strong era

Bublik stands for many. Never has tennis been more competitive at the top100 level, and the improvement at the Challengers is even bigger. All this has compressed the margin between your average top25 player and the rest of the tour, making winning matches for the favorites a lot harder...

I've seen many Djokovic enjoyers, and some neutrals who appear to have bought it, praise 2015 for its stronk cumpetishen, certain debaters even going as far as to claim it's one of the most competitive seasons in modern memory. Meanwhile, 2006 gets typically marked as a relatively weak season...

Berdych beat a fairly subpar Federer and Djokovic for the loss of just one set at 2010 Wimbledon; beat a decent Federer at 2012 USO; straight-setted a mediocre Murray at 2010 RG; had a set point to go two sets up against peakish Nadal at 2012 AO; dominated a subpar Nadal at 2015 AO. Tsonga...

Another mug poll. Debate competition vs results etc. The poll's a bit complicated since Roddick/Hewitt and Zverev/Tsitsipas are close so I didn't order them; the only clear distinction is Medvedev being above Zverev and Tsitsipas (better results and H2H in the same era). I'm obviously voting for...

Let us celebrate Joao Fonseca's W at the Lexington Challenger with a small compilation of his devastating forehand. His groundstrokes aesthetics and biomechanics are supreme. https://hughclarke.substack.com/p/fonseca-death-of-a-backhand-indian His forehand stance is iconic. Kamehameha stance...

thread moved to GPPD :cool: https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/joao-fonsecas-brutal-forehand.773341/

Assuming slam performances stay identical with respect to age for the sake of comparison, of course. Which slams does Djokovic win in this hypothetical? 2007 Djokovic in 2001: AO, RG, WB - obviously no USO - no (loses to pre-final Sampras or Hewitt) 2008 Djokovic in 2002: AO - obviously yes...

Don't you think? This is a topic I've been thinking about for some time now, fueled by some interactions here. It gets lumped in with the next two years as, collectively, the 2014-16 "Djokovic weak era". And I mean, sure, we can absolutely say that for 2016, there's no denying the competition...

Murray's prime arguably started immediately upon his Wimbledon 2008 breakthrough QF, here's why based on big tournament results: 2008 from Wimbledon onwards: 28-6 (82.4%); 1 slam F, 2 masters W 2009: 42-11 (79.2%) and 33-7 (82.5%) excluding clay; 2 masters W 2010: 38-13 (74.5%) and 32-9...

Clay: 2007 Nadal: super dominant, routined everyone but the toughest opponents. Dominated MC and Barcelona, bested supercharged Davydenko in epic Rome SF, one loss in Hamburg final when he was fairly tired and Federer was zoning like mad, but responded with a brilliant RG capped off with a...

For the purpose of this topic, let's place the relevant timeframe (when Pete was a legit contender) between his first and last Masters finals, i.e. 1991 Cincinnati - 2001 Indian Wells. Let us now examine Sampras's non-clay masters results during that period, by venue. Indian Wells: 2 W (1994...

08 Djokovic added to make it 7=7, given that he did play at a prime level then. Fedr relevant comp: Wim 03 - Roddick, Philippoussis Wim 04 - Hewitt, Roddick Wim 05 - Hewitt, Roddick Wim 06 - Ancic, Nadal Wim 07 - Ferrero, Nadal Wim 08 - Nadal Wim 09 - Söderling, Roddick Djovk relevant comp...

Look at Rafas movement here. Back when the era was stronger and wasn't dominated by a bunch of old players.