65/79 so far!!

[mahatma]

That’s the number of grand slams big 3 have won out of all possible slams since Wimbledon 2003! That’s 82% hit rate of winning slams over a decade. It may well become 66/80 post this Wimbledon. That’s about 2 decades of utter dominance over a sport. And all the remarks of weak era etc are just plain salty remarks. Big 3 have been leaps and bounds above the competition.

Say whatever about the new gen - Alcaraz, Rune, Sinner etc - I just don’t see any bunch of 2/3 players having such stronghold over the sport for such a long period.

What we have been witnessing is once in a lifetime. Sorry but the Alcaraz/Rune/Sinner/next gen fans what you will witness will always be subpar to what we have already seen.

Views?

 

[NoleFam]

It's insane honestly and no I don't see it being repeated, at least not while we are alive. You need 3 exceptional players with about equal talent, drive and hunger for records for something like this to happen.

 

[sureshs]

Laver and a few others were like that at one time

 

[Djokodalerer31]

Thats TWO almost full decades my man, not "over a decade" LOL

 

[RelentlessAttack]

That’s the number of grand slams big 3 have won out of all possible slams since Wimbledon 2003! That’s 82% hit rate of winning slams over a decade. It may well become 66/80 post this Wimbledon. That’s about 2 decades of utter dominance over a sport. And all the remarks of weak era etc are just plain salty remarks. Big 3 have been leaps and bounds above the competition.

Say whatever about the new gen - Alcaraz, Rune, Sinner etc - I just don’t see any bunch of 2/3 players having such stronghold over the sport for such a long period.

What we have been witnessing is once in a lifetime. Sorry but the Alcaraz/Rune/Sinner/next gen fans what you will witness will always be subpar to what we have already seen.

Views?

Weak era discussion comes from the fact that some guys were able to dent these guys in their primes or closer to it (eg Safin, Stan, Delpo, Cilic, Murray). No player after the Delpo/Cilic year which was still part of the same Gen was able to rival their quality for even a short run. Lost gen and next gen spent their time losing to 2nd and 3rd tier players of the golden Gen

 

[mahatma]

No era can be weak for 20 years! Lets appreciate the quality on display and stop hiding behind agendas

 

[No_Kwan_Do]

It's remarkable that there are still no active multi-slam winners on the tour other than Djokovic, Nadal, Murray and Wawrinka.

It's also remarkable that no active players other than Djokovic, Nadal and Wawrinka have won the AO.

No active players other than Nadal, Djokovic and Wawrinka have won the French.

No active players other than Nadal, Djokovic and Murray have won Wimbledon.

 

[Hitman]

Fedalovic truly owned this sport in a way no other sport has been owned.

Check this out, between them

18 AO
18 RG
17 W
12 USO
12 YEC
3 OGM
908 weeks at number one
17 YE1
13 IW
10 Miami
13 MC
14 Madrid/Hamburg
16 Rome
11 Canada
10 Cincinnati
7 Shanghai
7 Paris
7 Davis Cup

These three conquered the sport in a way which we will never see in our lifetimes. One of them can still add to these numbers, potentially so can one other.

 

[RelentlessAttack]

No era can be weak for 20 years! Lets appreciate the quality on display and stop hiding behind agendas

20 years? We’re talking about the Dimitrov cohort on not being as good as previous cohorts.

 

[Sampras-Bruguera 1993]

Lack of competition LOL. 3 man tour for 20 years. Then people wonder why I was always a proponent of sending conditions back to the 1990's. Because of stuff like this. We could have just let the 3 guys duke it out since 2006 and ban everyone else. That would have sufficed

 

[Technology Ruined Tennis]

Joker's loss to Nishi might be the worst of the Big 3 era.

 

[mahatma]

Fedalovic truly owned this sport in a way no other sport has been owned.

Check this out, between them

18 AO
18 RG
17 W
12 USO
12 YEC
3 OGM
908 weeks at number one
17 YE1
13 IW
10 Miami
13 MC
14 Madrid/Hamburg
16 Rome
11 Canada
10 Cincinnati
7 Shanghai
7 Paris
7 Davis Cup

These three conquered the sport in a way which we will never see in our lifetimes. One of them can still add to these numbers, potentially so can one other.

Sport has been either big 3 or nothing since Wimbledon ‘03. It’s the only truth

 

[JasonZ]

Joker's loss to Nishi might be the worst of the Big 3 era.

it is, and i thought this loss and his losses at usa 2012 and 2013 would be the main reason why djokovic would not get the slam record. i was wrong.

 

[AgassiSuperSlam11]

Evert/Martina/Graf did 58 out of 103 between 1974-1999 which is less but still impressive.

 

[SonnyT]

Joker's loss to Nishi might be the worst of the Big 3 era.

Nadal's loss to Darcis, D Brown or Rosol! Take your pick.

Or the 3 worst losses of B3 era!

 

[duaneeo]

Roddick, Gaudio, Safin, Del Potro
Murray, Murray, Wawrinka, Cilic, Wawrinka, Murray, Wawrinka
Thiem, Medvedev, Alcaraz

 

[SonnyT]

Congrats to Roger and Rafa, even as you both are inactive, you live thru Big 3 and Novak.

Novak's glory is your glory, too!

 

[weakera]

It's insane honestly and no I don't see it being repeated, at least not while we are alive. You need 3 exceptional players with about equal talent, drive and hunger for records for something like this to happen.

What if you had just two exceptional players at once, could you see them win something like 55/75? I can imagine that.

 

[DSH]

Well, continuing with mythology, they are primordial gods and the rest are just the common people.

 

[NoleFam]

What if you had just two exceptional players at once, could you see them win something like 55/75? I can imagine that.

That's 27 and 28 Slams so probably not. Djokovic is 36 and he just reached 23. Nadal reached 22 at 36 and Federer reached 20 at 36.

 

[weakera]

That's 27 and 28 Slams so probably not. Djokovic is 36 and he just reached 23. Nadal reached 22 at 36 and Federer reached 20 at 36.

Why isn't 27 achievable? I could easily see someone dominant running roughshod over a weak tour.

 

[NoleFam]

Why isn't 27 achievable? I could easily see someone dominant running roughshod over a weak tour.

I can't. If it took the big 3 that long to reach 20-23, I don't see anyone else surpassing that by 36.

 

[weakera]

I can't. If it took the big 3 that long to reach 20-23, I don't see anyone else surpassing that by 36.

But just imagine if it was just a big two, or big one? Why was it more likely that three guys like that play at the same time than one or two?

 

[SonnyT]

If Djokovic reaches CYGS, might he contemplate retirement? There's nothing to top that! Even if Rafa comes back, the most he could is to win RG.