It's because Nadal missed USO so many times due to injuries and also maybe covid in 2020.
I could see him doing 90+ at all 4.
102 > 89
Even after pandemic stopped Nole do not underestimate him. He is 1 step above fed. He may really play till 40 and achieve these all. It's the same tactics fedfans used discounting his 6 years extra career to call him betterer and stuff.
He and fed both are very complete.
Agree, that's probably one of the reasons I liked Fed as a player a lot but as a person, not so much.
Hope he take lead in triple career slam as well. Rafa should never have been allowed to win second Australian open after Novak was deported. Kind of made a joke out of double career slam. Now we need triple.
If he wins on 2/4 then that is matching Federer, which should be minimum target
There really shouldn't be a target. This is a metric of how good he is, but a secondary one at that. Djokovic's first priority no doubt is winning matches in slams - in order to win slams. Not so he can have 100+ wins at each major, and certainly not so he can do it better than Federer did.
Shouldn't he be absolute best Consistency + Longetivity wise? Federer was.
AO and hopefully Wimby. It's his favorite grand slam.
And Djokovic was too. At this point his numbers are crushed by just not attending slams. Like Federer's RG numbers are a bit lower than his consistency/longevity would suggest, so are Djokovic's USO numbers. Proving you're the best consistency/longevity wise can also just come from looking at stats like "semifinals after 30" or something. It shows just just as well. In a stat like this, you can have an incredible early career keep up poor late career numbers or an incredible late career disguise poor early career numbers.
I posted graphs. Apart from RG Federer and Djokovic mirror each other. RG Fed skipped 3 but he was trending down anyway.
Still think he was better at RG than Wimbledon until like 2015. But it is clear that RG is weakest late of his career. AO he has a good chance to pass 100. For all almost no way.
Nadal could have take the AO, DCGS ın 2014 before Djokovic get his career slam. But he was injured in the final against Stan. So yes it's also his issue and we don't know what would have happened had he not injured.
Great point.
With RG and Wimbledon yet to come this season, the numbers for those two tournaments even look better though. Only USO falls short.
I wouldn't even say he was better at RG then. In 2014, he had made at least 6 SFs in both Slams but had 2 titles at Wimbledon to 0 at RG. Hard to argue for RG here.
Context should matter no? Facing against Nadal is not the same. Until 2014 He didn't played against Federer either other than 2012 if i'm not wrong. So Federer didn't stop him from winning Wimbledon. Considering he has only 1 more win now maybe 1 less time played at Wimbledon. In 2014-15 he must have more wins at RG than Wimbledon. Only 2009-10 bad for him probably at RG otherwise he is/was much more consistent at RG.
I don't understand what you meant there. He had more match wins at Wimbledon at the end of 2014 than RG. Yes Nadal is a tougher roadblock at RG than anyone at Wimbledon, but Djokovic's natural game is more lethal on grass than clay. There's no doubt about it.
Oh really he had more wins back then at WB. I was saying since Wimbledon cancelled one year he played Wimbledon 1 less time than RG probably. He didn't face against Federer in Federer's prime. Facing against Prime Nadal at RG is already much more difficult than anyone he can face at Wimbledon. Since from the beginning he was reaching Nadal more often than not. At RG Nadal was stopping him mostly In Wimbledon he had losses against other players more.
Nice charts.
Novak Djokovic is so much better than Federer that the Pandemic which caused Novak issues on 3 out of 4 slams didn't hurt his stats at the same age as Federer.
Yes USOpen Novak is slacked off a bit but he had horrendous luck at the USOpen getting defaulted once and banned another time, both times when he was fully healthy. He would have trumped Federer at all 4 slams otherwise at the same age. You can't even argue Federer's case anymore.
Nadal as expected is so far down that its not really funny. Except at RG where he is almost unbeatable. Nadal is a surface GOAT but these numbers don't lie.
There is GOAT 1 Djokovic GOAT 1A Federer
Nadal is not GOAT.
If Djokovic can play till 40 years age, he can definitely overcome all 4 slams over Federer. He most likely will be far better than Fed at AO and RG. But at Wimby and USO also he will be very close even after Pandemic.
What is the obsession with Djokovic passing Fed in everything? I just don’t get why this is so all consuming.
Novak Djokovic is so much better than Federer that the Pandemic which caused Novak issues on 3 out of 4 slams didn't hurt his stats at the same age as Federer.
Yes USOpen Novak is slacked off a bit but he had horrendous luck at the USOpen getting defaulted once and banned another time, both times when he was fully healthy. He would have trumped Federer at all 4 slams otherwise at the same age. You can't even argue Federer's case anymore.
Nadal as expected is so far down that its not really funny. Except at RG where he is almost unbeatable. Nadal is a surface GOAT but these numbers don't lie.
There is GOAT 1 Djokovic GOAT 1A Federer
Nadal is not GOAT.
If Djokovic can play till 40 years age, he can definitely overcome all 4 slams over Federer. He most likely will be far better than Fed at AO and RG. But at Wimby and USO also he will be very close even after Pandemic.
I’m just curious, it’s a fan’s mindset that seems odd to me, but what do I know.
Sport is about competing. Federer has set many new standards to which players measure themself.
