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It's absolutely laughable how the online tennis world made a complete 180 degree transformation after the US Open, from constantly undercutting and diminishing Nadal's achievements, to immediately proclaiming him the greatest ever.
Let's do something I like to call "analysis" rather than lap up the ceaseless exaltations of prisoner-of-the-present John McEnroe and the testosterone-heavy vocal excretions of female gym teacher qua overbearing colour commentator Mary Carillo.
To be the "greatest of all time" means one must be the "greatest" of "every time", not just one's own time. Nadal is a product of modern fitness, modern training, modern medicine, state-of-the-art racquet and string technology, personally slowed down courts, fluffed up balls and lax enforcement of tennis rules and regulations. Take one of those things away from Nadal's development, and he doesn't even make the ATP Tour.
Nadal offers nothing unique to the world of tennis. He's the prototype or model for the assembly line tennis player. Remove the conditions designed and tailored to his benefit, and he would be malfunctional. But these conditions have only been in place from 2005 or so to the present, while tennis as an international sport has been played since the late 19th century!
Having been born into any other period in men's tennis history, Nadal would not have even been able to make clean contact with the ball. Because he would have to use a minuscule-headed wood racquet. He wouldn't even know how to hold that kind of a racquet properly. His tiny hands wouldn't have been able to get all the way around a 5'' grip. Can you imagine him flailing at a low-bouncing, fuzz-free lightweight tennis ball?
For most of tennis history, Nadal would have suffered heat stroke as he would have had to play in long sleeves, a vest and pants, and play interminable sets without tiebreakers.
Nadal would have been diqualified after just a few games per match for violating the rules on time between serves and on changeovers.
Nadal would have been rendered helpless as Rosewall's 80 MPH slices skidded by him on a lightning fast surface. See Darcis at Wimbledon and Federer at WTF for further evidence.
And finally, Nadal would have already undergone knee replacement surgery with the much heavier schedule, longer year and unavailability of inflammation-relieving injections.
No, Nadal cannot be considered the greatest of all time given that the game was essentially altered so he could win it, only possible with modern technology and circumstances. The fact that people are already comparing him with Pete Sampras only shows how badly the empty-headed sheep/fans have been suckered and betrayed by the tennis establishment. Nadal should not be despised. He is merely the clown in P.T. Barnum's modern tennis circus.
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Let's do something I like to call "analysis" rather than lap up the ceaseless exaltations of prisoner-of-the-present John McEnroe and the testosterone-heavy vocal excretions of female gym teacher qua overbearing colour commentator Mary Carillo.
To be the "greatest of all time" means one must be the "greatest" of "every time", not just one's own time. Nadal is a product of modern fitness, modern training, modern medicine, state-of-the-art racquet and string technology, personally slowed down courts, fluffed up balls and lax enforcement of tennis rules and regulations. Take one of those things away from Nadal's development, and he doesn't even make the ATP Tour.
Nadal offers nothing unique to the world of tennis. He's the prototype or model for the assembly line tennis player. Remove the conditions designed and tailored to his benefit, and he would be malfunctional. But these conditions have only been in place from 2005 or so to the present, while tennis as an international sport has been played since the late 19th century!
Having been born into any other period in men's tennis history, Nadal would not have even been able to make clean contact with the ball. Because he would have to use a minuscule-headed wood racquet. He wouldn't even know how to hold that kind of a racquet properly. His tiny hands wouldn't have been able to get all the way around a 5'' grip. Can you imagine him flailing at a low-bouncing, fuzz-free lightweight tennis ball?
For most of tennis history, Nadal would have suffered heat stroke as he would have had to play in long sleeves, a vest and pants, and play interminable sets without tiebreakers.
Nadal would have been diqualified after just a few games per match for violating the rules on time between serves and on changeovers.
Nadal would have been rendered helpless as Rosewall's 80 MPH slices skidded by him on a lightning fast surface. See Darcis at Wimbledon and Federer at WTF for further evidence.
And finally, Nadal would have already undergone knee replacement surgery with the much heavier schedule, longer year and unavailability of inflammation-relieving injections.
No, Nadal cannot be considered the greatest of all time given that the game was essentially altered so he could win it, only possible with modern technology and circumstances. The fact that people are already comparing him with Pete Sampras only shows how badly the empty-headed sheep/fans have been suckered and betrayed by the tennis establishment. Nadal should not be despised. He is merely the clown in P.T. Barnum's modern tennis circus.
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