It is not historically false. You were speaking of Laver times: the tour was fresh from having just merged, with the pro Majors carrying significantly more weight than the amateur Majors and the GS being achieved in recent memory (from another player too). None of the hindsight that you use, including your bombastic retorspect about 51 years having passed form Laver's achievement, apply to the time in question. You "hence" doesn't follow, not in that historical time, so it is you once again presenting your own ideas for historical truth. I already told you what to do with them.
Yes, you can continue to feed on the lie created by yuu and other Federer fanatics. The Grand Slam was and remains the zenith of tennis achievement,, not what some player did in his free time, winning non-majors, fake consolation "personal slams", finals appearances, or anything else. You will lie, but history does not. Laver, Court and others who won the Grand Slam were and are still considered the GOAT. It is that distinction, which pains you, as it is a very small club which Federer could not earn his way into at the height of his game.
You continue to use GOAT in plural, which is a absurd. You don't understand what GOAT means or is a reference to.
Study history (it is clear, you were not around to witness much of it), and refrain from embarrassing yourself on this board. You are so obsessed with trying to crown one player (everyone knows who that player is) that you prove you are utterly ignorant of where the term and concept of a greatest player in direct association with "Grand Slam" comes from. Like professional golf, with its own grand slam of four calendar majors irrevocably tied to players named the greatest of their sport, tennis uses the same achievement to recognize its greatest. Only someone born yesterday does not know that the Grand Slam is tied with the players consistently and historically identified as the greatest players. Yes, there's more than one, child,
if they won the Grand Slam.
Wipe away the tears. The fact no man has been able to win the Grand Slam in 51 years and no woman in 32 is not only evidence of the incredible difficulty in winning all four in the calendar year, but a reminder that the astounding talent and understanding of the game required to win it only graces a few special individuals across generations of a very old sport. The rest are not in that conversation at all, no matter how much trivia one tries to spin into GOAT-worthy credits.
At the time Graf was so far from being anywhere near GOAT status that it is not even funny.
Only you are saying that, which--like most of your post--is pulled from your rear. Graf was one of the most celebrated players of any sport in 1988--and forward because of her historic achievement. Your gross ignorance of the mass coverage and recognition of Graf as a GOAT player does not rewrite history, and certainly not in favor of Monica Seles and her own inability to win the Wimbledon title at the accepted height of her game. Navratilova has spent
decades attacking Graf's record. Why? Because at the time, Navratilova believed
she was some sort of GOAT until 1988, when she was neutralized across the board, with Graf rendering Navratilova's alleged dominance as the playthings of Martina's own dreams. Winning the Grand Slam and being called the greatest player of all time (since Court, Laver, et al.) was too much for Navratilova's inflated ego to bear, and as a result, she has--as noted--spent decades attacking her, when he real problem is with history she could not alter to favor her.
I am absolutely fine with the others thinking whatever their knowledge and understanding of the sport lets them.
Bull. You have wasted years posting your obsessive claim that Federer was some GOAT player, when he failed to earn the distinction. You--and another TTW obsessed fan--often play the ever doomed-to-fail game of belittling the importance of the Grand Slam and its permanent connection to GOAT status for one--and only one reason: Federer could not win it, therefore, if (in the minds of the worst of Federer's fans) if the Grand Slam is not tied to GOAT status, one can play
Trivial Pursuit - the Tennis Edition by piling on meaningless stats to pump up a certain man as a GOAT player.
...until those stats are surpassed by other players, then the infamous GOAT goal posts move once again. Oh, and they already do, since there's another group of Federer fanatics who screamed
"He am GOAT!" for more than a decade based on his majors count, but now that Nadal matched him, the script has flipped to "No such thing as a GOAT!"
Yes, there are GOAT players...and none are currently active on tour.
