Ladies and gentlemen, tennis was, is and will continue to be in good hands! :) The final highlights, blocked on this website:

You don’t need 400 slides and 20,000 posts to settle this. Andy Murray sits in the 10-15 range of the greatest players of all time. That’s an ATG. You big 3 circle-jerking, Human Centipede level arselickers can cry about it amongst yourselves. End of discussion.

We can easily agree that 2004-23 is the most fitting 'Big3 Era' concept, dominated by one, two, or all three of them consistently throughout. However, at the core of this Big3 Era, Murray reached significant heights—taking the 2016 YE#1 and 2015 YE#2 rankings. His well defined prime (2008-2016)...

Slightly inspired by @Phenomenal thread on Madrid 2016 Nadal vs Murray, I also had a feeling at the time that Nadal was playing so much better on clay that year than the year prior. Before the injury forced him to withdraw, in his 2 matches played he dished out 3 breadsticks and 1 bagel. He...

Novak Djokovic (11 matches, all losses) 2006 'Bosch 2R: lost to Jan Hernych 6-2 6-4 2012 Cincy F: lost to Roger Federer 6-0 7-6(7) 2015 Doha QF: lost to Ivo Karlovic 6-7(2) 7-6(6) 6-4 2015 Cincy F: lost to Roger Federer 7-6(1) 6-3 2016 Dubai QF: lost to Feliciano Lopez 6-3 ret. 2016 Olympics...

I was reading the Australian Open Men's thread and a couple of posters were slating on Murray fans that they said "He was part of this big 4", nobody has said that, it's always been the case that it was a Top 3, then Murray then the rest. The British media on the other hand love to...

All these guys did epic inspirational stuff aged 35 at the AO. So let’s rank the runs: 4. Djokovic 2023 (could change depending on later rounds) 3. Federer 2017 = Nadal 2022 1.

Tsonga's retirement inspired this thread. Also, here is Jack Sackmann's January 2019 attempt to quantify all the players prevented from winning a major by the Big 4: http://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2019/01/11/the-big-four-and-grand-slam-title-blocks/

Tennis TV has clearly upped its game in publishing a lot of highlights and best-of videos. Today is the turn for the M1000 Cincinnati 2009 which in its time was called The Real Slam, due to the presence of the Big 4 in the semifinals of the tournament. To be honest, I only remembered the SF...

In my opinion, this guy was the best of the best in the 2nd tier of players outside the big 4 (Fed, Rafa, Djoko, Murray) during the late 2000s and early 2010s. Some significant accolades/results Ferrer posted: General: 20 years on tour, 1999-2019 High of #3 in the world (Top 10 for 292...

Ivan Lendl is record holder with 18. Also, Rafa and Med are baffled by Andy's face, scarry stuff. Novak is smiling because he is furthest away from him.