Good Lord, stop using "straw man" if you do not know how to properly identify, then apply it to a subject.
Do you
read what you post?
- One, no one said Muguruza was an all time great, so you created a false negative about an imaginary assessment of her, only having a negative outcome. Yes, you are that easy to read.
- Two, you obviously think Murray holds some great(er) position, since you used him as a benchmark comparison to Muguruza. The only proper ATP comparison to her are the young contemporaries, and the arc of their careers, not some 11 year veteran. Ahh, but you would not do that, since she is more successful than all of the "name" young players (mentioned on page 2) by winning a major. Your **** poor comparison would as bad as someone doing the same with Davenport and Simon. There's not a whit of analytically sound footing there...and there cannot be, when one is motivated by unchained agenda.
Yet you expose your agenda by actively
not mentioning the legion of present day ATP failures, and targeting one WTA player who managed to do what the ATP contemporaries have not--win a major. Handicapping her career is anything other than constructive, particularly when (again) you do not go this far (or even name) the male players, or apply the same standard of judgement.
Gee...any wonder why several on this board have called you out on this kind of nonsense?
Federer believing he can still win a major has nothing to do with some belief that he's in a field of nobodies; he does not approach the game that way, as anyone--even a player who will never win a major--can take out a top player (think Jaime Yzaga's win over Sampras at the 1994 USO), and of all people, the top players are aware of that.
Federer is
fighting for every moment at the majors as the door of his career closes.
