Quote Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost... View Post
I disagree to a certain degree, I think it has been such a physically demanding era I don't expect any of the 'emerging' players to be doing much until they get towards their late 20's, that seems to be these days when everything comes together for a player, all coalesces and still have theyphysical attributes to compete.

Sampras, Becker and Nadal were special players but you don't always get them. Federer is the GOAT.

Plus have Nadal and Federer been playing at a level recently that belies the players they were? I don't think they are.
Well Nadal will probably never win Wimbledon again because his knees are fucked

And the plexicushion surface in Melbourne doesn’t agree with him

Federer is ever green and has added the backhand to his box of tricks probably tiring maunevering himself onto his forehand all the time, but like last year almost certain he will miss the clay court season

And frankly they are both benefiting from Djokovic and Murray being Crocked. Federer hasn’t been able to lay a glove on Djokovic for years.

The game is Athletic the racket heads and the way the game is being coached is all geared to Baseline play (and no bad thing, the era of serve volleying was atrocious) therefore logically the younger a player is the greater his staying power should be.

Plus when you look at the previous lot of new comers who were meant to make it in Tennis, like Raonic, Dimitrov and Nishikori....none of these look like breaking in.

Cilic has got to two grand slam finals in the past year off the back of injuries dogging the top rankings, he really isn’t anything special.

And Stan Wawrinka, not sure what happened there. The guy always had the game but not the consistency, but i wouldn’t expect him to add to his majors haul.