JaoSousa
Hall of Fame
That's a solid 13 years of watching...
How many slams can Medvedev win?
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Nadalgaenger
G.O.A.T.
Agree. Zverev, I fear, has peaked. And his baseline game, especially FH, not good enough to compensate for the lack of defense. Medvedev is just a better tennis player. I say this as a guy that has been a Zverev fan since I saw him up close at IW in 2016.
Beckerserve
Hall of Fame
0. He is a mentally weak player with poor technique in too many areas who cannot cope with b05 set format.
Best he can achieve is a few m1000s and a Wtf.
Beckerserve
Hall of Fame
Nadal loss of footspeed is a misnomer. He rarely shows his foot speed and looks sluggish but he still has it as we saw in FO final. He will only really turn the burners on in the biggest matches.
Start da Game
Hall of Fame
unfortunately zero if he does not change his mindset.........he said that he prefers best of 3 and the very moment i lost whatever good impression i had of him........
Nadalgaenger
G.O.A.T.
He pushed Rafa pretty hard at USO. He was dominant at this year's USO until he ran into ThiemTrain!
Nadalgaenger
G.O.A.T.
Exactly! Everything I write is for posterity!
Beckerserve
Hall of Fame
Nadal choked badly in that USO final. Ive watched it 32 times and every time i cannot believe Nadal won that.
Third Serve
G.O.A.T.
Hope that figure is an exaggeration lol
Beckerserve
Hall of Fame
Lockdown my excuse haha. (Seriously watched it in full about 3 time)
cork_screw
Hall of Fame
Zverev even in the conversation? Really? This guy is so loose on his consistency. His forehands fly long very often, he's very flighty on his groundstrokes. Often he hits unforced errors when not being put in pressured situations. Normally you make unforced errors when stretched out wide or when you have very heavy balls. But Zverev just throws balls long and in the net from basic rally balls. When I see this and how much he double faults, if I was part of his team I would hire two sports psychologists. I would hire a strictly tennis sports psychologist and then an all around general sports psychologist and really strengthen my mental game. I think he gets in his head a lot. Especially with the double faults.
I honestly thought Zverev would be better than what he's shown himself to be. Especially when he was coming in on the scene and he was beating nadal with his solid backhand. But in recent times, he's really shown some massive holes and vulnerabilities in just how inconsistently he plays.
I honestly thought Zverev would be better than what he's shown himself to be. Especially when he was coming in on the scene and he was beating nadal with his solid backhand. But in recent times, he's really shown some massive holes and vulnerabilities in just how inconsistently he plays.
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cork_screw
Hall of Fame
I think Nadal's best hard court year was 2013. He made the hard courts look like clay. His service was so heavy and big back then. That was one difference that changed his hard court game. Not sure why he reverted back to his old serve. I think he said it was less consistent. But he's no longer the wall on hard court like he used to be. Still, I think it's incredible when anyone can beat nadal on hard court because his game is unique in the way that you have so much top spin curving out to your backhand side. It would be nice to see him try to exploit that again like he used to do. But nowadays I can definitely see how he's trying to preserve his body to play longer into his career than to play hot and heavy and burn out in just a few more years. I actually see the same in Lebron James and how he's been conserving his body for the future.
Gazelle
Legend
Ye, that one hour he plays at RG in a year really sks the life out of him.
BlueB
Legend
All of them!
Nadalgaenger
G.O.A.T.
This guy is going to CLEAN UP at AO and USO in the next five years. Who is going to stop him?
aditya123
Hall of Fame
Many can stop him. He isn't a lock yet.
Nadalgaenger
G.O.A.T.
He was basically a tennis machine at the USO before Thiem match. That match was much closer than score.
Zverev and Djokovic had no answers agains
Another correct prediction!
aditya123
Hall of Fame
He fought Rafa in USO but that was mainly because Rafa let him into the match. The Aus open is always a bit different, I don't see him dominating matches in hot sun at Aus open !!! He is consistent at the Uso, we can expect a few slams from him there. Also as @MeatTornado pointed out, once he starts losing he goes into a slump which doesn't fit well for him
Nadalgaenger
G.O.A.T.
If I were Medvedev I would work really hard on two things:
Core strength (higher a top level physio so that he can look like Coric
Net play
If Medvedev actually had a net game he'd be well-nigh unstoppable on HC.
HazBeen18
Rookie
Until he wins a BO5 slam, who can say? Right now, I still think that Thiem has the better shot at the next few hard-court slams. However, Meddy looks better to me physically than he did just a year ago. He played through three very physical matches against Rafa, Novak, and Thiem and didn't look nearly as gassed as the three of them did.