When you watch after Roger tennis, it’s just power hitting and some drop shots. It’s physical. Roger was a phenomenon, who never will be surpassed. It’s another level.
Yup for me novak wasn't consistent enough against lesser players to be considered goat.....fed could only be challenged by players who were near his level or were playing out of their skin on the day......FACTS
It's a shame that damn knee gave out. His level of tennis was still ridiculously high (even during his final 2021 comeback where he was shaking off some rust and trying to overcome movement problems with that dying knee) and probably could've lasted well into his mid 50s, it was that crazy.
Not so much his knee, but the psychological repercussion of 40-15, which he never healed from, this is the main reason he retired, the belief was gone, after this, mentally in a coma.
@@pauljohnson6019 Yes. He retired because his knee surgery in 2021 was a disaster, and he was 40. To say different is just trying to read someone else's mind
@@jeffreybartlett4899 but never like Roger. His entire game was explosive and pinpoint aggression. Never seen anyone like him. Rafa and Nole are baseline grinders. Roger was very unique.
@@jeffreybartlett4899 seriously? Novak is losing early right left and centre at 37 while Roger was playing like he was 10yrs younger and beating Top10, Top5, Top3.
The greatest mistake in Roger's career was not switching to that larger-headed racquet 10 years earlier, when basically the whole rest of professional tennis had switched over. Roger would have won at least five more majors had he done so, and possibly ten.
@@ben1147 I hear you, but he was never going to be competitive at the French because of Rafa, and it's just not possible for anyone to win three majors a year for 15 years.
Towards the end of his career I thought he got into too much trouble running around his backhand. At that point his backhand was great, and he was just a bit slower and couldn't recover to the other corner and it cost him so many points.
HUH? you must have rocks in your head. Novax has been struggling with next gen since he was 36. Roger at 38 stomped the 3rd greatest player of all in straight sets at nitto.
