Arena Federer/Nadal/Djokovic Era - Now 1/3rd Over

I do find it encouraging that I'm only two behind her in mixed-doubles Slam titles. There is still time.

 

It's never too early to start laying the groundwork for the 2019 JCC awards.

 

A little break from March Madness to watch Del Potro beat bearded Roger at the Indian Wells final.

 

just wanted to let everyone know that rafa absolutely crushed his two davis cup matches this weekend (against kohlschreiber and sascha zverev respectfully). he looks ready for the clay court season.

 

hey, here's another update. nadal has now won his 11th titles at both monte carlo and barcelona and has yet to drop a set on clay this year. that's 46 sets.

 

2017 redux

 

The Nadal-Federer detente. Was there some kind of a Yalta conference where they agreed on how to divvy up the majors in the post Djokovic era?

 

Isn't it almost a reality that they've eclipsed not only their own generation (which doesn't completely line up, given their age difference), but basically the entire one after them? They've created two generations of Andy Roddicks.

 

if we include djokovic as one of the ones who did the eclipsing and not one of those being eclipsed then that's almost fair, though there are a couple other players who arguably achieved more than roddick (murray, wawrinka). i guess my point is federer and nadal have been so amazing there's no real need to exaggerate, and djokovic holding the number one ranking for more than four years during the federer-nadal era is even more impressive in light of their greatness.

 

rafa lost to thiem in the quarterfinals at madrid in straight sets. will lose the number one ranking to fed next week.

 

no.

 

Thiem-Zverev final should be good. Maybe Thiem will be the spoiler at the French too.

 

guess it's official

1. R. Federer
2. R. Nadal
3. A Zverev

 

was surprised that sascha relatively easily disposed of thiem. was expecting a closer match. that's a final we could see a lot in three or four years.

 

yeah I was hoping for a bit more from Thiem against Zverev. Nadal may play Thiem again in Rome.

 

rafa through to the semis in rome, though he did drop the first set to fognini. next up his first match against djokovic in over a year.

 

It would be great if Djokovic could work his way back into the top 10.

 

rafa beat him today but the first set was a challenge. djoker now leads their head to head rivalry 26-25. he also leads federer head to head 23-22. pretty amazing really, and a solid argument that we've been witnessing not just the two, but possibly the three greatest tennis players ever.

 

Djokovic will drop in the rankings this week. Meanwhile after being broken in game one, Nadal is taking Zverev apart in Rome.

Nadal will head to Paris looking dominant but maybe not invulnerable after his Madrid loss.

 

zverev really turned that match around, nearly bageling rafa in the 2nd, and nadal ended up being bailed out by an hour long rain delay in the third set that helped him regain his composure and eventually pull out the win for his 8th rome title. federer must be slightly amused by all this jockeying for the number 1 spot while he's not even playing.

 

Who's winning at Roland Garros? Rafa winning an eleventh title would be (or should be) outrageous. If he wins a couple more, he would have more than all but a few men's tennis players in history altogether just at the French open.