Roger Federer’s exit from tennis marked the tip of an period and undoubtedly the beginning of the tip of probably the most distinguished interval within the historical past of males’s tennis the place the Swiss, along with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic – hailed because the Huge Three – received 63 of the final 75 Grand Slams. With Federer out, the battle reduces all the way down to Nadal and Djokovic to take their main tally ahead, however the duo face rising risk from the Subsequent Gen, who’ve slowly, however made their presence being felt. Carlos Alcaraz, who just lately received the US Open earlier this month, has been thought-about the most important risk for Nadal and Djokovic with specialists backing the 19-year-old to emulate the Huge Three’s Grand Slam feat. And Federer has given an easy verdict on Alcaraz’s probabilities.
It has been a stupendous season for the younger Spaniard the place he had began by defeating each Nadal and Djokovic on back-to-back days on the Madrid Open. He ultimately ended the Grand Slam season with a win in US Open the place he performed three consecutive five-setters and subsequently rose the world no.1 rating as nicely.
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The wonderful run has left many believing that Alcaraz has the power to drag off what Nadal, Federer and Djokovic has achieved in Slams. However Federer needs to attend and see how issues pan out for Alcaraz in his profession, saying that he would most likely wish to have that dialogue after the Spaniard has received five-seven Slams.
“You don’t wish to have that price ticket – ‘you’re the one who’s going to win 20-plus’, Federer has mentioned so,” he mentioned. “I believe that’s not truthful as a result of no one can predict that kind of quantity.
“When you attain perhaps 5, seven, you’ll be able to say like: ‘OK, now we will begin speaking. However we by no means talked about 20 with me. We at all times talked about perhaps you would attain 15 (to beat the earlier file, set by Pete Sampras). It simply begins to extend increasingly.”
Nevertheless, Federer does imagine that the subsequent technology gamers may have the power to get to the mark of 20 Grand Slams.
“, all the pieces’s sluggish these days. Indoors isn’t what it was once. It wasn’t like the sort of floor (pointing to a picket ground), the place it was like lightning.
“That’s why I believe there can be extra gamers sooner or later with I’d say five-plus slams. As a result of when you get on a roll, you’ll be able to keep on a roll. I do imagine sooner or later, in some way, there can be undoubtedly a couple of gamers with 20-plus Slams. I’m satisfied about that.”