Murray is one of the greatest players ever and he was straight-setted in two Australian Open finals (which I’m sure you would similarly have attacked as pathetic) before 2012 happened and his amazing performance against Novak in the semi. There’s a lot of dissonance in your claims. Murray needed to get comfortable in those finals situations.
Murray was also up against a stronger Big 3 than Medevdev, so that's why it took him longer to get comfortable. And yes, Murray is still rightfully criticized for his poor performances in slam finals against the Big 3, but at least he was up against the stronger Big 3 than Med, who is lucky to not be in Murray's position.
Medevdev pushed Rafa to 5 in his first slam final, but now he still needs to get comfortable in finals? What logic is that? Shouldn't he already be comfortable given he already made his first one competitive?
Safin was also able to be rubbish a lot of the time. Stop ascribing everything to one match, it doesn’t make any sense.
Safin still defeated 2 GOATS to win 2 slams. He was also unlucky with injuries, which explains his inconsistencies. But at Med's age he still took down by far the toughest opponent you can have who was also tougher than Meddy's slam final opponents.
Safin also won 5 masters 1000 and was world no.1, so it wasn't just about one match.
Stan gets let off when he peaks later but Medvedev doesn’t because in your opinion “he is there”. I mean that’s just farcical reasoning.
Stan before 2013 never even reached a slam semi or won a big title. Med has done both already, so he has fully blossomed by now. With Stan everything before 2013 is irrelevant because of that. Once he blossomed in 2013, then he started to be taken seriously.
Nadal got slaughtered by Novak in an Aussie Open final, you can take ridiculous conclusions from that too if you want.
Rafa hasn't been a problematic match-up for Novak on HCs for over 7 years now and was also approaching age 33 at that time. Meddy is in his mid 20's and was hyped up as a bigger threat to Novak than Nadal before the tournament even started. Big difference.
But it seems like many of the most amazing tennis players we have seen get denigrated by armchair critics for not being up to their apparently very high standards, it’s honestly farcical.
Yeah, you're right. How silly of us to expect a mid 20's youngster to make a match even remotely close against a mid 30's legend. If these are high expectations, then these guys truly do suck. Have we really reached a point where we shouldn't even be asking them to make it competitive against worse versions of the GOATS?
FYI, Meddy losing in straight to Thiem at the USO last year doesn't help his case either.