Felix gets past Laaksonen to reach the QF.
Serve wasn't great today but he was clutch on BP's.
Serve wasn't great today but he was clutch on BP's.
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Hadoop
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I would say yes. To have three all-timers at the same time including the best and second best ever pushing each other is something you rarely see in sports.
Yes, definitely. I would add to Hadoop's comment that the fact that the Federal/Nadal/Djokovic generation of Top Ten players has dominated two generations of players (their own gen and the lost gen) and, collectively well into their 30's, may be doing the same to a third generation (or, at least, certainly impeding its progress) is evidence of this era's golden nature. From a more general perspective, I would add a point that I have made before: forget the Big Five, it took forever for the new generations to dislodge Tomas Berdych from the Top Ten, let alone the players ahead of him. Tsonga hung on for a long time as well.
Another more subtle point about this era as a whole is look also at the players in their 30s who are blossoming right now as late bloomers: Anderson, Bautista Agut, Mischa Zverev--it was less than a year ago that everyone in the Top Ten was over 30 years of age. That speaks to the dominance of the F/N/D era of players, as well
Finally, Medvedev, Garcia Lopez, Dolgopolov, Paire, Tsonga, Fritz, and De Minaur are all ranked 60 or lower at the moment. No other era had anything approaching depth like that. Not even close.
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Yeah, definitely. And lmao at people who consider Andy Murray to make it a big four.
Now I can safely say that I think the answer is "no." Like I said, Zverev lacks strength, gumption and heart.
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