The US Open 2023 continues to draw closer to its dream finish. Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic are steadily moving towards the rivalry that the entire tennis world wants and that is generating passion among fans, especially after what was seen in the Wimbledon and Cincinnati finals.
It can be said that tennis is currently experiencing a ‘boom’, although some think that it is not a good time for the racquet sport. This is the case of Toni Nadal, who believes that “the top players of a few years ago are better than today. Previously, tennis players were noticeably better and more competitive than in the current moment,” he wrote in his column in the newspaper ‘El País’.
For Christmas, “the speed at which it is played now encourages many mistakes to be made, leading to thread loss easier, more complicated to chain different tournaments playing well—only Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz can do it—and these shocking casualties happen too often”.
Rafa Nadal’s former coach and uncle went further and made the following comparison. “I share the exercise that my children and I did with the best of the current and past seasons. We put Federer and Alcaraz as the leaders then and now. The rest of the panorama revealed to us gave a fairly clear advantage in favor of the previous decades.“and proceeded to do his particular 1×1.
“The current Djokovic is less than five or ten years ago. No doubt, Rafael will surpass Medvedev. Murray is better than Zverev and Wawrinka is better than Ruud. Del Potro will pass Rublev and I think it’s clear that Ferrer will do the same to Rune. An impossible exercise, of course, but it can be enlightening when it comes to understanding current tennis a little and the unexpected defeats in the first rounds of big tournaments”.
Source: La Verdad
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