weak era

So Sinner has now won six consecutive matches against top tenners without dropping serve: Zverev & FAA in Paris, then FAA, Zverev, Shelton & ADM at the YEC. However, he might have to face Alcaraz in the final, who's been owning him 7-1 H2H over the last two seasons. Indoor hard should supposedly...

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...

As we know, we’ve just seen a guy put in a slam performance which - at least on paper - is one for the ages, featuring the following Complete domination of the world number 1, the reigning AO, USO, ATP finals and Wimbledon champion Limited Sinner to 69% 1st serve points won, 44% overall points...

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...

Another poll of the same sort, notwithstanding yesterday's one concerning Alcaraz vs Roddick getting wiped out by small cat action. Tsitsipas is obviously better than Ruud overall so far, so all options recognise that. As usual, chirp away with what silly stuff passes for your tennis opinions.

Everyone likes to talk about the "weak era" but I am going to now delineate the current thirty-year chronology of the true "weak era" in three distinct phases where the appearance of true all-time greats drastically dropped resulting in the complete devolution of tennis. 1995 to 2005 (The...

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...

Some fans keep bring up those concepts so I dig a little bit, what do you think? Career matches against toughest opponents with elo>=2400 Nole: 65 (36-29, 55.38%) Rafa: 56 (26-30, 46.43%) Fed: 42 (17-25, 40.48%) H2H against other big4 members during his own young peak years: Nole(11-16)...

First of all, forgive the super long post, but detail is needed for understanding. After Kralingen put up stats for Federer and Djokovic’s peak periods, 2004-2009 and 2011-2016, respectively, and Djokovic age 30s period, 2018-2023 in this thread, I decided to take a deep dive into the strength...

Last year Nadal went 20-0 at the start of the year. He beat Berrettini whose backhand looked as useless as ever and had that Herculean comeback vs a melting down Meddy in the AO final. At Acapulco he stepped up a gear and won the tournament without dropping a set, including a win over Meddy and...

Where anyone wins top titles and slams, where there isn't a single dominating force....but it will be even worse than those seasons because the current generation and their lives are seemingly spent on Social Media, a generation of Tsitsipas' posting pseudo-philosophy whilst posing half naked...

During Kyrgios - Tsitsipas, while they were closing the roof, one of the commentators (pretty sure it was John Lloyd) said: "Without being disrespectful, it really is the weakest Wimbledon we've seen since I can remember" Commentators usually always talk about how tennis has never been better...

I may sound as a salty Federer fan, which I think I am, but I really wish that these two guys finally stop winning all the Grand Slams, it's becoming tiresome. So let's bend the rules to try to keep Djokovic and Nadal from winning more majors, just two conditions: -They cannot be banned from...

AO Ferrer: Lost 2011 SF to prime Murray 4-6 7-6(2) 6-1 7-6(2) Lost 2012 QF to prime Djokovic 6-4 7-6(4) 6-1 Medvedev: Lost 2021 F to Oldovic 7-5 6-2 6-2 Lost 2022 F to Grandpal 2-6 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 7-5 RG Ferrer: lost 2012 SF to prime/peak Nadal 6-2 6-2 6-1 lost 2013 F to prime Nadal 6-3 6-2...

In 2001-2003 there was a vacuum because the Sampras era was over and Hewitt, Gustavo Kuerten and the veteran Agassi among others picked up the pieces somewhat until Federer's ascension to the top, during this period of time there were surprises winning or making finals of high level tournaments...

Chirp away, folks.

Performances worth considering: AO: Federer 2011, 12, 13; Djokovic 2019, 20, 21 RG: Federer 2011, 12, 15; Djokovic 2019, 20, 21 WB: Federer 2012, 14, 15; Djokovic 2018, 19, 21 USO: Federer 2011, 15; Djokovic 2018, 21 Ordering by level: AO: Djo 19 > Fed 11/12 = Djo 21 > Djo 20 > Fed 13 RG...

2008 Federer: Estoril W (Davydenko), MC F (Nadal), Rome QF (Stepanek), Hamburg F (Nadal), RG F (destroyed by Nadal) 2021 Nadal: Barcelona W (Tsitsipas), MC QF (Rublev), Madrid QF (Zverev), Rome W (Djokovic), RG SF (Djokovic)

Nadal: AO QF, USO F, 2 masters finals, YEC RR, 0 titles Murray: AO F, USO SF, 2 masters titles, YEC RR, a 500 & a 250 title However, Nadal leads HC Slam H2H for the season 1-0. What it tells us?

http://www.tennisabstract.com/blog/2020/10/12/not-all-twenties-are-created-equal/ 1. Read it entirely. 2. Discuss/ Disgust 3. I do not agree with the article, but I do love me some hot takes.

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...

Some people on here are hyping Zverev way too much so just wanted to put a little perspective on this thing. Slams won: Nadal: 3 Zverev: 0 Masters won: Nadal: 11 Zverev: 3 Slam QFs reached (or better): Nadal: 8 Zverev: 0 Zverev in this era is considered a booming young star but the truth is...

If Fed faced peak Nadal and Djokovic during his peak years, but then as he declines and has to deal with these next gen losers the same way Nadal and Djokovic have once they got olded. What would be his slam count? Would it be less or more than 20?

RIP Nadal's prospects of a title. Updated Link: http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/nitto-atp-finals-in-london-through-2020