Big 3 and the matches that "slipped away"

[mike danny]

Wimbledon 2019 for Federer is the ultimate disappointment, all Big 3 combined wasted opportunities, this was the worst. Two match points, literally a bump return by Novak on MP #2. One fiery groundstroke to finish it, inside out or DTL. He’d been painting the lines all match. Instead, he hits a passive forehand, goes in behind it, and gets passed. And after that....

I mean he genuinely had it, he’d been hitting amazing ground strokes all match, just one more would do it, but nerves can be a funny thing. Being the GOAT of Wimbledon and losing 3 times in the final to one of your greatest rivals honestly has to hurt.

He is not the GOAT of Wimb. There is no such thing.

 

[Hitman]

It's up there with Roddick's 2009 WImbledon, although he never won the title there.

I'd probably put it above Roddick by a little, considering it was multiple CP on his own serve. Roddick's is up there for sure though, I do think had he made that volley, he would have won Wimbledon that year.

 

[Deleted member 758560]

He did not choke. Peak 2009 Del Potro was a forehand monster that had destroyed Soderling and Nadal back to back in 3 sets at the USO.

he destroyed not soderling but cilic in a QF (4 sets instead of 3), soderling was defeated by federer in 4 sets in the USO 2009 edition