He's actually doing more damage to Sinner/Alcaraz's rep reaching these GrandSlam SF's all year despite being a part time grandfather. He's killing them by exposing the tour and their supposed "competition" He is actually proving and exposing Alcaraz/Sinner's competition by proving he wins the calendar slam even at 38 year years old if Sinner/Alcaraz wasn't around. I think he sticks around to win 25 but hes killing them like a boa constrictor in other ways like "WTF Is this? You call this competition? I'm the third best player in the world and I could fathered you with a drunken one night stand "
I see why Djokovic keeps playing even though he isn't winning a slam
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Novak won two of the last eight slams going into AO 2014. That wasn't his "peak". I'm not going to argue with you if you just want to call people names though, because that just shows your position is weak. If you think Stan's level surpassed Big 3 peak then you can believe that.
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Lol he himself said it's nowhere near the same at this age. But keep hating I guess if that rocks your boat
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What he says might be the word of the god for his worshippers, but neutral parties are skeptical of any such statements.
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You wouldn't know neutral if it hit you in the face lol
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If you think there's no big difference how a pro athlete performs at 31 or at nearly 39 dunno what to tell you, that's just ignorance
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You are simply putting words into my tongue, as you have no valid fact to back up your false premise that "Wawrinka only won slams when the big 4 had dips in form".
Fact: Djokovic was winning 28 matches in a row until Stan beat him at AO 2014. Against he was winning 28 matches in a row until Stan beat him at FO 2015 final.
So Stan beat the arguably "GOAT" at his best twice at slams, one of them at his pet slam. Stan has nothing to prove to you.
You do realize that Novak comprises only 25% of the Big 4, right?
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Not Alcaraz though. Only Sinner.
I seriously hope that Djokovic is not playing for the reasons given by the OP. That would actually even be dumb, as exposing the weakness of the field would only just also expose that he inflated his slam count against a weak field.
He still wins most of his matches, earns a lot of money and hopefully enjoys playing tennis. These are more than sufficient reasons to play on as long as he wants.
He still wins most of his matches, earns a lot of money and hopefully enjoys playing tennis. These are more than sufficient reasons to play on as long as he wants.
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You've spent the last 5 years using "40-15" as the trump card to win any and all arguments, ie. a 38 yo. choking championship points was so incredibly funny to you. Now that the shoe is on the other side (although Djokovic doesn't even get a sniff at playing competitive matches in later grand slam rounds) you're crying how it's unfair to judge athletes at an advanced age. Poetic.
Federer was 38 in 2019 and making Slam F and SF (and winning Masters 1000) while ranked #2. Was that a weak era too?
Serena Williams came back from pregnancy at that age and made multiple Slam Finals (with much worse fitness than Djokovic).
Navratilova made a Wimbledon final at 38 (in the 1990s, without all the technological and scientific advancements in nutrition and fitness training etc...).
What Novak has been doing is remarkable, but he's not exactly the first GOAT level player to achieve good results in his late 30s, so I don't get the exaggeration.
Serena Williams came back from pregnancy at that age and made multiple Slam Finals (with much worse fitness than Djokovic).
Navratilova made a Wimbledon final at 38 (in the 1990s, without all the technological and scientific advancements in nutrition and fitness training etc...).
What Novak has been doing is remarkable, but he's not exactly the first GOAT level player to achieve good results in his late 30s, so I don't get the exaggeration.
And Federer comprises another 25%. Stan beat him in straight sets in 2015 at RG. Federer made 2 slam finals in 2015 so I don't think you can really argue he was suffering a dip in form either.
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That sure wasn't me, nor there was any arguments to be won with it, Novak has more slams, masters, weeks etc than Fed. Not to mention Djokovic is 5 yrs 10m younger than Fed. And he's 16 years older than Alcaraz. Learn to math
Nevertheless, almost 6 years is a significant age disadvantage when one player is almost 38 and the other 32.
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It was significant advantage when Novak was breaking into top 10 and Fed at the peak of his powers. Can't have everything
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OK, age does matter in tennis. Players, including Djokovic, peak at 22-27yo. Absolute peak Nole was winning 1 slam per season in his peak form years 2012-2014 (and he got away with one in 2013 because umpires assisted him). He had to wait for an extremely weak stretch in tennis history to overinflate his stats.
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His peak didn't last two years. That's for the lesser players who flame out over night
Never said otherwise. Federer had the age advantage early, Djokovic the advantage later.
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