Posted on 09/12/2021 4:36:24 PM PDT by Jim W N
Felt bad for Novak. He’ll be back.
My view is that some of Djokovic’s success is because of a demographic thing. He is enough younger than the others that they aged out earlier and he has sort of an open run until younger players catch up in skill - not trying to take anything away from him. He is a skilled and very disciplined player. But age gets all of us, and clearly his opportunity is gone. It will be brutal trying to continue to dominate a phenomenal group of young players.
He’s only a 51 weeks younger than Nadal. Still, it counts for something, I suppose. I hope he manages it next year. I’ve been surprised to see Federer offer some unnecessary commentary on Djokovic.
Indeed.. Medvedev was OUTSTANDING!
Tennis, is a YOUNG man’s game.
He’s won 20 majors, and is younger than Federer and Nadal.
Venus seemed far kinder and classier, though not as good as Serena.
Andre Agassi From Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Agassi
Agassi was the first man to win all four Grand Slam singles tournaments on three different surfaces (hard, clay and grass), and the last American man to win both the French Open (in 1999)[8] and the Australian Open (in 2003).
Aluminum” (Graphite-Boron-Fiberglass, etc,...) bats in Major League baseball. No different.
The artistry is gone. Laver McEnroe Sampras Rosewall Borg (who played serve and volley at Wimbledon despite being baseliner) Pedro Becker M Court Evone G.
Tennis is past. One dimensional.
5 hour matches.
Send me a message if you need help, hell, I'll even mow your lawn to avoid watching tennis.
You’re right that a lot of the old artistry of the serve and volley is limited now and I miss that.
But I think tennis has new artistry of strength, speed, and accuracy. A top plyer must master the serve, serve return, both forehand and backhand ground strokes, and quickness and artistry of approach and volley at the net. The trade-off seems to be that players must be bigger and stronger than they used to be.
Surprising to me is I still enjoy watching the top skill of these tennis players and it isn’t all just physical strength and speed. The mental and emotional game is also very big as we saw the last two weeks.
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