Olympics Gold at 37 Years Old >>>>>> 2 Slams at 21 Years Old

[yash_chanda72]

Will Djokovic get the prestigious Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year.

I think he should at least get nominated for his monumental effort in the Olympics.

Thoughts?

 

[Midaso240]

Nope, he shouldn't be nominated for this year. What about everyone else that won Olympic Golds in other sports, that French swimmer got 4 didn't he?

 

[Fabresque]

Messi completed football in 2022 with the World Cup, then received every single individual award imaginable.

Djokovic completed tennis this year. He should be receiving the Laureus Award.

 

[vokazu]

Anyone but Clostebol

 

[Tano]

Will Djokovic get the prestigious Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year.

I think he should at least get nominated for his monumental effort in the Olympics.

Thoughts?

Is it a 'Djoke'?

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Sinner will get it!

 

[JJGUY]

Sinner will get it!

lol I suppose you are joking for a laugh, but a good one!

 

[Sport]

Messi completed football in 2022 with the World Cup, then received every single individual award imaginable.

Djokovic completed tennis this year. He should be receiving the Laureus Award.

He won't receive it when he hasn't won anything besides the Gold and when two guys (Alcaraz and Sinner) have won 2 Slams each this year.

1 Slam alone values more than the OG, imagine 2 Slams. It'd be an insult to objectivity to give the Laureus Award to Novak, when he's underperformed compared to Sinneraz in 2024, the two best players of the year.

 

[jackson vile]

Sure would’ve been nice to have that Wimbledon and U.S. Open, just saying…

 

[urban]

Its a bit curious. When Djoker hadn't won the Olympics and Nadal had, the fans claimed, that the Olympics wer just an hyped exo. Now they see it as the greatest thing next to Seven Up. Its certainly a great win for a nationalistic thinking, sinilar like The Davis Cup, which Italy won last year.. But in terms fo tennis tradition, its raking not up to the slams, by quite a distance..

 

[Hitman]

Disagree OP. What made Olympics special was the 16 year journey and completing the set of big titles, this is all specific to Novak. If lets say Musetti had won it, none of those narratives would come into play.

Alcaraz has had the best year so far up to this point, but if Sinner wins USO and end year number one as I predict he will, he is the best nomination as a tennis player, not Djokovic.

 

[messiahrobins]

Disagree OP. What made Olympics special was the 16 year journey and completing the set of big titles, this is all specific to Novak. If lets say Musetti had won it, none of those narratives would come into play.

Alcaraz has had the best year so far up to this point, but if Sinner wins USO and end year number one as I predict he will, he is the best nomination as a tennis player, not Djokovic.

Regardless if Sinner wins the USO (looks nailed on now) i think Alcaraz has had the better year in terms of that Laureus award. RG-W i think beats AO-USO double plus Alcaraz got silver at the Olympics.
This year for me opens up the argument about the hard court skew of events on tour. Is Sinner better this year than Alcaraz when all his titles are on hard court only?

 

[Hitman]

Regardless if Sinner wins the USO (looks nailed on now) i think Alcaraz has had the better year in terms of that Laureus award. RG-W i think beats AO-USO double plus Alcaraz got silver at the Olympics.
This year for me opens up the argument about the hard court skew of events on tour. Is Sinner better this year than Alcaraz when all his titles are on hard court only?

I guess we will see, but it is one of those two.

Sinner did win Halle

 

[nolefam_2024]

Disagree OP. What made Olympics special was the 16 year journey and completing the set of big titles, this is all specific to Novak. If lets say Musetti had won it, none of those narratives would come into play.

Alcaraz has had the best year so far up to this point, but if Sinner wins USO and end year number one as I predict he will, he is the best nomination as a tennis player, not Djokovic.

And not alcaraz

Guys were so much hyping Carlos while a gem like sinner was ignored.

5 set loses vs Carlos and meddy is not a reason to guillotine the world number 1.

He is 53-5 for the year. And what kind of losses he accured.

IW and RG vs generational rival
MC should never have lost, umpires fault
Wimby vs meddy

Only rublev loss is bad and even that isn't so bad as rublev is top 10 and sinner was coming off a break.

Sinner is having nole 2011-14 competitive tennis. Even if he loses the winner is huge deal. No disappointing losses at least till usopen (which is practically entire season)

 

[nolefam_2024]

Slams is not everything
Yes Carlos won 2 and sinner 1 but he had better year.

 

[yash_chanda72]

Disagree OP. What made Olympics special was the 16 year journey and completing the set of big titles, this is all specific to Novak. If lets say Musetti had won it, none of those narratives would come into play.

Alcaraz has had the best year so far up to this point, but if Sinner wins USO and end year number one as I predict he will, he is the best nomination as a tennis player, not Djokovic.

But at 37 years of age, who had won the Olympics Gold that top beating one of the current best player in the world.

It speaks volume, I guess he would at least get a nomination.

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

But at 37 years of age, who had won the Olympics Gold that top beating one of the current best player in the world.

It speaks volume, I guess he would at least get a nomination.

