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As always the 4>2 Slam count is a children's argument, especially with Hewitt's YE achievement so let's take a deep dive.
Hewitt Slam Finals:
Sampras straight sets win
Nalbandian straight sets win
Federer straight set loss
Safin 4 set loss
Alcaraz Slam Finals:
straight sets win against Novak, Ruud
5 set wins against Zverev, Novak
For context of course Sampras and Novak were past their primes (Novak much older, 36-37) and Sampras was physically exhausted with 1 day rest. So what about the runs to?
Hewitt
Roddick-Kafelnikov
Schalken-Henman
Haas-Joachim Johansson
Nalbandian-Roddick
Many members here probably don't know about Joachim Johansson but he was a very promising server who had a career ending injury not long after that USO run loss to Hewitt. And of course Nalbandian was great when he was playing deep. Kafelnikov was a 2 time and world #1 as a reminder. The weakest here would absolutely be Schalken and then Henman.
Alcaraz
Sinner-Tiafoe
Rune-Medvedev
Tsitsipas-Sinner
Paul-Medvedev
Obviously with Alcaraz you have unknown in terms of how those players will turn out. Paul and Tiafoe are unlikely to ever make a Slam Final. Tsitsipas and Rune currently have 0 Slams, Sinner and Medvedev have 1 with Medvedev being a legendary choker in finals.
***Hewitt has 80>32 weeks at #1 and 2 YEs with 2 WTFs to 1 and 0 against Alacaraz. In this situation context has to also be considered as many of Alcaraz weeks and YE was due to Covid regulations blocking Djokovic's participation which includes Carlos first Slam at the 2022 USO. This I think is the biggest ON PAPER advantage for Hewitt. Clearly more dominance in the rankings and legitimate YEs.
Masters records largely irrelevant given time periods.
In terms of what if scenarios, Hewitt's losses in 2 Finals were to legend status Safin and Federer along with two semifinal losses in 05 to Federer as well. Alcaraz semifinal losses were to 36 year old Djokovic at the French and Medvedev, I think objectively not as "good" of losses.
I largely have Hewitt slightly ahead due to context, weeks at #1 and YEs. Fully expect Alcaraz to surpass him in the near future and will almost certainly get first legitimate YE this year and maybe WTF. Although WTF was B05 for Hewitt on carpet.
Hewitt Slam Finals:
Sampras straight sets win
Nalbandian straight sets win
Federer straight set loss
Safin 4 set loss
Alcaraz Slam Finals:
straight sets win against Novak, Ruud
5 set wins against Zverev, Novak
For context of course Sampras and Novak were past their primes (Novak much older, 36-37) and Sampras was physically exhausted with 1 day rest. So what about the runs to?
Hewitt
Roddick-Kafelnikov
Schalken-Henman
Haas-Joachim Johansson
Nalbandian-Roddick
Many members here probably don't know about Joachim Johansson but he was a very promising server who had a career ending injury not long after that USO run loss to Hewitt. And of course Nalbandian was great when he was playing deep. Kafelnikov was a 2 time and world #1 as a reminder. The weakest here would absolutely be Schalken and then Henman.
Alcaraz
Sinner-Tiafoe
Rune-Medvedev
Tsitsipas-Sinner
Paul-Medvedev
Obviously with Alcaraz you have unknown in terms of how those players will turn out. Paul and Tiafoe are unlikely to ever make a Slam Final. Tsitsipas and Rune currently have 0 Slams, Sinner and Medvedev have 1 with Medvedev being a legendary choker in finals.
***Hewitt has 80>32 weeks at #1 and 2 YEs with 2 WTFs to 1 and 0 against Alacaraz. In this situation context has to also be considered as many of Alcaraz weeks and YE was due to Covid regulations blocking Djokovic's participation which includes Carlos first Slam at the 2022 USO. This I think is the biggest ON PAPER advantage for Hewitt. Clearly more dominance in the rankings and legitimate YEs.
Masters records largely irrelevant given time periods.
In terms of what if scenarios, Hewitt's losses in 2 Finals were to legend status Safin and Federer along with two semifinal losses in 05 to Federer as well. Alcaraz semifinal losses were to 36 year old Djokovic at the French and Medvedev, I think objectively not as "good" of losses.
I largely have Hewitt slightly ahead due to context, weeks at #1 and YEs. Fully expect Alcaraz to surpass him in the near future and will almost certainly get first legitimate YE this year and maybe WTF. Although WTF was B05 for Hewitt on carpet.
