Yeah, Rafa is really lucky to have had to cancel another USO (which he won "just" 4 times - 2/3 previous years), and REALLY lucky to have had just one warm-up event for FO, which was VERY LUCKILY an indoor event in very luckily during a cold October.
I'm serious. The whole Corona-thing is damaging the GOAT-debate. While Djokovic gets the most weeks #1 gifted, he can't play his best GS tournaments. Nadal might play RG twice in a row, lol. Federer is injuried while tennis is cancelled, what a lucky guy. Are you srsly not seeing the problem right now?
Eureka.
Fedfans (and some Djokofans) have been claiming this nonsense for years.
And there is already another Australian Open that got cancelled a few days ago.
Golf: Australia Open cancelled for first time since World War Two
The 105th edition of the country’s oldest and most prestigious tournament, scheduled to take place at Melbourne’s Kingston Heath Golf Club, had already been postponed from its usual slot in November.indianexpress.com
Wimbledon 2020 cancelled:#18
USO 2020 defaulted:#19
AO 2021 cancelled:#20
Huh? How is any of this helping Fed?
Silly you, Fed has been in a rocking chair since 2013.Obviously one less event to change the balance of power! Thiem's been the only one outside of the Big 3 to win a major in the last 4 season! With Roger near retirement, he needs to slow down this onslaught to his records which are slowly falling by the wayside before he's even settled into his rocking chair!
Tiley just figuring this out now?
This was a huge issue the minute he announced and Australia has even been retricting travel between states. They are an island nation essentially and they are going to lean towards the very conservative side as they actually have a hope of keeping their numbers down.
No player is going down there with 14 day quarantine rule. Wouldn't even really be a slam.
I thought winter was worse for C19 then summer?Tiley just figuring this out now?
You can cancel the Australian Open right now. The government might relax the quarantine rule by the end of the ATP season, but they're almost guaranteed to have a Covid wave worse than any yet as their Summers are extremely hot. Low numbers to now make this even harder to stop.
They will waive it just like everyone else.
I've been following the data and Persian Gulf was getting crushed in May as it heated up. Then in the USA it started in Southern states and came up with the weather. The basic problem is when its really, really hot people need to be indoors, probably air conditioned, and in the Winter when its really cold you have the same problem. Here Florida and Texas initially did exceptionally well and then it got hot. Australia is trying very hard, but I've live there for a year and in Victoria on the coast we had a day where is was 110F/42 C and that's the part of Australia next to Antarctica. Sydney, Brisbane, Perth will all be hotterer on average.
This would literally end the slam race.
Yeah! I don't even want to imagine how insanely heated it would get on the forums with all the Federer fans and Djokovic fans crying foul and unleashing their rage and venom towards Nadal fans.
Is Djokovic the only one being robbed? Everyone is in the same boat. Nadal is also losing opportunities at winning AO and being the first man to win at least 2 of every Slam. He's also losing chances to win Wimbledon. Nadal's getting up in age so it matters for him as much as it does the other guys.
I think all Slams will go ahead as planned in 2021 but with limited to no crowds.
Ummm...I think you mean Federer is the luckiest man in the world
him too
Right now, we are wondering why Wimbledon was cancelled, when the other majors went ahead without much trouble.
Remember when half the forum was so sure that we weren't going to get anymore tennis the rest of the year? And anyone who thought there was a chance we would was an idiot
bc Wimbledon has pandemic insurance. They don’t need to hold it. also the grass won’t be the same
I suspect that the other majors have insurance, too. The grass at Wimbledon is still there.
