The 2024 season started with victories for the new batch of tennis players called to dominate the circuit. If last year it was Carlos Alcaraz who avoided Novak Djokovic’s total by defeating him in the Wimbledon final, in January it was Jannik Sinner who broke the Serbian’s massive winning streak at the Australian Open.
Despite everything, the numbers speak for themselves and it is clear Nole continued to be a great dominator of the circuitand the one that generates the most opinions and headlines.
The last person to comment on him was Andy Roddick, who did not spare his praise for number 1although very much in its own way.
“I feel like Novak Djokovic is the man who broke the Beatles, he’s like the Yoko Ono of tennis.. He is the one we don’t want, we don’t need. We had the rivalry, we had the left-handed and the right-handed,” said the former American tennis player on his ‘Served with Andy Roddick’ podcast.
“We had different styles. Then suddenly this cyborg robot appears, but also someone who plays with a lot of emotions who comes in and says: ‘I’m complete. You can’t get past me, you can’t make me worry, I’ll answer them.’ It’s strange. “It’s almost as if the kind of mainstream fan who doesn’t focus on tennis is kind of mad at him for that,” he added.
Roddick has not shied away from the debate about who is the best tennis player in history. “What’s amazing about this whole GOAT debate is that we’ve never come to a definitive resolution. The same thing happens in basketball, with Lebron and Jordan. There’s always something to argue against the numbers, some say. But math doesn’t care about fans’ feelings or a player’s vaccination status,” said the Nebraskan, who believes the record speaks for itself.
“If you line up the resumes of the Big 3 and pick one other than Djokovic, you’re crazy. It is very simple. Then you can argue that you prefer one or the other, but to believe that Novak is not the GOAT based on the numbers is to be ignorant,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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