And further breakout of that dominance of Federer from pre-Djokovic era (before 2011). 22 Grand Slam finals and the win loss recordVReddy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 5:50 pmI think its important to qualitate that Federer`s early domination was aided by considerable lower quality of contemporaries.
Djokovic won his 2nd grand slam in 2011. By that stage, Federer reached 22 Grand Slam finals and pocketed 15 titles.
A quick look at the quality of opponents in those finals for you before Djokovic came onto the scene
1. Philippoussis (1)
2. Safin (1)
3. Roddick (4)
4. Hewitt (1)
5. Agassi (1) - close to retirement though
6. Baghdatis (1)
7. Nadal (7)
8. Gonzalez (1)
9. Djokovic (1)
10. Murray (2)
11. Soderling (1)
12. Del Potro (1)
The class opponents - Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and possibly Del Potro - he faced them all from mid-2006 and onwards.
I think we all agree that the likes of Philippousis, Safin, Hewitt, Baghdatis and so on.. Difficult to compare across generations but that they would not even be on par with the 2nd rung of talent in world tennis today.
So Federer dominating that phase to win 7-10 titles before a Nadal came onto the scene - Its no way less but important to factor that in.
Vs Nadal / Djokovic / Del Potro: 3/9
Vs rest 13/13
Frankly given the high IQ of this forum, its a bit of travesty that we are even putting Federer in the same league as Djokovic if we are purely focused on the Tennis aspects. I guess that shows why we have AAPTards, Bhakts, Congresstard (?) in political spheres - no matter how far we go, having strong bias is just part of human nature.