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Quote from: Theones on February 03, 2023, 11:30:47 PM

me too - for me Nadal has always been a legend to me.
YOu are right he would not give up that easily - but that too is true -sometime the injuries are fatal and they kick off the players off their career.

It's not just about giving up, you have to see how Federer is still trying to be able to play and win the GS especially Wimbledon because it is his favorite surface but that didn't happen because an injury forced him to retire because his body was no longer able to compete and maybe Nadal would be the same but retiring with such great achievement is something to be proud of.

But I guess his injury is not that worst compare to Federer or to Andy Murray, so with proper exercise, he could rehabilitate his body to still compete at least one GS in this calendar year and chase another title and get one ahead of Djokovic.

So we will see, I doubt that he will retire though, of course his name is in the discussion of the GOAT.
But so far, Djokovic is still far from retiring so he can still more GS from Nadal, but for sure Rafa has a target for this year's slam.

His injury is not so serious. But what I think is it is already hard for him to actually perform at the top level considering his age. He is already having to play against a lot of younger and agile players. It is going to be harder for him if he has to play with even a little bit of injury on top of that.

Djokovic is not retiring soon. But we have to remember that he is also 35 years old. Sometimes it is actually hard to believe that Rafael Nadal is 36 years old and Novak Djokovic is 35.

Quote from: dezoel on February 03, 2023, 09:16:59 PM

There is no doubt right now Novak Djokovic is physically and mentally the best player in Tennis, and he can do better in near future and with the absence of Alcaraz things were never been difficult for him because as he gives his best I have feeling Alcaraz is also not near his game and needs good time for giving him challenge mostly new generation players are not having consistency which is problem and surely Novak Djokovic can take good advantage of this all.

As we have too many players for the future but mostly are not giving results which were expected things are looking not impressive, and maybe we will have these few legendary players last as those are dominating and have too many records in this game few months back there were few rumours about Medvedev and Tsitsipass but now these both are declined in performance and quality.

This year's grand slam is going to be really competitive between a lot of great players like Rafael Nadal, Djokovic, Alcaraz, etc. It is going to be very competitive. I know that right now Novak Djokovic is the best player. Actually, I think there is going to be a draw between Djokovic and Alcaraz if we talk about who is the best player right now. And I honestly think that if it comes down to Djokovic versus Alcaraz in the final, it is going to be really interesting.

I will still say that Alcaraz might be the winner because he is younger and that is going to help him a lot against older opponents like Djokovic