That's true about the wind, but here the obvious factor is that he played a night match on both of the two days prior to this final. He was inexplicably poor in the 2016 final, too, because of short turnaround.
[By the way, I've always thought it was a real shame about the wind in 2012, after he played so well in the quarter-final against Del Potro - one of his best-ever US Open performances. In fact, I think it might be his best-ever US Open match].
Look, it could be that Djokovic is going to age rapidly in 2019. But this one result is very weak evidence that that is likely, right? And that's all I was responding to from the previous poster.
That's not really an excuse for a ~25 year old Djokovic - playing 3 sets (short ones at that)
Djoko was losing badly to ferrer in windy conditions. Then next day conditions calmed down and he went handily.
Djoko is very agile/flexible, but footwork is not the greatest. Hence the struggling in windy conditions. Don't think its a shame at all.
Murray had a much much tougher SF than djoko in 2016 YEC.
He was just more determined and played a clearly better match than djoko did in 2016 final.
Djoko just didn't have the confidence/consistency he had earlier in the 2nd half of 2016. And Murray took it to him.
For this year, its not just this one result though -- Djoko lost to Khachanov in the Paris final just a couple of weeks before.
Of course its not conclusive , but it sure as hell shuts up the OMG, Djoko is as good as he was before, will win the CYGS in 2019 bandwagon.
