Thanks for replying - an interesting summary. I take it that your point is that the first slam won by Carlos -USO 2022- was less of an achievement than Jannik's win of the AO. I disagree. In his first GS win, Carlos beat a former GS winner in Cilic, Jannik who had match points, an inform Tiafoe on home soil, and the player vying for the number 1 spot- Ruud. Carlos played 3 consecutive 5 setters and despite the obvious impact of such effort, he clinched the final in 4 sets. And of course the key fact - Carlos was only 19 years old, winning a GS at the first point of asking. And with it, in one fell swoop, he achieved the number 1 ranking. Top of top drawer stuff.
Of course the hype for Carlos was high, because he achieved what none of his similar age peers could achieve in the same field that you describe. Trying to begrudge him the worth of his win is unfortunate.
Jannik was simply outstanding at the AO, and also won it at the first point of asking. Superb stuff. But he played an off-form Novak and an exhausted Daniil in the SF/ F. Given his routine matches in the earlier rounds, he ought to have won the final in straights. If you start to nit-pick, you'll struggle. What you consider to be unanswerable, will illicit answers.
Most mystifying for me is the need you seem to have for 'proving' that one player's efforts are less worthy than another's. In the scheme of things Carlos trumps Jannik's win in that he attained the number 1 ranking too and he is one of the youngest to have won the USO and 10th youngest to have won a slam. Hats off to him. It's what sets him apart in their current rivalry, you see. And that is a fact.