He did nothing else all year though. He still wouldn’t deserve it regardless.

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Regardless if Sinner wins the USO (looks nailed on now) i think Alcaraz has had the better year in terms of that Laureus award. RG-W i think beats AO-USO double plus Alcaraz got silver at the Olympics.
This year for me opens up the argument about the hard court skew of events on tour. Is Sinner better this year than Alcaraz when all his titles are on hard court only?

If sinner wins us open and ends no1 he had the better year for me. He has been more consistent than alcaraz and acquired more points throughout the year.

 

[Hitman]

But at 37 years of age, who had won the Olympics Gold that top beating one of the current best player in the world.

It speaks volume, I guess he would at least get a nomination.

That is not enough. And I like Novak.

 

[thrust]

Will Djokovic get the prestigious Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year.

I think he should at least get nominated for his monumental effort in the Olympics.

Thoughts?

Nominated but not win, unless he wins the WTF. However, when he already has 24 slams the OG was the greater achievement, for Him.

 

[BGod]

Just leaving this here:

Men's Olympic Singles Tennis Champions by Age

37-Djokovic

29-Murray
26-Agassi
26-Kafelnikov
25-Murray
24-Massu
24-Zverev
24-Mecir
22-Rosset
22-Nadal

 

[canta_Brian]

Olympics was everything to Djokovic, and not just for himself. He wanted a medal for Serbia. Don’t take my word for it, ask Nina Stojanovic

 

[messiahrobins]

If sinner wins us open and ends no1 he had the better year for me. He has been more consistent than alcaraz and acquired more points throughout the year.

Interesting...so circling back to 2017, Nadal v Federer, who had the better year? On social media at the time that was a massive debate.

 

[messiahrobins]

Olympics was everything to Djokovic, and not just for himself. He wanted a medal for Serbia. Don’t take my word for it, ask Nina Stojanovic

Djokovic always had the Olympics as the biggest prize in tennis, he openly hailed Nadal as GOAT in 2011 on court at IW, citing in large part the OG Nadal had won then mentioning sort of as an after thought the other 4 slams.

 

[messiahrobins]

I guess we will see, but it is one of those two.

Sinner did win Halle

Good point, forgot about Halle

 

[Sudacafan]

I never thought about this.

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Interesting...so circling back to 2017, Nadal v Federer, who had the better year? On social media at the time that was a massive debate.

I agree. I guess you can make a case for sinner or alcaraz like you could for Fed or Nadal back then.

 

[big ted]

djokovic getting an award for winning only one tournament this year LOL

 

[Lleytonstation]

I never thought about this.

Why would you?

 

[Tensky1]

No chance Sinner should even be nominated after the doping issue.

 

[Sudacafan]

Why would you?

Because as a TTW user, I am exposed to 100+ threads per day of the most farfetched tennis fantasies.

 

[Sudacafan]

No chance Sinner should even be nominated after the doping issue.

He can be nominated to the next Oscars.

 

[Lleytonstation]

Because as a TTW user, I am exposed to 100+ threads per day of the most farfetched tennis fantasies.

Thinking about opening a rehab centre for ttw users who have been banned or need to log off.

Thinking we could have interventions for each other.

 

[Hawks9451]

Jack Draper should get it for conceding that point he bounced into the asphalt playing against Felix. Really cool of him to give up such an important point, even considering the replay made it fairly obvious.

 

[Sudacafan]

He won't receive it when he hasn't won anything besides the Gold and when two guys (Alcaraz and Sinner) have won 2 Slams each this year.

1 Slam alone values more than the OG, imagine 2 Slams. It'd be an insult to objectivity to give the Laureus Award to Novak, when he's underperformed compared to Sinneraz in 2024, the two best players of the year.

Olympic Gold = 16 slams

 

[Olli Jokinen]

Move on.

 

[messiahrobins]

I agree. I guess you can make a case for sinner or alcaraz like you could for Fed or Nadal back then.

Got to have equal events on the 3 surfaces for me. This year has highlighted perhaps more than any season

 

[Djokovic_is_the_best#1]

Got to have equal events on the 3 surfaces for me. This year has highlighted perhaps more than any season

You do have a point here. As Alcaraz had did it on 2 different surfaces compared to sinner on 1. However, we know all HC tournament plays a bit different despite the same surface.

I can see why some would still rate Alcaraz above but for me Sinner has still be more consistent throughout the whole year winning more points and titles. It open to interpretation and preference though.

 

[Sudacafan]

Olympic Gold at 22 years old > ?

 

[messiahrobins]

You do have a point here. As Alcaraz had did it on 2 different surfaces compared to sinner on 1. However, we know all HC tournament plays a bit different despite the same surface.

I can see why some would still rate Alcaraz above but for me Sinner has still be more consistent throughout the whole year winning more points and titles. It open to interpretation and preference though.

This is also the other issue now. How much extra value do the Majors and Olympics get over other events.
It is really interesting actually and more of a neutral discussion as it doesnt involve the big 3. Like you, i can see it both ways. I plump for Alcaraz but i see your point about Sinner.