Originally Posted by Jenny1986:
“I think issue is Cillic himself, not that a non big 4 player won. I'd love to see some new winners, but that would require the younger generation to finally step up and take it. The wait continues.”
“I think issue is Cillic himself, not that a non big 4 player won. I'd love to see some new winners, but that would require the younger generation to finally step up and take it. The wait continues.”
There may possibly be a non big 4 winner in this US Open and/or perhaps the 2017 Aussie Open regardless whether or not it's from the new generation.
Mid 2017 into 2018 we really ought to see the transition from the current era big 4 to the new generation taking over from mid 2018 (with Nadal, Djokovic and/or Murray still perhapd chipping in the odd grand slam title from that point).
Mid 2019 to onwards it's out of the question that the present era big 4 of Djokovic, Murray and Nadal from then until beyond their mid 30's will still almost totally dominate and sharing almost all the grand slam titles, olympic singles golds and masters 1000 titles between them. To think that Nadal will be able to thrash all comers before almost every grand slam semi final at 33 years of age only losing to Murray or Djokovic at worst the way he did in his mid 20's would be ridiculous to say the least. Nobody has ever dominated that old in the open era after all.
Murray and Djokovic will not be the overwhelming top 2 favourites for olympic singles gold in 2024. They'll be 37 then.







Obviously she's not being given a lot to work with, but I was expecting a bit more I think. Not over yet though.
