@djokerprime Should ideally compare this next year as Federer was hardly a month short of turning 40 in 2021. And he had championship points in the final against Djokovic, a few weeks short of turning 38 (2019). Compare it with Djokovic's final in 2024 and semifinal in 2025 at age 37-38.
Moise Kouame is special. If he makes his serve watertight, the world is his for the taking.
'Sincaraz' will continue to win but the young/other gen- Jodar, Kouame, Fonseca, Mensik & (Rune/Fils) - will keep torpedoing their Slam counts from reaching Big 3 levels in the future.
This year's French Open is proving to be one of the strongest statements on why best-of-5 in men's tennis at Slams still matters and should NEVER be watered down. Now please bring back best-of-5 to the Masters finals too.
Mindblowing stuff.
Today was probably the greatest day of semifinal matches at the Australian Open in recent memory.
This is TENNIS and the best sport in the world for a reason!
Jannik and Carlos aside, we are well and truly in one of the weakest eras in men's tennis. Let's hope Mensik, Fils & Fonseca shall join the party soon!
Djokovic has been lucky to mop up Slams from 2020 till 23 against the erstwhile Next Gen pretender generation.
Happy to be proven wrong but in all probability, that may well have been Djokovic's last dance on Centre Court.
Eerie similarity to a 40 yr-old Federer's quarterfinal loss to Hurkacz in 2021 on one good knee.
If there is anything that can be rightfully described as the cricketing equivalent of how Roger Federer wields a tennis racquet, it is the sight of this man, Sachin Tendulkar, entertaining us with a cricket bat !