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| Topic | Is Novak Djokovic the greatest tennis player ever? |
| squexa 06/14/21 2:42:08 PM #41: | redrocket posted... How far ahead are those 3 from Pete Sampras, anyway? It's hard to say. Sampras has 14 grand slams and is missing a French Open (he never even made finals), whereas the big 3 all have at least 19 grand slams and at least one career grand slam and of course, were playing against each other for most of their career. For most people, that's enough to consider the big 3 above Sampras, but you do sometimes see claims that Sampras is the GOAT mostly using era vs era logic like 90s serve and volley were tougher or something. At least with regards to the big 3 specifically, you can probably make the best case for Sampras > Nadal. The argument would go that Nadal's only better at clay while Sampras is better on hard court and especially grass. Sampras also has more weeks at #1 than Nadal and has won the ATP Finals 5 times, while Nadal has won 0. It's much harder to argue Sampras > Djokovic/Federer without resorting to some era argument since they trump him in almost every category. --- congrats to azuarc, our GotD2 guru! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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