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Novak and Raffa are 2 of the top 3 players of all time - comparing any current player to anyone in that group is pointless.

Quote from: shawny – on January 27, 2025, 10:51:13 am

Sinner is the returning champ and hardly lost a set all tournament and far from ordinary.  He has won 3 slams now and will win many more. 

Novak and Raffa are 2 of the top 3 players of all time - comparing any current player to anyone in that group is pointless.

Records are relative.

I suspect if Federer was around and playing in his prime at the moment he would probably be on a grand slam hattrick about now, the current players aren't in the same league as the people he regularly came up against. I'm not even sure Sinner and Alcaraz would get the better of the 2nd tier types from the early Federer ear 2000 through 2010.

Bradman would be scoring heavily too… 🙄

Quote from: northernblue – on January 28, 2025, 08:27:24 am

Bradman would be scoring heavily too… 🙄

Yes, he probably would.

Djoker lost 4 of every 5 against Federer for the first 12 or 14 years of their coincident career, it's only after Federer started to wind back that Djoker evened up the numbers in the end.

The idea that someone of Djoker's vintage can remain so dominant sort of says something about modern tennis.

Federer was dominant in an era which had far greater depth of talent than the current players, they are full of themselves, the marketing and dollars of the modern game have made them legends in their own lunch box.

Off topic but the Jelena Dokic doco was fantastic. The father was and is an absolute kent of a human. She might have been anything had she had semi normal parents. Heart wrenching to watch but awesome.

Off topic but the Jelena Dokic doco was fantastic. The father was and is an absolute kent of a human. She might have been anything had she had semi normal parents. Heart wrenching to watch but awesome.

Six more current or former tennis players linked to a match-fixing syndicate in Belgium were given suspensions of varying lengths — one was barred for 15 years — and fined, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said.

That brings the total to about 30 players punished for their connections to the syndicate run by Grigor Sargsyan, who was previously given a five-year custodial sentence.

The player who received the longest ban in the announcement, 34-year-old Agustin Moyano of Argentina, was suspended for 15 years and fined $10,000 after denying the charges and requesting a full hearing.

Australian tennis player-turned-commentator Rennae Stubbs has made the shock declaration she thinks Jannik Sinner is "guaranteed" to cop a ban when he fronts the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in April. Sinner won his second Australian Open and third grand slam title last week, but his immediate future in the sport is under a cloud.

The World No.1 will face a CAS hearing and could be facing a maximum two-year ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed a decision by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) to clear him. Sinner twice tested positive to banned steroid Clostebol last March, but the ITIA allowed him to keep playing after he claimed he was inadvertently contaminated by his physio.

I dont watch Tennis but its interesting to me how Sinner has escaped punishment and sold the old contaminated by another story and got away with it but that rarely works in other sports and id pose the question that if he was ranked 150 in the world instead of No 1 would he have been suspended/banned?
Djokovic has copped plenty of heat for withdrawing but the aptly named Sinner who has been caught twice for steroid use gets away with zero heat coming his way...

nah we won't go the Italian.  He's the good type of wog.