During its peak years Nole has been unable to win B2B FO +WIM, he won't in decline. Only Fed and Rafa have been able to do it. He is the biggest loser in us open like Lendl, . Not sure Nole is fav if he has to play Kyrgios early in wimby. He has never win against him, but yeah best chance for him might be wimbledon. He played a tired wawrinka last year in USO despite having a cakewalk with 2 walkovers and winning first set in final, but found a way to lose.
Are there a few more rationale Nole fans like doubletrollt or novakslam2016? , cause nolevolent and floki are living on another planet right now
i think that his best chance will be at wimbi: in the RG he only won once and it is his least favorite slam, he also has RG GOAT to beat and it's not going to be easy, but most importent thing is that he hasn't fully recoverd from his crisis so i rate his chances in the RG about 15%-20%.
he has batter chances on the paper and i think that is very likely that he will get to the final if he will be in good form but he is 2-5 at finals at uso(and this is pretty bad) and the only times he won was in his best years(2011, 2015) so i wouldn't count on him to win the final.
the only slam that left is wimbi and i think that he has a decent chance to win there since nadal is crap on grass since 2012, murray's form is pretty bad and he probably won't be able to back to his best until then and he won his last 2 finals aginst his best rival in W, federrer.
BUT, i also think that in wimbi he has the best cance for an early exit since big servers like raonic,karlovic, sam and espicely kirgios will be able to hit aces and big serves again and again and maybe even win him again just like sam last year.
i think that it is highly unlikely for novak to win all 3 since there is a reason why to win RG-W-USO is so rare(nadal is the only one that did it)
He doesn't have any chance at Wimbledon. He's vulnerable to big servers even on HCs. It only takes someone like Karlovic, Isner or Querrey to beat Djokovic there.
nolevolent, novak did won a grand slam but it was w-uso-ao-ro and not ro-w-uso-ao. ofcurse it was very imperssive but i think winning ro-w-uso is harder than winning w-uso-ao for novak(And wee can see it since novak did twice w-uso-ao but never the fo-w-uso) because he was never able to win ro and w in the same year, but was able to win ao constntly and uso when he was in his peak(2011, 2015).
novak has a problem in uso finals(2-5 is pretty bad, regadless what is your opinion about nole) and he lost to 4 different players(murray,wawa,roger,nadal*2) and he is 1-3 in the rolan.
i'm not saying that he has to retire and he has no chance to win slams but exepcting him to reach somthing that he has never done, in the age of 30 after a massive crisis is a little too much for my opinion.
i do not know if you belive me, but i really don't hate novak and respect him as a player Although that he is not even close to be my fave.
about my english, i'm still a teen and somtimes is hard for me to express my opinion clearly.I bellive that it will improve gradually
Actually, my reply was to fifthsetchoke. But you are wrong as well and completely unreasonable, unfair and negative towards Nole.
You mention that Nole hasn't done something in a very specific order. Who cares? 4 in a row is 4 in a row. It doesn't matter which order it started in. He has done it. Proven he can do it.
Nole is back. He has gotten his speed, power, strength and stamina back.
When Nole is in form he's in a league of his own. It's just Nole and everyone else. I fully expect Nole to dominate like 2015/early 2016 really soon, starting at RG.
wht does it matter? because every ATG has batter slams and worse slams. in novak's case it goes like this: ao------(big gap)w-uso-fo. since he won ao again and again, and was able to win uso and w in his best years, it was likely for him to win in the order w-uso-ao
his worst 2 slams next to each other is RG and W(since he was able to win w-uso twice, ao-ro and us-ao twice) so every 3 slams that include the RG-W.
you can see it also in other cases: federer was able to do w-uso-ao twice becuse w is his best slam,he was able to win uso again and again during his peak, and he also was decent in ao, but failed to to ao-ro-w(the one that rquires the most veraity with fo-w-uso) and fo-w-uso because the RG is his least favorite slam just like novak.
for nadal every one that include RG is the most likely to happen for him. ao-ro-w wasn't likely for him, because the ao is his worst slams(and more precisely, what that happened to him, in ao finals) but fo-w-uso was more likely since he was in w until 2012 and in the uso between 2010-2013. but we both agree that it was highly unlikely for him to win w-uso-ao since he was never able to win ao and uso in the same year(just like nole failed to do with ro and w)
The most difficult combination in my opinion is AO + RG. These two slams are with big gap in time and it is more difficult to sustain great form in such a long period meaning - the hard court season in the beginning of the season - the two most difficult masters - IW-Miami with their big draws and the whole clay season with RG. Novak Djokovic has done something phenomenal in the last couple of years despite winning RG only once - he has been on top form in this long period winning on hard courts and clay. This hasn't been done even by Federer and Nadal. You see how Federer skipped the clay season. Djokovic was winning masters events on clay beating Nadal constantly even before his decline. His FO win last year is the most deserved as he has beaten the clay GOAT on every possible clay tournament.
So this combination - AO + RG is very rare. Till 2016 it hasn't been done since Jum Courier in 1992!!! So you can see how difficult it is. Novak Djokovic has won 4 consecutive Slams - from Wimbledon 2015 to FO 2016 - it means he has sustained top form for a longer period of time than just one calendar year which is even harder to do. This is a phenomenal achievement. This explains perfectly well his big slump after FO 2016 - it is just inhumane not to fall after such a big emotional and physical effort.
I don't think Djokovic is gonna win a Slam this year - may be next year. He has to regroup, his body and mind need it. I can understand this. The same goes with Andy Murray who put in an enormous effort to become number one.
He ain't beating Federer at either Wimbledon or US Open now that Federer has a baseline game so that only leaves RG where he has to avoid Rafa and Stan to win. Since Rafa will definitely at least be in the final, he isn't winning that either so zero slams for Djokovic in 2017 which means a great season for tennis.
since federer won 3 big titels rhis season, which is pretty ompressive and novak hasn't since to 2016(it was in the middle of last summer) i belive that the GOAT has the adge in this case in the most of the cases.
0 slams with 1 final at the USO, 2 if he's in a different half from Nadal at RG. Nadal will definitely be too much for him at RG, a big server such as Kyrgios will be able to take care of him at Wimbledon, or Zverev as we just saw in Rome, and even Murray has never lost a set against him on grass, while at USO he only wins it in his best years (2011 and 2015). Even Wawrinka and Nishikori beat him there.
Slams? I'll be happy if he even wins a masters title. I'm serious. I am predicting a masterless, slamless season for Novak this year. I think 2017 for Djokovic will be like Nadal's 2015, or Federer's 2013 for that matter. Both Nadal and Federer only made it to the finals of a single masters tournament in those seasons, and so far Djokovic has done the same. IIRC Federer also only won a single 250 title at Halle. So far Djokovic has a single 250 at Doha. Very similar patterns thus far.
Hopefully he will beat RAFA for RG title.
If justice is served then we will have 13-14-20 by the end of the year.
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