Mount Everest should hang its peak in shame of Safin's peak supremacy.How can people forget the most important theorem of tennis history?
Peak Safin > Anyone/Anything not peak Safin
no no noHow can people forget the most important theorem of tennis history?
Peak Safin > Anyone/Anything not peak Safin
Mount Everest should hang its peak in shame of Safin's peak supremacy.
Peak Safin is dangerous because it disappears at times...like imagine climbing a mountain and halfway through the mountain just disappears and you are falling from 10000 feet up....but then it reappears just as you are about to smash into the ground and you have start over.But somebody forgot to say that K2 is actually more difficult to climb!
Safin's peak is too inconsistent to be regarded as legit.
Even your peak is greater than Safin's peak Rusty and that's saying something!Mount Everest should hang its peak in shame of Safin's peak supremacy.
Peak Djokovic has nothing in his armory to hurt Peak Safin.
When Novak hits returns right at Safin's feet, Safin's just going to handle those perfectly fine?
Aus open is slow, that wont be a problem, it would be a battle of rallies and Safin will outmuscle Djokovic
I agree with @Navdeep Srivastava peak Safin has too much game for Djokovic at his best. It would be like playing Wawrinka at the AO, except with a better forehand and serve. I do think Novak would take at least a set though, his defensive baseline game is very good so he could probably frustrate Marat until he adjusted.
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Djoko played his usual defensive, robotic stuff as well as he could have, but Safin just destroyed him with offensive strokes.
Till this day I still wonder if you were serious or not.
Peak Djokovic will be too much to beat over 5 sets for Safin
The OP states 'Peak vs Peak' . Safin didn't play 2011,2015-16 Djokovic2-0 bud
Both wins in best of 5 and one of those wins was after Djokovic won his 1st slam.
Safin is the only person to have beaten 3 GOATs from 3 different generations in slams after they all won their 1 slam
Sampras - 2000 USO
Federer - 2005 AO
Djokovic - 2008 W
Age is no longer a valid excuse. Nole Fam has made that abundantly clear. Safin with a 100% win rate not just in matches but in sets as well is not a very flattering look for the fresh-poking youngster.Does it matter? Safin has the head to head 2-0.
Age is no longer a valid excuse. Nole Fam has made that abundantly clear. Safin with a 100% win rate not just in matches but in sets as well is not a very flattering look for the fresh-poking youngster.
There is too much to analyse and little data consisting of two matches they played.
The comparison of Safin with Stan is very poor in this case. AO2013 is like the only time Djokovic played good in their Slam meetings.AO2014 was satisfying although he could have done better and the other 3 were subpar,with emphasis on RG2015 and AO2015.
Taking their historical peaks,I would favour Djokovic on clay and grass(despite Safin's big game,his movement would be exposed),about
even on US hardcourt(Safin US 2000 vs Djokovic US 2011).AO has to be superinteresting,any of 08,11 or 13/16 semi Djokovic should be able to handle Safin of 05.
However over a series of matches Safin would have no shot,his injuries and inconsistency would betray him. Djokovic is exactly at the opposit end,superfit and godly consistent.
Wawrinka takes the ball late, which is quite effective against Novak, who thrives on quick, fast paced rallies, rather than facing heavy hitters who push him behind the baseline.Agreed. Stylistically, Safin is much more like Del Potro than he is like Wawrinka, although Safin's movement is better than post-2011 Del Potro by a country mile.
The thing that Wawrinka had that really troubled Djokovic was his ability to open up the court with his heavy one-handed backhand. Safin's backhand is certainly as good as Wawrinka's in general, but I'm not sure it could open up the rallies against Djokovic as well as Wawrinka could.
I don't think, though, that we can write off Wawrinka's wins by saying that Djokovic played poorly. In their last seven Slam matches over a span of almost seven years (January 2013 through September 2019), Wawrinka never failed to win two sets and he led the head-to-head 4-3. The less important event head to head just shows Wawrinka failing to get motivated for minor events. He clearly found a formula that Djokovic consistently struggled to deal with in that period of time.
Def cannot write off Wawrinka’s wins. These hypo threads are always nonsense bc the reality is that if GOAT Player X is playing Really Good Player Y - yea GOAT Player is generally going to win. ESPECIALLY when you take into account the fact that Really Good Player Y oftentimes doesn’t even play well enough to reach the match against GOAT X, whereas GOAT X is incredibly consistent at a super high level and almost always goes deep in tourneys. But in the end, we’re talking elite levels of tennis when Really Great Player Y is on and of course he’ll pull off some upsets. Just glancing thru the list of guys that have upsets Fed, Rafa and Djoker over the years demonstrates this reality. The GOATS are GOATS because they win at an incredible rate and rarely get upset… but they aren’t invulnerableAgreed. Stylistically, Safin is much more like Del Potro than he is like Wawrinka, although Safin's movement is better than post-2011 Del Potro by a country mile.
The thing that Wawrinka had that really troubled Djokovic was his ability to open up the court with his heavy one-handed backhand. Safin's backhand is certainly as good as Wawrinka's in general, but I'm not sure it could open up the rallies against Djokovic as well as Wawrinka could.
Specifically for Djoker V Wawa: AO2013 shows a peaking Wawa facing a great Djoker balling out and it was a toss up. At FO’15 Djoker took a different approach trying to play passive like he doesn’t against most normal players and Wawa summoned the level needed to wreck that approach. USO’16 (??? Not sure which year off the top of my head) Djoker was trash and that loss was seen coming a mile away.
I don't think, though, that we can write off Wawrinka's wins by saying that Djokovic played poorly. In their last seven Slam matches over a span of almost seven years (January 2013 through September 2019), Wawrinka never failed to win two sets and he led the head-to-head 4-3. The less important event head to head just shows Wawrinka failing to get motivated for minor events. He clearly found a formula that Djokovic consistently struggled to deal with in that period of time.