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Yeah Fed's fitness is underrated a bit. He never retired from a match in over 1500 matches which shows that.And in this type of discussion, Federer is always underestimated.
The reality is that his boundless class and dazzling elegance have made him underestimated when it comes to athletic means.
Federer was a five-star athlete of the highest caliber, gifted in turn with great stamina.
After all, you don't reach 23 consecutive semifinals in slams by relying solely on your class, nor can you manage to maintain the top of the rankings uninterruptedly for an entire four-year period.
That is not as good a record as beating best players in BO5. When Fed went long matches he always buckled. Even vs Safin. Who really cares if he never retired. At his best he could be overworked by rafole.Yeah Fed's fitness is underrated a bit. He never retired from a match in over 1500 matches which shows that.
Sure there is a flip side. But I think in a lot of Fed's loses in longer matches were because he was outplayed or out clutched.That is not as good a record as beating best players in BO5. When Fed went long matches he always buckled. Even vs Safin. Who really cares if he never retired. At his best he could be overworked by rafole.
Outplayed as in outhit?Sure there is a flip side. But I think in a lot of Fed's loses in longer matches were because he was outplayed or out clutched.
And Mac had a six hour Davis Cup win over Wilander!An unconventional choice could be McEnroe. Did not look that fit, but look at his USO 1980 performance. Had a tough quarterfinal with Lendl, played doubles, too, and then a 4,5 hours marathon with Connors on Saturday night and 10 hours later a further over 4 hours marathon with Borg, and won it all.
The iron man of tennis.It has to be someone who's won most of his long matches, either they're bo3 or bo5. So probably Novak Djokovic, considering he's been doing it for 20 years now and winning a lot of long and tight matches.
Got to be Djokovic, certainly in his post-2011 phase.
There’s a video interview with Borg somewhere, in which he says he doesn‘t ever remember being tired during a match.I don't have any numbers to back this up, but Bjorn Borg comes to mind. Stamina, in terms of a given match or tourney, not in terms of a career.
Other possible candidates: Vilas, Wilander, McEnroe, Rafa, Novak.
Yeah Fed's fitness is underrated a bit. He never retired from a match in over 1500 matches which shows that.
Yeah a bit his fans let us know hence a bitA bit? lol
He's derided on TTW for having no mental strength and not being able to grind.
Alcaraz always crampsFunny, I see Alcaraz on the list but not Sinner.
I saw Nadal and Djokovic, Ferrer, exhausted, but never Federer.!!And in this type of discussion, Federer is always underestimated.
The reality is that his boundless class and dazzling elegance have made him underestimated when it comes to athletic means.
Federer was a five-star athlete of the highest caliber, gifted in turn with great stamina.
After all, you don't reach 23 consecutive semifinals in slams by relying solely on your class, nor can you manage to maintain the top of the rankings uninterruptedly for an entire four-year period.
Nadal cooked him at RG 2014.
LOL.Of those I’ve seen, definitely djokovic since 2011. It’s still baffles me how he won that AO 2008 barely breaking sweat. Did he stop eating gluten for 2 weeks?
DeeperNadal raised the proverbial, Djokovic went further, higher, better.
Yeah, something like that.
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This is a great post. Sascha IS supremely physically fit with awesome stamina, but there has to be more than that.However, in this type of survey, distinctions should be made between physical resistance and mental resistance.
Let's take Zverev, for me he is one of the most physically prepared players on the circuit, the problem in some of his collapses is not in the body but in the head.
Nadal and Djokovic were the best in this sector precisely because they managed to perfectly combine the two things at the highest levels.
If the head cannot stand the body, you can have the best resistance in the world but sooner or later you collapse.
Alcaraz in the Roland Garros 2023 semifinal against Djokovic suffered cramps at the beginning of the third set due to tension due to the stakes of the match.Alcaraz always cramps
The ability to avoid injuries is not a synonym with having stamina.How do you define stamina? Nadal and Alcaraz seem to be popular answers, but that’s only over the course of a single match or tournament. Over the course of an entire season, they can barely make it through uninjured. Alcaraz has never reached 80 matches in a season.
From 1980-1982, Ivan Lendl played an average of 121 matches per season during a time when bo5 finals were common outside of slams. Nobody in the modern game has even played 100 matches in a season. How’s that for stamina?
But is that still not stamina, or at least an aspect of it?Alcaraz in the Roland Garros 2023 semifinal against Djokovic suffered cramps at the beginning of the third set due to tension due to the stakes of the match.
And we return to the issue that mind and body are closely linked when we talk about resistance.
A bit like the immune system itself that can weaken when you are very stressed.