Todd Martin: Djokovic more talented than Federer and Nadal

[racquetreligion]

Nole under pressure volleys very well, nothing wrong there but smashes are not smashing.
Id say he is top 1000 for smashes

 

[itrium84]

Very talented at missing overheads, contorting into pretzel shapes and being brainwashed by new age love gurus.

Hahaha
I am Djoko fan, but this is so well said!
It's funny because it's true.

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[Enceladus]

Federer and Nadal are the top two players in the world and have won 37 Grand Slam titles between them.

But Martin thinks Novak Djokovic is more technically gifted and he would go down as the greatest of all time if he had not been damned with injuries.

The Serbian added Grand Slam No 13 to his name at Wimbledon earlier this month, which put to bed a nightmare 12 months that included surgery on an elbow problem.

But before his recent issues, Djokovic won four major tournaments in a row to end the long-running dominance of Federer and Nadal.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/ten...adal-Todd-Martin-Novak-Djokovic-Mats-Wilander

Thoughts?

Lol, when did Djokovic have any injuries?
He skipped one slam in his career and suddenly he had a lot of injuries? Look how many slams Nadal skipped in his career.

Has Djokovic been more injured than Fed & Rafa?

I was puzzled by this one too. Has Djokovic been affected by injuries more than most players? There seems to be a consensus that after FO 16 he was affected by motivation issues more than anything else. And in his (relatively) lean years of 2012-14 were there significant injuries?


Not sure what "talented" means anyway - seems to be a phrase that means whatever people want it to mean.

All in all he's actually the least punished by injuries. He had basically not a single serious injury in his twenties.

So yeah, no.

Tood Martin chose the wrong words. Djokovic's career did not limit the injury (except the right elbow he underwent surgery this year), but the fitness that Djoker had bad.
He was retired much matches to 2010 his poor fitness did not allow these challenging duels to stand. Until the gluten-free diet that Djokovic started on Dr. Četojević's adherence allowed him to fully develop his potential.

 

[West Coast Ace]

Todd apparently never saw Djokovic hit an overhead.