Aabye5
G.O.A.T.
No, for me Djokovic is the GOAT as he is by far the most successful player in history.
I was simply analyzing your thinking.
If you say that Nadal in the hard outdoor version is superior to Djokovic in the clay version, leveraging the total number of slams on those surfaces, i.e. 6>3, ignoring that the slams on hard outdoors are double those on clay, then for consistency's sake you should also say that Nadal is not the best single-court player in history, given that on clay he achieved the same slams that Djokovic achieved on hard outdoor.
I, on the other hand, think that Djokovic is the GOAT overall, and Nadal is the GOAT on a single surface.
I'm sorry but the tennis calendar is structured in the way that allowed Djokovic to be the most successful player in history, the structure of two slams on hard outdoors, one on clay and one on grass, existed long before the big three.
The best is the one who managed to adapt best.
Regarding the thread issue.
If we analyze the skill on individual surfaces we must also take into account the distribution of tournaments, otherwise we could say that Federer himself was better on hard outdoor than on grass given that on hard outdoor he won 11 slams in total while on grass "only " 8.
While it is well known that Federer expressed his best especially on grass.
If he won more slams on hard outdoors it is precisely because there are twice as many chances, and not because he was better on hard outdoors than on grass.
But you can't ignore that fact. If there were literally more chances for Rafa to win on clay, we would likely be having a very different conversation.