Arguement as to why Fed v Rafa H2H proves Fed is GOAT

[christos_liaskos]

There seem to be two main arguements as to why Fed should not be regarded as the GOAT. 1, He has a losing H2H v his main rival and 2, He played in a weak era.

Those two arguements right there are contraditictions of one another. People argue that Fed won his 16 slams, spent so much time at no1 and dominated the sport because of a weak era, something that detracts from these achievements. Yet then, as soon as someone appears who does have a good record over Fed (Rafa) that then is held against him. I'm sure if Fed had dominated Rafa too in their H2H then people would have held that against Fed as even more proof of a weak era and no real competition.

So what was Fed supposed to do?

Not saying this is the definitive way of proving 'anyone' is GOAT, it's just another approach to the arguement which I'm not sure I've come across before.

 

[Deleted member 3771]

There seem to be two main arguements as to why Fed should not be regarded as the GOAT. 1, He has a losing H2H v his main rival and 2, He played in a weak era.

Those two arguements right there are contraditictions of one another. People argue that Fed won his 16 slams, spent so much time at no1 and dominated the sport because of a weak era, something that detracts from these achievements. Yet then, as soon as someone appears who does have a good record over Fed (Rafa) that then is held against him. I'm sure if Fed had dominated Rafa too in their H2H then people would have held that against Fed as even more proof of a weak era and no real competition.

So what was Fed supposed to do?

Not saying this is the definitive way of proving 'anyone' is GOAT, it's just another approach to the arguement which I'm not sure I've come across before.

The debate now is about who will be the best of this era, nevermind the goat debate. Since Fed and Nadal are so close, its silly to try to argue for any of them as goat until they retire and one of them establishes themselves as the best of this era first.

I think the main reasoning for Nadal being greater currently is that Nadal has won 10 slams out of 28(35% strike rate) compared to Fed's 16 out of 48(33% strike rate). Final conclusion to be reached when they retire. The current 6-2 slam final dominance just strongly supports that Nadal is greater.