Tennis after the Big 3 - What to expect?

Tennis after the big 3

  • Terrible - A true dark age in tennis

    Votes: 17 56.7%

  • Great - New people, new faces, new opportunities

    Votes: 13 43.3%
  • Total voters
    30
REKX

REKX

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As a Federer and Nadal fan, tennis has always been about these two - Djokovic has come in and caused major disruption to both of them and probably will go down as being the most accomplished of the 3 at the end of it all. I think the peak of tennis was around the years of 2007-2012. The build up and anticipation of events like Wimbledon 2008 was immense.

I don’t know what we are heading towards after the big 3 finally retire. I’ve never known tennis without them and I really don’t know what to expect. Are we heading for a prolonged dark age until a player(s) emerge with the desire, willingness and talent each of the big 3 have?

Tennis needs big names to be playing in the tournaments. I don’t think it will be great for the sport if you have new and familiar names winning each grand slam. You may see a guy win the Ausrtralian Open and the disappear for three years.

How do you see tennis after the big 3 retire?
 
STOP IT, STOP SAYING YOU’RE A FEDERER AND NADAL FAN. WE KNOW, EVERYONE AND THEIR MOM KNOWS. PLEASE, END OUR SUFFERING. HOW MUCH LONGER WILL WE BE FORCED THROUGH THIS
 
Yep.
The strange thing to imagine (because we so unused to it) is that someone (other than you know who) will be winning slams. So there will be these "other" slam winners, (even if right now we believe that they are all mugs or bums).

But how will we know--because then, they will be "slam winners."

So, whoever they are, they will look just about as good as any other single-digit, multiple slam winners, like McEnroe or Agassi or Connors or Lendl or Wilander or Edberg or Becker or Vilas or Courier or Ashe or Murray or Wawrinka.
 
In Canada at least we have Raonic stirring up interest and now a promising tandem. In the US the sport will continue to die.

Europe will be unchanged.

Oh, you meant quality of tennis? Yeah pretty ****e.
 
I won’t be watching nearly as much. I’ll watch slam finals and that’s probably about it.
 
I’ve been watching since the late 70s when I was a kid and I’ll keep watching long after the Big 3 are gone. That Sinner/Alcaraz match at Wimbledon gave me a lot of hope for very high quality tennis going forward. I agree that it will be a strange transition for a year or two but you could see Medvedev win 5+ Grand Slams, Alcaraz make a great run where he wins the majority of GS for a few years, Sinner round into shape, etc. It will be a lot of fun to watch and I left out a bunch of younger players with promise. As an American, I am hoping that Sebastian Korda enters this dialogue at some point…
 
TheNachoMan said:
I won’t be watching nearly as much. I’ll watch slam finals and that’s probably about it.
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That goes to show that, unsurprisingly, many here are fans of just three players (perhaps a fourth) but care little or nothing about the sport as a whole.
:cautious:
 
We are already down to big 2. Roger hasn’t been in action for quite sometime and it’s been a while since he took a slam.
Soon it will be Big 1. And then none..
 
They need to do something to change the game. 20 years of poly and baseline bashing is enough. O don't know: make points won with volleys worth double. Ban poly, max racket head size... After the big 3 all we will have are tall lanky players with poor movement and no netplay (well only fed had true skill at the net from the big 3 anyway)
 
DSH said:
That goes to show that, unsurprisingly, many here are fans of just three players (perhaps a fourth) but care little or nothing about the sport as a whole.
:cautious:
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Why should anyone get excited about some sub-par young gen mental midgets winning their first slams, when no history is on the line? The intrigue isn't there, nobody is playing for any sort of history and the quality of tennis they play also reflect all of that...i'd rather sqitch to another sport altogether...
 
Djokodalerer31 said:
Why should anyone get excited about some sub-par young gen mental midgets winning their first slams, when no history is on the line? The intrigue isn't there, nobody is playing for any sort of history and the quality of tennis they play also reflect all of that...i'd rather sqitch to another sport altogether...
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No fan of propaganda?
:sneaky:
 
DSH said:
That goes to show that, unsurprisingly, many here are fans of just three players (perhaps a fourth) but care little or nothing about the sport as a whole.
:cautious:
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Yeah, I’m a plastic fan. I got into tennis in the big 4 era and I’ll likely be departing it when it ends.
 
crimson87 said:
They need to do something to change the game. 20 years of poly and baseline bashing is enough. O don't know: make points won with volleys worth double. Ban poly, max racket head size... After the big 3 all we will have are tall lanky players with poor movement and no netplay (well only fed had true skill at the net from the big 3 anyway)
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Why would you want to bring back serve and volley? No way near as exciting. Very short points and less athleticism. Compare Sampras Wimbledon wins to Federer’s. I know which style took tennis to a new level of excitement and interest.
 
REKX said:
Why would you want to bring back serve and volley? No way near as exciting. Very short points and less athleticism. Compare Sampras Wimbledon wins to Federer’s. I know which style took tennis to a new level of excitement and interest.
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S&V less athletic? Don't bring Federer here he is not part of the problem. Federer is an all around player. The circuit pumping 6'4 and up players with big but erratic serves, dual handed backhands, no slice,no volleys and poor mobility that return serves from the stands is the problem.
 
It will be a vacuum akin to 02-03 which will likely see a couple ATGs emerge over a bit of a longer vacuum akin to 04-07, and then a few more ATGs. I think they'll all lack longevity or the level of the big 3, so we could see many more than 3 ATGs in this period.
 
REKX said:
As a Federer and Nadal fan, tennis has always been about these two - Djokovic has come in and caused major disruption to both of them and probably will go down as being the most accomplished of the 3 at the end of it all. I think the peak of tennis was around the years of 2007-2012. The build up and anticipation of events like Wimbledon 2008 was immense.

I don’t know what we are heading towards after the big 3 finally retire. I’ve never known tennis without them and I really don’t know what to expect. Are we heading for a prolonged dark age until a player(s) emerge with the desire, willingness and talent each of the big 3 have?

Tennis needs big names to be playing in the tournaments. I don’t think it will be great for the sport if you have new and familiar names winning each grand slam. You may see a guy win the Ausrtralian Open and the disappear for three years.

How do you see tennis after the big 3 retire?
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There will be some sad moments for their fans but the game will move on.
 
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