Hardy
Senior Member
only BIG and FAT no sense here is talking about a player past his prime after turning 25
Djokovic before 2011 wasn't a factor at all in majors, he won one AO and another couple of finals played, he lost in slams to likes of Berdych, Tsonga, Kohlschreiber, Melzer, Tommy Haas, Roddick, not only to Federer and Nadal, so it's totally the opposite, prime Federer and your so called injury free Nadal never faced in these years prime Nole, this is why Nadal had so good h2h with him in the first part of his career. Then what happened, Djokovic changed his diet after 2010 because he was diagnosed with gluten intolerance, Vajda fixed his serve that was destroyed by Todd Martin (I bet you don't know anything about these details right?) and from 2011 to 2016 in majors he lost only to Nadal, Federer, Murray and Wawrinka, reaching slam final left and right, smashing Nadal several times even on his best surface, so his explosion has nothing to do with this idiotic injury narrative, he just peaked later than Nadal, after all every player can have different career trajectory. Peaked Nole is simply a better player than every Nadal's version outside of clay and there is nothing you can do about that.
By the way the only fact that you call scrubs players like Roddick, Hewitt or Safin says everything about your (in)competence in tennis. Del Potro, Murray, Hewitt got career ending injuries, not a dude that he's 33 and still able to run like a madman around the court for almost 5 hours.
Djokovic before 2011 wasn't a factor at all in majors, he won one AO and another couple of finals played, he lost in slams to likes of Berdych, Tsonga, Kohlschreiber, Melzer, Tommy Haas, Roddick, not only to Federer and Nadal, so it's totally the opposite, prime Federer and your so called injury free Nadal never faced in these years prime Nole, this is why Nadal had so good h2h with him in the first part of his career. Then what happened, Djokovic changed his diet after 2010 because he was diagnosed with gluten intolerance, Vajda fixed his serve that was destroyed by Todd Martin (I bet you don't know anything about these details right?) and from 2011 to 2016 in majors he lost only to Nadal, Federer, Murray and Wawrinka, reaching slam final left and right, smashing Nadal several times even on his best surface, so his explosion has nothing to do with this idiotic injury narrative, he just peaked later than Nadal, after all every player can have different career trajectory. Peaked Nole is simply a better player than every Nadal's version outside of clay and there is nothing you can do about that.
By the way the only fact that you call scrubs players like Roddick, Hewitt or Safin says everything about your (in)competence in tennis. Del Potro, Murray, Hewitt got career ending injuries, not a dude that he's 33 and still able to run like a madman around the court for almost 5 hours.