Updated.
February 03, 2020 13: 23:14
To win a grand slam, you have to win 7 matches.
And while that’s hard enough in a vacuum, for a lot of males’s gamers trying to be contenders over the past 15 years, a minimum of one, more likely two, and perhaps 3 of those matches will come versus a gamer who will go down in history as one of the best we have actually seen.
As we saw from 26- year-old Dominic Thiem in the Australian Open last, it practically takes a miracle to break through in this period.
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic have now won 52 of the past 60 major guys’s singles titles, including 13 in a row and counting.
That dates back to the 2016 United States Open, when Stan Wawrinka won his third slam, which itself followed Andy Murray’s Wimbledon title significant number 3 for him– a back-to-back effort that recommended the pack was capturing up. How foolish we were.
In the time given that, Wawrinka, Marin Cilic (twice), Kevin Anderson (two times), Dominic Thiem (three times), Juan Martin del Potro and Daniil Medvedev have actually come within one success of grand slam magnificence only to be denied by the Swiss, the Spaniard or the Serb.
For del Potro and Cilic, the pain is lessened by their standout wins at the 2009 and 2014 United States Opens respectively, but for many others, the last step to the top has actually proven too difficult to take.
Let’s walk to keep in mind some excellent tennis gamers who had the misfortune of being contemporaries of 3 of the very best tennis gamers in history.
The Australian Open bolters
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