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re: Is tennis the most unforgiving sport if you're 3rd or 4th best?
Posted on 6/11/23 at 8:09 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 6/11/23 at 8:09 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I think this was the golden age of tennis…if just one of Fed, Nadal, or Joker wasn’t around…one of them would probably have 35+ majors. As it is now they all have 20+.
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Posted on 6/11/23 at 8:25 pm to bgbam07
5 sets leaves not much room for variance.
Hence the cream more often rises to the top.
This is different than something like women's basketball in the 90s and 2000s where one or two teams monopolizes the limited elite talent available. There is still variance but the worst UCONN or Tennessee could play was better than the best anyone else could muster.
Hence the cream more often rises to the top.
This is different than something like women's basketball in the 90s and 2000s where one or two teams monopolizes the limited elite talent available. There is still variance but the worst UCONN or Tennessee could play was better than the best anyone else could muster.
Posted on 6/12/23 at 8:01 am to bgbam07
If you go back to '03, it is naturally stacked with Fed, Nadal, and Djokovic. If you got back to '83 on all of the majors there is alot more variance. You just had 3 guys so dominant.
I also think the surface plays a huge part. Wimbledon plays like a hard court now and clay used to be just for specialists. Now, everyone is a baseliner. I really wish Wimbledon would go back to the fast courts where serve and volleying could be employed more effectively.
I have a friend whose son in on the tour in doubles. Made it as high as about 50. Makes absolutely nothing, and can barely afford to travel.
I also think the surface plays a huge part. Wimbledon plays like a hard court now and clay used to be just for specialists. Now, everyone is a baseliner. I really wish Wimbledon would go back to the fast courts where serve and volleying could be employed more effectively.
I have a friend whose son in on the tour in doubles. Made it as high as about 50. Makes absolutely nothing, and can barely afford to travel.
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