If Federer was the same age as Murray, Nadal, Djokovic he would have been Wawrinka 2.0. Imagine him been owned on a regular basis from an early days of his career by such a professionals and mental strong players. Federer was a so so player until his 21, while other three were already on top of the game. So your point is invalid. If Federer and Djokovic were the same age, it would have been absolutely nasty for Roger.
As we all know, younger Andy Roddick was known for his slow serve and not big forehand.
Real tennis is a new sport. Before 2011, there was no such thing. It was just that laaaaaame, not real tennis stuff. Tennis has only been around for 5 years, and in another 10 years, the game will be exactly the same as it is now, because Holy Djokovic invented the sport.
Nadal saved the sport.
Before him it was like:
1 professional player with right attitude + tons of slow, unfit, mental fragile, inconsistent, injury-prone smoking and drinking mugchokers.
You're just seeing what you want to see. Nalbandian doesn't play a slow game. I watched your vid and obviously Nalbandian hits pretty damn hard and flat.
3/10 bait though, only because you'll only garner support from the conformation-bias victims. Nothing from the neutrals.
I'm genuinely surprised how this bait thread hasn't been closed yet.
A bit of advice to Djokovic fans - if you want your player to be "respected" it would be advised that you stop disrespecting every single tennis player that played tennis before your favorite came down upon the earth and showed everyone how to properly play "strong era tennis". You're not gonna accomplish much if your single most frequent activity on these forums is to bash, insult and disrespect tennis and tennis players from different "eras".
No, man, haven't you heard? They slowed down the courts, so now the serve of 130 mph plays like less then 60 mph.
You think explaining could help once in a while on this forum, but no! I tried to explain this by using frame-by-frame video analysis, but to no avail.
Lol @ todays game being much faster! Sure, sure. There is certainly a lot more running, if that's what you mean.
It's no surprise that fans of the current best player in the world want to go promoting him as GOAT/BOAT whatever. Fan allegiances are fed by the blinkered euphoria of psychological victory-by-p roxy. Emotional attachment to someone who is achieving something that makes them feel special or victorious in a way their own lives do not. We all do this....that is the allure of sport. And of course, the promotion of showbiz being what it is....the ascension of each new sporting elite forms a new wave of sycophantic media coverage....because, well, there is no money in people believing that the time to be watching sport was 10 or 20 years ago. *NOW* is always where it is at people....the best....mind blowing.....you can't miss it....(please buy a ticket/my paper/zine/read my blog).
The nature of the sport has definitely changed, that is for sure. It has become an defence orientated sport rather than one that used to favour the offensive player. It has moved from a skill base, to a much more athletic base. As a fan of the former, I grow weary of what the sport has become....but I can accept and appreciate that there are those that enjoy what Nadal and then Djokovic can do with a defensive game and incredible coverages. It used to pay to be an elite attacker in the game....but now those guys have become the gambler, and Nole the house. In most current conditions, the best returner can get to almost all of the hardest and most precise attacking shots...the bounce is higher, the balls fluffier and slower through the air, the courts more granular. The odds of attrition are with the largley reactive and not the largley proactive. The gamblers will win the odd hand, but the house knows the margins.
For me though, the great eras will always be those dominated by the proactive players. The swoosh of the Sampras serve....the cunning of a McEnroe transition....the incisive Edberg volley....the brutal precision of the Federer forehand. I want to see skill and aggression win through. Triumphant, beautiful tennis with purpose. It will always jar with me personally when someone tries to tell me that the current era is better when the players who prevail have such a deficit in these areas....but again it comes down to the game you believe in.....the game you want to see. And then how do you define "strong eras"? You don't, imo. It is just disrespectful childish nonsense that is almost always an attempt to elevate a favourite player that does not yet have the results to do so on their own merit.
The nature of the sport has definitely changed, that is for sure. It has become an defence orientated sport rather than one that used to favour the offensive player. It has moved from a skill base, to a much more athletic base
Exactly. I've been saying this for years now. The beautiful game is long gone. The game based on talent is replaced by a game based on athleticism. That's why Federer has negative H2Hs with Djokovic and Nadull after courts were slowed down.
When you take talent and skill out the equation, you really hurt Federer.
A single match isn't a proof for such a global statement, but yes, the game is faster and "more powerful" now than it was in 2005, and it'll be even more in 2025...
Watching videos of Federer from 04-07 just make me shake my head. There was nothing quality about it. He just dominated mugs in a slowass and not powerful game who had huge weaknesses in their games and weren't athletes. There was nothing athletic or physical or powerful about tennis when he dominated, and players (like Roddick, Nalbandian) defended and moved terribly and had huge weaknesses in their games.
Seriously, only a blind person can't see how awful that tennis was compared to now.
Federer is a product of an outdated game and got exposed as tennis became an actual sport, while Nole is the player who took tennis to new heights with his combination of physicals skill and tennis skills!
So you are saying a slow and powerless rally between a 1 slam wonder and slamless player is better than the crazy rally between two legends with 25 slams combined.:surprise:
Are you really that delusional...
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