90's Clay
Banned
You can look back in history.. and we really we have never seen anything like it.. Why are guys today (mainly outside the top 3-4 in the world), so INCAPABLE of winning big titles?
I guess people can make the argument that how tough it is to break through that wall.... But lets look at the FACTS... Fed's level has gone down over the years, no one is denying that, Djokovic's level has dropped significantly from last year.. Hell whens the last time Nadal has even defended a title off of clay? And he's been injured,
So its not like we have the trio of Fed, Djoker, Nadal at their respective peaks all at the same time (Which would make this problem more understandable But . NONE of them are at their best clearly in term of peak level.
Generally, when the older guard's level went down, you had other guys there taking over and picking up where they left off. Yet, today even with the older guards career's declining, diminishing, whatever.. There is still none there to pick the torch up and run with it outside these standard 3 (Fed, Nole, Nadal)
Yet for whatever reason... no one can take advantage of these things and grab their piece of the pie. How inept can the field truly be?
Even with the top 3 being at more of their lowest points (if you compare them to their best), still no one can take advantage of that. You would figure by now, we would have at least a few more names thrown in the hat of getting some big titles from these guys, grabbing slams and other big events.
So many of these guys should be entering the top high points of their careers by now.. Yet no one seems to be doing much of ANYTHING.
I guess people can make the argument that how tough it is to break through that wall.... But lets look at the FACTS... Fed's level has gone down over the years, no one is denying that, Djokovic's level has dropped significantly from last year.. Hell whens the last time Nadal has even defended a title off of clay? And he's been injured,
So its not like we have the trio of Fed, Djoker, Nadal at their respective peaks all at the same time (Which would make this problem more understandable But . NONE of them are at their best clearly in term of peak level.
Generally, when the older guard's level went down, you had other guys there taking over and picking up where they left off. Yet, today even with the older guards career's declining, diminishing, whatever.. There is still none there to pick the torch up and run with it outside these standard 3 (Fed, Nole, Nadal)
Yet for whatever reason... no one can take advantage of these things and grab their piece of the pie. How inept can the field truly be?
Even with the top 3 being at more of their lowest points (if you compare them to their best), still no one can take advantage of that. You would figure by now, we would have at least a few more names thrown in the hat of getting some big titles from these guys, grabbing slams and other big events.
So many of these guys should be entering the top high points of their careers by now.. Yet no one seems to be doing much of ANYTHING.
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