“These guys seem to have gone by me!” John McEnroe admits that Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal have defined an era of tennis that is unlikely to be repeated
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Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and John McEnroe
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal, these three players are undoubtedly the three greatest tennis players of all time, the three of them combined have been rivals for a long time running now and all of them have 63 grand slam titles between them. The big three have dominated the men’s game for quite some time now.
There is no doubt that Djokovic, Federer, and Nadal are the three greatest players of all time and every tennis fan seems to think so. The community has been divided between who is the best player out of these three. Rafael Nadal leads the grand slam tally with 22 titles to his name and he is closely followed by Novak Djokovic and Federer with 21 and 20 titles respectively.
John McEnroe talks about Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal seems to be running away with the GOAT debate but Djokovic and Federer are right on his trail, American legend, John McEnroe sat down in his latest interview and talked about the GOAT race and how his affecting the sport is completely different from how Federer, Djokovic and Nadal have revolutionized tennis.
McEnroe said, “I said it in 1984 or ’85, so it was a while ago, before these other guys Federer Nadal and Djokovic. These guys seem to have gone by me but at that moment my hair was a different color with different times, the end of the wooden racket era, but at that moment I thought I’d taken the game to another level.“
“Well, six kids later, I’m better than I was. I wouldn’t call that my strong suit. I sort of look at things fairly black and white although it ends up being sort of a gray area like when push comes to shove. I mean look at politics, everyone’s on one side or the other but it seemed like we’d be better off somewhere in the middle and I think in general that would be better the way to lead life,” McEnroe added further.
The big three are probably the greatest thing to happen to tennis, Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic have played a big hand in putting tennis on the map and make it a sport that is famous worldwide.
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Akshit Bhatnagar
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