Grand slam finals reached without facing a top 10 player.

[Nadal_King]

Grand Slam finals reached without facing a top-10 player:

Roger Federer( 5) - 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 French Open, 2008 Wimbledon, 2009 Wimbledon, and 2018 Australian Open.

Rafael Nadal(7)- 2006 Wimbledon, 2008 Wimbledon, 2010 French Open, 2017 US Open, 2019 Australian Open, 2019 US Open, and 2020 French Open.

Novak Djokovic(8) - 2007 US Open, 2011 Wimbledon, 2014 Wimbledon, 2016 US Open, 2018 US Open, 2019 Wimbledon, 2021 Wimbledon, and 2022 Wimbledon

Djokovic’s 5 have come at Wimbledon which just shows how easy he has had it there, people bring up Rafa Us open draws but Djokovic’s Wimbledon ones are no less easier

 

[mahatma]

So reaching finals counts now. Cool Djokovic GOAT

 

[maratha_warrior]

Nadal hasn't reached Wimbledon Final in 12 years .

So Nadal doesn't reach semis-Finals of Wimbledon to make sure Novak doesn't meet any Top 10 player on the way to finals or in finals ??

Djokovic is stupid to reach semis & finals of French Open almost every year and make draws difficult for Rafa (only on paper) .

Big brains Rafa

 

[socallefty]

But, many of those finals had tough opponents - Federer faced a Big 3 player in 3 out of 5 finals, Nadal in 4 out of 7 and Djokovic in 4 out of 8 (two others with Wawrinka and DelPo).

 

[Marco Rotim]

Grand Slam finals reached without facing a top-10 player:

Roger Federer( 5) - 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 French Open, 2008 Wimbledon, 2009 Wimbledon, and 2018 Australian Open.

Rafael Nadal(7)- 2006 Wimbledon, 2008 Wimbledon, 2010 French Open, 2017 US Open, 2019 Australian Open, 2019 US Open, and 2020 French Open.

Novak Djokovic(8) - 2007 US Open, 2011 Wimbledon, 2014 Wimbledon, 2016 US Open, 2018 US Open, 2019 Wimbledon, 2021 Wimbledon, and 2022 Wimbledon

Djokovic’s 5 have come at Wimbledon which just shows how easy he has had it there, people bring up Rafa Us open draws but Djokovic’s Wimbledon ones are no less easier

Slams won without meeting a Top 3 player:

Federer: 10
Nadal: 4
Djokovic: 3

Slams won by beating at least 1 Top 4 seeded player.

Djokovic - 19
Nadal - 18
Federer - 11

 

[InsideOut900]

Grand Slam finals reached without facing a top-10 player:

Roger Federer( 5) - 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 French Open, 2008 Wimbledon, 2009 Wimbledon, and 2018 Australian Open.

Rafael Nadal(7)- 2006 Wimbledon, 2008 Wimbledon, 2010 French Open, 2017 US Open, 2019 Australian Open, 2019 US Open, and 2020 French Open.

Novak Djokovic(8) - 2007 US Open, 2011 Wimbledon, 2014 Wimbledon, 2016 US Open, 2018 US Open, 2019 Wimbledon, 2021 Wimbledon, and 2022 Wimbledon

Djokovic’s 5 have come at Wimbledon which just shows how easy he has had it there

He faced #12 seed Tsonga at Wimb 11 who took Fed out and #11 Dimitrov at Wimb 14, who was playing one of the Slams of his life.

Saying the Wimb 14 draw in particular was easy is utter bs. Rankings don't make the strength of opposition anyway, but especially not for this one.

Also technically, Sinner and Norrie were top 10 seeds, but it was a pretty bad draw, gotta admit

people bring up Rafa Us open draws but Djokovic’s Wimbledon ones are no less easier

Lol, Novak's Wimb 11, 14, 15 draws were considerably deeper than any of Nadal's USO draws. He had at least 2 good opponents in each.

For a single match, Wimb 18 Nadal might have also been better than USO 10/13 Djoker and definitely better than 19 Med, so Wimb 18 isn't the worst either.

2019 Fed/2022 Nick no worse than anyone Nadal faced in 2017/2019

 

[mahatma]

Grand Slam finals reached without facing a top-10 player:

Roger Federer( 5) - 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 French Open, 2008 Wimbledon, 2009 Wimbledon, and 2018 Australian Open.

Rafael Nadal(7)- 2006 Wimbledon, 2008 Wimbledon, 2010 French Open, 2017 US Open, 2019 Australian Open, 2019 US Open, and 2020 French Open.

Novak Djokovic(8) - 2007 US Open, 2011 Wimbledon, 2014 Wimbledon, 2016 US Open, 2018 US Open, 2019 Wimbledon, 2021 Wimbledon, and 2022 Wimbledon

Djokovic’s 5 have come at Wimbledon which just shows how easy he has had it there, people bring up Rafa Us open draws but Djokovic’s Wimbledon ones are no less easier

So seedings matter. Weeks at #1 matter. Nice!

 

[Russeljones]

We're in dangerous waters now. We might get to a point where losing before reaching a final is actually worse than losing in the final. Do we really want to test that?

 

[Spencer Gore]

Slams won without meeting a Top 3 player:

Federer: 10
Nadal: 4
Djokovic: 3

Slams won by beating at least 1 Top 4 seeded player.

Djokovic - 19
Nadal - 18
Federer - 11

This seems a much more relevant statistic.

 

[mahatma]

We're in dangerous waters now. We might get to a point where losing before reaching a final is actually worse than losing in the final. Do we really want to test that?

You meant better than? Losing in the finals is better than losing before, it's quite straight forward I believe.

 

[ibbi]

2 Australian Opens
3 Roland Garros
5 US Opens
10 Wimbledons

Tells you all you need to know about the field on grass, really. Not much else to it.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

However, once you throw the final opponent in, Nadal and Djokovic's number comes down dramatically, Federer not so much... you know because of the joke era and when it ended not being able to overcome his greatest rivals more often than not when it mattered.

 

[Russeljones]

You meant better than? Losing in the finals is better than losing before, it's quite straight forward I believe.

Not how TTW logic works.