"The thing is more open than ever," said Djokovic Nole just before the start of the Australia Open in January. And a priori must be true, but there was a devastating fact, that during 2010 has proved stubborn. In the past 6 years, during which there was the emergence of Nadal and Federer's consecration, only 5 players have registered their name in the list of winners of the Grand Slam tournaments, and three of them (the very Djokovic, Safin and Del Potro) have done on occasion.
is, taking into account that four year dispute between Federer Nadal have won no less than the remaining 21. Rafa won 9 and 12 the Swiss player, who had won 3 in 2004, incidentally. This is an absolutely devastating: Nadal and Federer are the masters of this (your) time tennis.
As we read and hear often in sports circles well informed, despite the recent victories of Rafa in the finals of Grand Slam, people keep talking about Roger Federer not only as the greatest player of this era, but as' the best tennis player all time. " Those who believe they base their claim on the number of Grand Slam wins. The Swiss player has 16 to his credit, followed in this ranking from Pete Sampras with 14. In addition, Federer is one of the 7 players of all time who has won all 4 major tournaments. Rafa has achieved something that recently put his name in the U.S. Open in New York.
But we all know that tennis is, essentially, a game invented to challenge each other in a direct way. Should be placed next to the network to earn more points, games or sets the opponent on the opposite side. Having achieved that goal, the opponent will change, but the purpose never will, will be tested with it. Many games, sets and matches, many challenges gave rise to the tournaments, as a logical consequence of the progress of the sport.
Under the premise of direct confrontation, and intuition, we came back to the statistics to recheck the big names ...
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