You need to make up your mind, even in this very thread you are flip flopping. So are you by your own definition, coping?
I am not coping. When a member throws CIE about any discussion that's definitely coping. .
But yes CIE exists. If I had to say when I think it's post IW. It was inflation of highest order. See Federer was far from having easy matches in his wins in Miami. It was all good.
Then this Nadal guy goes to his favorite surface and with Nole unfit, everyone literally rolls over. Nadal was looking like done pre 2017.
Then Federer wins Wimbledon without dropping a set. His opponent Cilic CRIES. It was very embarrassing.
Then Nadal wins USOpen. He had not been in USO semis since 2014. And he played absolutely no top 20 players I think. Need to check what Anderson rank was. That is a disaster.
Then ATP finals we saw these guys like Goffin and Dimitrov reaching final. I don't care how big a Goffin fan you were, you must have felt sad for the state of tennis.
Then we have a routine AO for fed. What opponents he faced? Unseeded and 100+ kids.
Then we have another IW Miami and thankfully someone is able to stop fed. But wait. It's clay time again and that means we are starting over the same thing we saw since 2005. It's too tiring now. But there is no Djokovic so we can't see Nadal even challenged.
It was finally Wimbledon when we saw a real good big tournament. You have to agree it was good.
Since Nole came back, from MC 2017 to RG 2018, I thought ATP was going to go WTA way. It was really bad.
Even after 2018 it was not better for sometime. It was up and down for a long time until Madrid 2022.
Tennis has been great since Madrid 2022. If people are complaining now it's because they always will. We survived 2017 year, we survived covid pandemic era and finally we got Alcaraz in Madrid 2022 taking down Nadal Djokovic and Zverev.
