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Originally Posted by 72off
ya i was on the fence about who the 1 and only true GOAT was, but then Fed went and won the Miami Open in 2017...
lol. that's pretty funny. you forgot to attribute the statement though. i.e. "-said nobody ever"
it is pretty insane what's going on right now. i watched that match and the first set was so back and forth and crazy right until the end. then fed started holding serve much more easily in the second set, but he got behind at i think it was 2-3 serving at 15-40 and he somehow didn't get broken. and nadal double faulted again and fed's backhand struck a few times, and that was the end of that.
i'm eager for djok and murray to come back to see how he does against them. will they be able to come back from injuries as seamlessly as fed has? if they do and return to their 2015-2016 forms, will fed be able to take them as he has nishikori, wawrinka, nadal, and everybody else except for some no-name Dolstoy (or whatever his name is) this year on his road to being 19-1?
should be interesting. the only downside is that it seems federer isn't set on being #1 and instead on playing for as many years as possible in as best a form as possible.
so he's skipping 2 Masters events and 2 500 pt tourneys, basically the entire clay court season, in order to focus on doing well at the french open.
that means we won't really get to see him play against novak and murray until at the earliest, the french.
the good news: he has 0 ranking points to lose from this break
the other good news: he already achieved #4 and is unlikely to be knocked down to #5 since if rafa kicks ass, the points would have to come from likely wawrinka so stan would drop to #5 leaving fed at #4.
the bad news: he won't win any points so very likely won't finish the year at #1, meaning he probably won't get back that ranking for any more weeks since defending 3/4 titles in 2018 early on is a big big ask with everybody back and playing well and fresh next year.
the other bad news: he MAY end up #5 at roland garros, which would be a big negative since he wouldn't have his own quarter and he'd then end up with a tougher draw.
here's to hoping if nadal kicks ass, which he likely will seeing as how the only person seriously beating him this year has been federer, the points go from stan->rafa and fed stays at #4.