Looking at the current Top 5 in ATP rankings, which grade would you give each in the department of clutchness at slams?

[Bride of Alcaraz]

I was going to say "clutchness" but decided to make it only about "slam clutchness", because there is a big difference (Zverev has non-slam clutchess).
Alcaraz A+
Djokovic A
Medvedev B
Sinner C+
Zverev D+

Alcaraz is undefeated in slam finals and 12-1 in 5-setters.
While Djokovic has the longest list of clutch performances, but has fallen short in enough big matches so I won't give him A+.

Medevev's got a much bigger body of work than Sinner, and maybe Med shouldn't get penalized much for losing slam finals, because most of them were vs Nadal and Djokovic, and the loss vs Sinner was more because of Medvedev playing 6 more hours so his shots lost power in the 3rd Set.
But losing a 2-sets-to-love lead in TWO Australian Open Finals is not something to be proud of, so I will factor that in!

Sinner has only been in ONE slam final but he won it, so hard to be TOO critical of his clutchness, but he only reached the SF stage at THREE slams.... so you could say he lacks clutchness in the QF and R4 of slams (from 2022-23 Sinner lost in 3 QF and 3 R4 and R2 and SF, and in 2023 he lost SF and QF).

 

[GloW]

I was going to say "clutchness" but decided to make it only about "slam clutchness", because there is a big difference (Zverev has non-slam clutchess).
Alcaraz A+
Djokovic A
Medvedev B
Sinner C+
Zverev D+

Alcaraz is undefeated in slam finals and 12-1 in 5-setters.
While Djokovic has the longest list of clutch performances, but has fallen short in enough big matches so I won't give him A+.

Medevev's got a much bigger body of work than Sinner, and maybe Med shouldn't get penalized much for losing slam finals, because most of them were vs Nadal and Djokovic, and the loss vs Sinner was more because of Medvedev playing 6 more hours so his shots lost power in the 3rd Set.
But losing a 2-sets-to-love lead in TWO Australian Open Finals is not something to be proud of, so I will factor that in!

Sinner has only been in ONE slam final but he won it, so hard to be TOO critical of his clutchness, but he only reached the SF stage at THREE slams.... so you could say he lacks clutchness in the QF and R4 of slams (from 2022-23 Sinner lost in 3 QF and 3 R4 and R2 and SF, and in 2023 he lost SF and QF).

zverev very clutch in early rounds though especially on clay

 

[Razer]

I was going to say "clutchness" but decided to make it only about "slam clutchness", because there is a big difference (Zverev has non-slam clutchess).
Alcaraz A+
Djokovic A
Medvedev B
Sinner C+
Zverev D+

If it is over their careers then Djokovic is in a Tier of his own .... S tier
Djokovic smacking winners off Federer's serve staring down defeat at 15-40 is something which nobody can do, that's why he is the God of Toughness.
Alcaraz can be A+ but Djokovic has to have a tier of his own.

 

[NoleFam]

Alcaraz more clutch than Slam king Novak? Stop trolling. When Alcaraz is 37 and still has a 78% win percentage in 5 sets and is winning 85% of his tiebreaks in Slams then come talk to us.

 

[Razer]

Dude stop trolling.

She is a Girl.... Bride of Alcaraz.... Username checks out... being a fan she thinks Alcaraz is at the top, thats natural I guess...

 

[NoleFam]

She is a Girl.... Bride of Alcaraz.... Username checks out... being a fan she thinks Alcaraz is at the top, thats natural I guess...

Yea I realized I didn't really pay close enough attention to the username and corrected that, lol.

 

[reaper]

I was going to say "clutchness" but decided to make it only about "slam clutchness", because there is a big difference (Zverev has non-slam clutchess).
Alcaraz A+
Djokovic A
Medvedev B
Sinner C+
Zverev D+

Alcaraz is undefeated in slam finals and 12-1 in 5-setters.
While Djokovic has the longest list of clutch performances, but has fallen short in enough big matches so I won't give him A+.

Medevev's got a much bigger body of work than Sinner, and maybe Med shouldn't get penalized much for losing slam finals, because most of them were vs Nadal and Djokovic, and the loss vs Sinner was more because of Medvedev playing 6 more hours so his shots lost power in the 3rd Set.
But losing a 2-sets-to-love lead in TWO Australian Open Finals is not something to be proud of, so I will factor that in!

Sinner has only been in ONE slam final but he won it, so hard to be TOO critical of his clutchness, but he only reached the SF stage at THREE slams.... so you could say he lacks clutchness in the QF and R4 of slams (from 2022-23 Sinner lost in 3 QF and 3 R4 and R2 and SF, and in 2023 he lost SF and QF).

Medvedev can't be a B. The one final he won was against Djokovic when he was massively sub par due to fatigue. His two Australian Open final losses were characterised by brilliant attacking tennis for the first two sets, then mental implosions that saw him play passively to go on and lose in five. He changed away from a winning strategy in both matches.

 

[Bride of Alcaraz]

Medvedev can't be a B. The one final he won was against Djokovic when he was massively sub par due to fatigue. His two Australian Open final losses were characterised by brilliant attacking tennis for the first two sets, then mental implosions that saw him play passively to go on and lose in five. He changed away from a winning strategy in both matches.

But I was watching the Medvedev-Sinner AO Final, and I heard Medvedev making a moaning/grunting noise in the 3rd Set that he never made in the first 2 sets.
And a graphic came on the screen showing that all of Med's shots were slower in the 3rd Set, and that in addition to the sudden grunting would indicate exhaustion.
He was probably so excited and hyped by the idea of leading 2-set-to-love that his adrenaline staved off the exhaustion, and then after losing the 2nd Set he lost that adrenaline!

As for the 2022 AO Final vs Nadal, well I saw that too, and Nadal was an unforced error machine in the first 2 sets, so Med leading 2-0 was more about Nadal's level being bad.
Nadal's level improved in the 2nd Set as he started playing aggressively, but he still was making lots of unforced errors on big points which cost him the 2nd Set.
Point is, Med lost the 2022 AO Final mostly because Nadal stopped making so many errors, whereas Med lost 2024 AO Final because of exhaustion that let Sinner back into the match.