Some people got excited the day Rafael Nadal won his 21st Grand Slam title in Melbourne, which has since increased to 22, and Djokovic also has 21;
Both of them overtook Roger Federer in the race for the winning record.
Many of his fans wanted him to retire with some kind of statistical proof or certificate that he is the best tennis player in history and that is indisputable.
But this is not the case, and for the three tennis players Case is respected in the question of the greatest, for whom it matters.
Federer is more important than the question of the best in history, he set the standard.
Nadal and Federer.
The face of the tennis world, photo: EPA
The reference to tennis exists throughout history: William Shakespeare mentions tennis in the play "Henry V", and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina plays it.
The rules were drawn up in Birmingham around 1865, but what you see today at the top levels of men's tennis was invented by Roger Federer.
Regarding the technique and aesthetics of each of his shots, you can find explanations and demonstrations on YouTube, and in my opinion only a few have come close to this standard.
Second, when it comes to stability, he showed that a really good season is more than winning one Grand Slam, and a really great career lasts more than a decade.
Third, in terms of the integrity of the game - Federer appeared on the tennis stage when the sport still divided clay players, grass experts and those who are strong on fast courts, but he looks like a giant who meets with passion and talent a ball that is thrown at him from any surface.
There are still nuances, but I wish we'd see more clay players like Federer or grass players like Nadal.
All of these are related to the federal standard.
And yes, they both met it.
Federer.
Played the most aesthetic tennis, photo: Getty
And there were also the cultural standards.
Federer appeared in a world where there is a feeling that in order for tennis to flourish, it needs a big American star or a successful British star at Wimbledon.
Today these are nonsense.
The industry thrives even if its stars are from Switzerland or Serbia.
And no less important - the feeling that a great rivalry needs "a little bad blood."
This is true in the neighborhood, not in Olympus.
Federer fought his good friend Nadal and Djokovic with full respect and good spirit.
Not to decide the question of the greatest of all but to explore what level you can reach in tennis.
Federer.
Proved to what level it is possible to reach, photo: AFP
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